The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-17
CONFERENCE ENDED
WITH A BUSINESS SESSION TODAY
EQUAL SUFFRAGISTS WILL
ADJOURN.
INTEREST IN THE SESSION
REMAINS UNABATED TO THE END
ELOQUENT ADDRESSES FOR
THE DAY.
THE CLUB WOMAN ExTOLLED.
To Her the Speakers Look for the
Emancipation of the
Sex.

The equal suffrage conference came
to a close last evening, and already
the visitors have begun to scatter.
Susan B. Anthony, who was listener
in the afternoon session. left last night
for Madison, where she will speak this
evening in the same kind Of con-
ference as has been in progress here.
No previous suffrage convention has
attracted the hearing as has this, and
immense audiences gathered to hear
the principal speakers. All the ses-
sions were we'll attended, but the evening
meetings, in which the visitors Of the
National association spoke were linn
tied only to the capacity of the house.
Another great audience crowded last
evening to hear Rev. Anna Hokard
Shaw, and this brilliant orator swayed
her listeners to tears or laughter, and
moved them by the spell of her mag
netism. The conference of the national
officers with the state convention has
been a great means of education, and
the cause of suffrage was never so
thoroughly exploited in this communi-
ty. The convention will wind up with
a business meeting of the state asso-
citation this morning, and time will
tell what will be the result Of the con-
ference
Rev. Anna Shaw spoke on the Fate
Of Republics" last evening. She made
brilliant address, teeming with good
things. Her gift for anecdote is only
second to her power of description,
and these fall behind her logic. With
them all, she Yields a good-natured
sarcasm that never fails of telling, and
she wins her point by producing a
smile. To infuse the golden rule into
citizenship and the Decalogue into the
laws Of the country, she declared the
necessary and best thing for the good
of the republic. She seemed to cover
the whole ground of woman suffrage,
both as to the aspirations of it's sup
porters and the opposition of it's enc
mics. She expatiated on the moral,
temperate, religious, pacific and law
abiding superiority of woman and
looked for the ideal republic developed
along these lines, on which lie the
weakness and strength of republics
Miss Shaw is graphic and picturesque
in her language, and her address was a
fitting close to a memorable woman's
meeting. The exercises preceding her
discourse consisted of the invocation
by DR.. D. N. Beach, of Plymouth, and
violin solo by Miss Stella Griswold,
accompanied by Miss Helga Olson.
THE DAY SESSION.
The Woman Suffrage convention took
up the threads of it's discussion as to
WOman's place in public affairs yes
terday at a point consistent with the
position defined by the speakers of the
day before. Two meetings occupied
the attention of the delegates.
While the public was being enter
tanned and instructed in the audito-
rum by programme speakers, the
state executive committee was in SEES
sion and making up the executive
board. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait pre-
sided. The following were the officers
elected: President, Mrs. Cora Smith
Eaton; vice president, Mrs. G. F. Lutz,
of Wells; corresponding secretary, Mrs.
Mary Dudley Greeley; recording secre-
tary, Mrs Hanna Egleston, Wykoff;
treasurer, Mrs. Antoinette ST. Pierre,
st. Paul Members of the executive
committee Mrs. Cora Smith Eaton,
Mrs. Julia B. Nelson, Red Wing; Mrs.
Julia Moore, Wells; Mrs Roxana Will
son, Lake City; Mrs. Harriet Arm
strong, Luverne; Mrs. Sanford Niles,
Miss Martha Scott Anderson, Mime
apolis; Mrs. S. V. Root, Hamline; Mrs.
E. L. Crockett, Winona.
A meeting of the officers and COM
mittees will be held this morning at
$50 o'clock in the Woman's Council
room, court house, to transact business
and outline the work for the ensuing
year
The attendance on the programme was only
fair and was interesting for its discussion
of the two questions, The Relation OF ire
Interests Of Women as Affected by the Pro-
posed New City Charter The session was
not without the unexpected, and Fret San
ford, while in the midst of her brief speech,
on Disposition of Garbage" administered
public gatherings. As she talked she SAID
many things that pleased her audience, and
the women did not hesitate t. break in cn Ter
discourse and interrupt her progress with APP
plause. This happened two or three times I'M
til finally Prof. Sanford remarked: "Frlenos,
don't interrupt please. l have only limited
time at my disposal, and l had rather vou
would wait until finish" The rebuke Was
gently expressed and gracefully taken.
Miss Hay was chairman of the programme
and pushed it through with eXped' ti)n The
opening speaker was Mrs. G. B. Willett, who
had to say for the club mo cement that 1t wa:
as the little leaven that leaJeaed tho Whole
lump. Its tendency is to broaden women, to
strengthen and invigorate their minds, to be
as the preparatory school fpr the wide fed
of effort when they snail take definite