Evening star., 1896-01-21

Earrfet Taylor Upton.
| convention. They speak Of 1t in the most
| enthusiastic manner, and, with woman suf-
| frage steadily gaining ground. especially in
| the western states, they consider that the
outlook for the future Is brighter and more
encouraging than it has ever been since
the question of giving woman the right of
! ballot was first raised in the country.
! Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. the veteran
honorary president of the association. will
not be able to attend the sessions Of the
convention, but she has promised Miss An
| thony that she would send letter to be
| pected to devote considerable attention to
President Eliot of Harvard, and the state
ment he is said to have made that the bal
| lot is not bulwark of the republic. Rev.
Anna H. Shaw, who is one of the best
| speakers in the association, will also aim
| the shafts of her eloquence at the president
of Harvard, and between the two women
| it is quite likely that the fur will fly.
The officers of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association are as fol-
lows: Honorary president, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, New York; president, Susan B.
Anthony, Rochester. N. Y; vice president
corresponding secretary, Rachel Foster
Avery. Philadelphia; recording secretary,
| Alice Stone Blackwell, Boston; treasurer,
Harriet Taylor Upton, Warren, Ohio; aud
| itors, H. Augusta Howard, Georgia; Annie
L. Diggs, Kansas; chairman committee on
| organization. Carrie Chapman Gait, New
York. Local committees-Entertainm
Jennette M. Bradley; railroad rates, Mary
q. May; press work. Harriet Taylor Up
ton.
The Program I'm Detail.
The program Of the different sessions Of
the convention is as follows:
Thursday, January 23-Morning, 10
o'clock-Convention called to order by the
! president, Susan B. Anthony; roll call of
officers, vice presidents and state members
of the executive committee, Alice Stone
Blackwell recording secretary; minutes of
the closing session of the twenty-seventh
annual convention; announcement of COM
mitteeS on finance, courtesies, credentials
and resolutions; report of vice presidential
large, Rev. Anna Howard Shaw; report of
corresponding secretary, Rachel Foster
Avery; memorial hour beginning at IL 3D.
addre sses in memory of Ellen Battelle Del
trick Of Massachusetts, Frederick Dou-
glass and others; opening address by Rev.
Anna H. Shaw.
Afternoon, o'clock-Training School for
Organizers.
Evening, o'clock-Annual address of the
president, Susan B. Anthony; THE Phi
losophy of Woman Suffrage" Clara B.
Colby. Nebraska; Utah: Our New Star"
Rev. Anna Howard Shaw. vice president
at-large. Responses from Utahs Repre-
sentatives; Women as Legislators" Annie
L. Diggs, Kansas.
Morning 10 o'clock-Report of committee
on entertainments. c. Holt Flint, chair
man; report of committee on course of
study. Carrie Chapman Gait. chairman;
treasurer's report, Harriet Taylor Upton.
Discussion: THE Attitude of the Fully En-
franc hised Woman Toward the N. A. w.
S. A.
Afternoon, 2 o'clock-second session
Training School for Organizers
Evening, oclock-State presidents even
Ing: Arizona, L. c. Hughes; California,
Charlotte Perkins Stetson; Colorado, Mary
c. c. Bradford; District of Columbia, Ellen
Kansas. Katie r. Addison; Kentucky,
Laura Clay; Louisiana, Florence Huberwald; |;
Maine. Elizabeth U. Yates; Maryland,
Caroline H. Miller; Massachusetts, Henry
b. Blackwell; Massachusetts, National
Lavina A. Hatch; Michigan, May Stocking
Knaggs: Minnesota, Julia B. Nelson; Mis-
scurl, Addie M. Johnson; Montana, Harriet
Sanders; North Dakota. DR.. Cora Smith
Eaton.
Saturday morning, 10 o'ciock-Report of
organization committee. Carrie Chapman
Gait; reports from the field, Mary G. Hay,
Elizabeth U. Yates, Anna R. Simmons,
Emma Smith De Voc. Laura M. Johns,
Laura Clay, Laura A. Gregg; presentation
Of plan of work for 1896.
Afternoon, 2 o'clock-Parliament OF
methods.
Evening, o'clock-"The Relation of
Wage-Earning Women to Modern Indus
trial Problems" Rev. Anna Garlin Spencer,
Rhode Island. Presidents evening: Ne
braska, Clara B. Colby; North Carolina.
liamson; New Hampshire, Marilla NJ Rik-
Ger; New York, Mariana w. Chapman;
Oklahoma, R. w. Southard; Ohio, Caroline
Mccullough Everhard; Pennsylvania, Luz
cretia L. Blakenburg: Rhode Island, Mary
O. Arnold; South Carolina, Virginia D.
Young; South Dakota, Anna r. Simmons;
Texas. Elizabeth Goode Houston; Utah,
Corinne NJ. Allen; Virginia, Ora Lang
horne.
Sunday. January 2G-Religious service,
p.m.; sermon by Rev. Anna Garlin Spencer.
Subject, 'The Spiritual Significance of De-
mocracy and Woman's Relation to It."
Text, THE life is the light of men,"
Monday morning, 10 o'clock-Report of
southern committee, Laura Clay; report of
presidential suffrage committee, Henry b,
riet Taylor Upton; report of federal suffrage
committee, Mrs. E. p. Jenkins; report of en-
rollment committee, Louise Southworth: re-
port of congressional committee, Susan B.
Anthony.
Afternoon, 2 observation-disclosures to con-
stitution: election Of officers; resolutions:
place of holding the twenty-ninth annual
convention.
Evening, o'clock-"Our Unconscious Al
lies," Harriet May Mills, New York: ad-
dress. Charlotte Perkins Stetson, Califor-
mia; Between Daybreak and Sunrise" May
Stocking Knaggs, Michigan; THE Environ
ments of Woman as Related to Her Prog
ress," Ella Knowles Haskell, assistant at
torney general Of Montana; '"The Principle
of Universal Suffrage" Elizabeth BurriIl
Curtis, New York; address, Florence Howe
Hall; "The Sunflower Bloom of Woman's
Equality Virginia d. Young. South Caro-
lima.
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