The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-01-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
Our Special Correspondent Con-
tributes Another We'll Written
Article.

Article.
The National Womans Suffrage
Convention has been IN session here
during the most of the past week
and will continue till the middle of
the present one.
A believer induced me to accom-
pany her to one of the meetings on
Saturday night and I came home
knowing pretty nearly how it feels
to be talked to DEATH They began
at s and kept it up till IL O'Clock.
A number of bright women said
wise things and some were other
wise.
Susan B. Anthony presided
groomed in q handsome black silk
with lavender vest and balloon
sleeves. Her clear cut kindly face
looks just as shrewd and no older
than it did twenty years ago when
| first saw her although she is get
ting far on into the seventh decade.
Mrs. Manning, niece Of Roscoe
Conklin, reported progress for pOs-
Louis. Mrs. Stetson, a daughter of
Lyman Beecher, read an original
poem. She is the ''poet of the Pa
cifc, as well as a preacher ana is
as keen as a razor and bright as
mirror but has a thin crooked little
face, dark as an Indians and no
figure at all.
The famous New Yorker, Llllie
Deyeraux Blake, sat on the platform
superbIy coStumed but growing fat
and gray haired.
Miss Annie Shaw, the only wo-
man eyer ordained by the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, was present,
looking like a silver crowned cherub
with her fluff Of white hair and her
dimpled cheeks. Each passing year
seems but to add another charm to
this wonderful woman. She has
graduated in law, medicine and
theology, and is one of The braniest
women of the 10th century able to
pack the largest church or hall to
the outermost door.
The young son of Governor
Hughes, of Arizona, made an i'm
passioned boyish speech saying that
just as soon as he was old enough to
deposit ballot his vote should be
given for equal rights for his, mother
and sisters, with himself. The dele
gate from North Carolina made one
of the good points of the evening,
MEN," said she, tell Gus that poll
tics are too corrupt for us to sully
our purity with, that it will unsex
and degrade US to go to the ballot
| box and vote once q wear; but they
seem to forget that we have to live
for 365 days in the year with those
who have made politics what they
are. Let men be better and politics
will be made pure. .
The observed of all observers was
a little Indian maid of 5 or 6 years
OF age who showed the restless &C.
tivity of her race by running up and
down the aisles and occasionally
going on the platform and leaning
trustfully up against "Aunt Susan
or climbing up into the lap of hel
adopted mother, Mrs. Clara Colby
wife of General Colby, of Nebraska
This little Sioux Indian has sadly
interesting history. -Four or fv,
years ago during the F'ghos
dances among the Indians all he,
relatives were killed by white sold
iers at the massacre of Wounded
Knee" Two days after the murd
erous attach this child, babe o
only a few months, was found nest
ling up to the frozen breast of it
dead neither. Its life having beer
preserved through the awful cold
because the dying squaw hat
wrapped it in nearly all of her owl
poor apparel.
When | said to a Congressman
"Why in the name Of liberty anC
humanity don't you recogniz
Cuba?'' he answered, "because thi
is u presidential year," and then h
told me that it was quite unlikel
that recognition would be granted
for many months If Mt nU for th