Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-01-24

ent," and she pointed to dainty white |
silk crocheted shawl.
Now. Miss Anthony, that's rank her
esq.," said one young man, who has written |
about the association and its president for |
the past six years: will the proceedings |
Of this convention be in order if you make |
such a radical departure?"
mo red shawl, no reports" said the re-
porters. young women and men both.
Stunning a look of mock disappointment |
II am afraid I'll have to give up my new
shawl"
But later in the morning Miss Anthony
put on her new shawl, which would seem
to show that even such veteran suhragtst
as Miss Anthony may have still tinge of
vanity in her system.
Miss Anthony's Annual Address.
Miss Susan B. Anthony, the famous suf-
fragist and successor to Mrs. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton as the president Of the Ma
tional American Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation, delivered her annual address at
the session Of the convention last evening.
1t was mainly historical review of the
attempts made years ago to have the word
male eliminated from the fourteenth
amendment to the Constitution, which
would have the right Of suffrage open to
beth sexes. Miss Anthony described again
in an entertaining manner the time when
she tried to vote in Rochester and was put
on trial for the offense. She was fined 500,
but refused to pay it, and has never yet
been imprisoned in default of payment
Speaking of the present convention, she
said:
eve have never had go great a repre-
Sentation as have this week arrived in
Washington. This is the twenty-eighth suf-
frage convention held in Washington in
the last quarter of a century. The suffrag-
lists first thought to come to Washington
during the reconstruction days They en-
deavored to have the fourteenth amendment
not only give the right Of suffrage to every,
male citizen, but to every female citizen as
well, but they failed Of success"
There nv
they could best work to secure that which
they were striving for. One is the popular
method, which means that the local organ
iZatons OF the different states must pre-
vail upon their respective legislatures to
give them such legislation as will give
them their rights. The other is the nation
Upon Congress, and Miss Anthony explain
ed just how it would be done. 1t is the ma
tionai method that has brought so many
delegates to the capital city from all parts
Of the United States.
Philosophy of Woman Suffrage.
'The Philosophy Of Woman Suffrage"
was the subject of carefully prepared
paper by Mrs Clara B. Colby of this city.
| She divided her subject into three subdi-
visions, the harmony of woman suffrage
with the evolution of the race. with the
| evolution of nature, and with the evolution
| of woman herself. The development of
government and the substitution of rule of
reason for rule of rorce, the mastery of the
brain over physical force were best in
Dictated in the advance in the condition of
| mankind, and this advance had advanced
| woman as far as it had taken man.
1t was her opinion, she said, that the
| founders of the republic had foreseen the
] question. which today forced itself upon
| the consideration of all men. Mrs. Colby
said, in conclusion:
with a firm belief that the whole crea-
| ton is moving on under the operation Of
| beneficent and immovable laws of social
evolution, We know that there is to be
| that recognition Of the value Of the fem
| mime nature which shall extend to woman
! development in the government of the
! state. The woman suffrage movement will
| eventually be seen to have been not revo-
lutionary, but evolutionary, the orderly
| marshaling of the forces of progress
Miss Julie K. Jenney, recently admitted to
| the bar in Syracuse, n. Y, spoke on THE
| Law and the Ballot in Relation to Woman"
i Miss Jenney explained the real attitude of
| woman in the courts of law, and advo-
| Gated such changes women have gen.
| orally demanded.
Between Dnybreak and Sunrise.
Mrs. May Stocking Knaggs of Michigan
delivered address on the subject Be
| tween Daybreak and Sunrise, saying,
| among other things: To-day the world is
| awaking. Self-government for woman is an
| accomplished fact in three states of our
great republic. The sense of humanity is
astir. The doctrine is daily gaining ground
|
coordinate work of man and woman.
I'VE stand here tonight to avow our
faith in the ultimate application of the
principles Of republican government. We
| belive that each human being is whole,
single and responsible; that each human
unit is concerned in the social compact
which is formed to protect individual and
mutual rights.
lover how large part of the world has
woman been given measure of freedom
and no evil thing has happened. but much
good! Home ties are cemented. not loosened
Children are better born, not neglected.
Social evils controlled or eliminated,
not increased. Public order and prosperity
are promoted, not overthrown.
I'm proportion to our belief in the right
eousness of our cause, so ought orr faith
to be. If we are harneSSe6 in with the
eternal forces of right. We have nothing to
fear"
fornia read three Of her poems on
subjects particularly interesting to women
and shortly after the session adjourned.
Next Tuesday twenty delegates from the
suffrage convention will appear before The
judiciary committee of the United States
Senate and ask that the states be pro-
| hibited from disfranchisng women, ard q
like number will appear before a commit
tee from the House and ask for the pass
| age of the sixteenth amendment 20 the
Constitution.
Notes of the Convention.
A striking figure of the National Ameri
can Woman Suffrage Association is Miss
Laura Adelia Gregg of Kansas, one of the
national lecturers. Miss Gregg is a petite
brunette of almost Quaker Quietness o.
marEer, the daughter of farmer who
lives near Garnett. She is just out of hel
teens, and of thoughtful, studious nature
and newspaper woman. She is said to bt
one of the most forceful speakers and bes
organizers in the field, and has achieved
some distinction as lecturer. Miss Gregg
, is now organizing clubs in Oklahoma.
What is the relation of big sleeves t.
. woman's suffrage?" asked a cynical maj
who doesn't believe in either. If he would
attend the convention in the Church of Ou
Father he would find that the relation il
very close indeed. Most of the women il
attendance are stylishly and handsomel!
gowned. Even Miss Anthony has a hand
, some black silk gown, with big sleeves o
!. the most approved pattern. Miss Anthem!
> is always well gowned, however, and hal
some lovely old lace. which she wears witt
an air Lace is nothing, you know, unles
you have the manners of a gentlewoman
and that Miss Anthony has in every line o
= her energetic body and fine, high-bred face
! | a face that in profile is as clean cut as
, Greek cameo, except that the lips are