Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-02-01
WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS
Their Thirtieth Annual Convention
and Fiftieth Anniversary.
fHE ADVANCE OF THE MOVEMENT
Many WelI-known Women VIII
Make Addresses.
TWO FEMALE LEGISLATORS

The thirtieth annual convention and tho
nftieth anniversary celebration of the Ma
uehai Woman's Suffrage Association will
oe heio IN the Columbia Theater February
II 10 H. inclusive. Especial Interest Will
attach 10 the occasion because IL will be
the hiuetn anniversary of the first con-
Vehtion ever held to demand equal rights
ior women In the announcement OF the
convention, which is signed by the follow.
ing well-known ladies: Elizabeth Cady
stanton, honorary president; Susan d. An
tnony, president; Anna Howard Shaw. vice
president-at-large: Rachel Foster Avery
corresponding secretary; Alice Stone Black
Well recording secretary: Harriet Taylor
Upton, treasurer; Laura Clay, Catherine
waugh McCuiloch auditors; Carrie Chap
nan Gait, chairman organization commit
tee, 1t Is stated that no reform was more
heeded and hone ever had greater obstacles
to overcome
Advance of the Movement
Continuing, the circular says:
The subsection of women was world
wide and of immemorial antiquity. 1t was
rooted IN the codes and customs of all
nations 1t was accepted by men and
women alike as the law of nature and of
Gcd- The thought or equality for women
their right to education to n chance for
selt-support. to the control of their own
persons. children, earnings and propertv-
had scarcely dawned upon even the most
progressive minds
The great movement has steadily adj
vanced. In this half century n new world
mas been created for woman. In home and
school, in church ard state I'm the courts
and fin the industries and professions n
reformation has been effected all the more
10 be valued because achieved through the
Sew processes of evolution rather than the
Marsh measures of revolution
In the political world the las, s,ro-,,
mold or prejudice, the rights of women
are being recognized. We have today n
- iresldent and Congress elected in part
py the votes OF the women. The constitu-
ttons OF wyoming. Colorado Utah and
Ieaho secure to women the full suffrage.
IN the two hundred and eighty-five in
corporated cities of Kansas women ex-
ercise municipal suffrage In twentv-two
states they possess school suffrage,
me twentieth century belongs equally
70 men ara women All citizens of the
United States, all friends from other coun-
tries. are cordially invited to Cooperate
IN celebrating the semi-centennial Of The
l n,s.,, convention held for what Wendell
Phiilps declared to be the most noomon-
tous reform that has vet heen la,,naraa
on the world ~
WeiI-knOwn Speakers
There will be three sessions daily ox-
cept Oh the day when the congressional
nearing will be held, when the morning
session VIII be omitted. An Interesting
feature of the convention will be the roll
cal or the years, in which the pioneers
ana tne younger members will respond to
the call of the year in which they became
Identified with the work of the enfran-
chisement OF women. Among the speakers
VIII be Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan p.
Anthony. Clara b. Colby. Lille Devereaux
Eiake, Ella Knowles Haskell, Rev. Anna
Toward SHAW, Mary Seymour Howells.
May Wright Sewall. DIR. Clara MarShan'
dean OF the Woman's Medical College of
Phiiadelphid; Rev. Florence Buck. Emma
EWlhs' Rev. Frederick A. and Carrie
Chapman Gait. Addresses will he made
also by two women legislators-Martha A.
b. CONNIE, member of the Colorado lezis-
lature. and Martha Hughes Cannon, mem
Der of the state senate of Utah
An executive committee meeting will be
held at y am. February II at room in
the theater. The headquarters will be at
the Hotel Regent.