Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-07-07
BIENNIAL CONVENTION AT DENVER.

States was held at Denver, Vol. Neuheh-
day two weeks. A small army OF uahera,
made up Of the young society girls OF
Denver worked hard in seating the
3, 800 women who filed the Broadway
Theatre from orchestra to dome, Lit
tie girls, gowned like the ushers 10
snowy white, acted as pages and dis
tributod programmes. Delegates wore
present from 40 sStarea The theatre
waa handsomely drapsd with bunting
and with banners of blus and white
ths federation colors, but its best deco
ration was 10 the delegates who filled
every available bit even OF standing
room. Here aud there. like lonely
rock in garden of flowers, was to oe
aeen man. but there wore less than
a dozen in all. i
The opening speech was by Gov.
| Adams, who said Livingstone found
| in the mountains of Central Africa a
tribe who inscribed over the doorway
| of each hut 'Sbp ruleth bere.' Savage
instinct grasped principle Of equality
md Justice II has taken ages OF Chris
tian civilization TO discover. Over the
| gateway of Colorado stands the same
sentiment Are men OF tho West more
chivalrous and just than their Eastern
brothers? Is il true that liberty has
clearer vision in high altitudesp Ger.
tain 1t ia that the Mountain States OF
Colorado, Utah and Wyoming only rec.
| ognize that the Creator plated man and
woman side by aide 10 Eden. Colo
RADIO has added soprano to the sym
phony of political liberty, and we offer
our laws, our homes, schools and insti-
tutians as object Lessons to those who
doubt the results of equality before the
law. We have had no awakening from
the fond dream that tho union OF the
yigor, physical force and courage OF
man with the higher moral and spirit
ual qualities NJ woman will weave for
our children fairer destiny than has
yet come to the race.
"Our Stats superintendent OF schools
10 a woman, and no oilice in the State
10 conducted with more ability. Half
the county superintendents, and nearly
all the trustees are women, and VIZ chal-
lsnge comparison with tue public
school system OF any State 10 the
Union. While here gather your own
testimony; upon our streets you will
not see as many long haired men and
shOrt-haired women aa in Boston; our
women have not diverted their ratron-
age from the dressmaker to the tailor.
Selfishness will pipe its lament, and
when the politicians realize that equal
suffrage doubles the number OF candi-
dates for oliiue without increasing the
number of Offices they will anathema-
tie the expansion Of the ballot aa Wig
orousy as Lord North cursed the mem
DRY of Columbus for discovering land
that had cost him so much trouble,
treasure and defeat.
| lsrsn nd
In Colorado she would not writs of
women aobbing out of sight because
men made the laws for the influence Of
women's votos-and olubs--can mould
almost dictate-any new legislation.
When the Israelites were broken with
corruption and tlissensions God gave u
woman to judge them; Deborah ruled
them for 40 years, and the Bible adds,
then they had rest. have never besn
clear whether the rest came az result
of her rule or because her reign wns
ended. But 10 our land come rest or
J come dissension, Deborah is to reign.
, The woman'e liberation movement.
which under the shadow of the Rocky
Mountains has crystalized into legal
, acknowledgment. 10 not u transient i'm
pulse; we stand at It's cradle, but few
of us will live to ses the limits il will
reach. Liberty, unclaimed at Runny.
mede made the circuit Of the globe sc
) with equality, it is not summer rip
plu upon tho political seq, but strong,
swelling tide, whose waves will wash
every civilized shore, Had the single
word sex been inserted in the FIT
t teenth Amendment believe our nation
would be generation in advance of itt
t present position on the problema Of
. moral and municipal reform. Women't
: clubs are centres from which radiate
. electric currenta of moral aud politica
| reform. They have broadened theil
= own horizon aud chat of the race; they
4 have organized the energy and intellect
t OF woman and directed them into every
: fisld of good. Woman's sphere is Mt
o longer confined to The washtub, thu
kitchen, or parlor, but il now the grea
whirliug globe with its responsibilities
and glories.
' "In tine name of the women we lore
welcome you 10 State where thu
word male has been eliminated from
/. the laws and the word 'obsy' from tn,
marriage service.
In his welcome TO tho delsgate
Mayor McMurray said; "We recognize,
/, that the power of woman is advancin,
like the incoming ocean tide that can
. not be stayed by obstaoles thrown IN it
!, way, but it is always eyerted for good
I. for the upbuilding OF the cause OF hu
o mainly, for that which will make tn
world better. We eau assure you tina
the privileges and responsibilities o
citizenship have not lowered gu
j. women, hut have exalted our men, tina
!, the power Of public sentiment az OK
: erted in tbs affairs of government b.
:, women has been instruincntal in raisinI
= the plane Of citizenship, and securing
q the enactment and enforcement Of goot
"a laws "
,r Mrs Platt, president OF the Denyo
A. club, said: eve do not weloome yo
N an women of the East, OF the North o
a the South, but as women OF the coun
rs try, because you represent the Unite
States, the Grunge groves of Florida
the pins-grown shores OF the Norther
lakes, because of the women OF til
I'd blue and the women of the gray, bt
10 cause you represent the graves that be
I'd long TO both of us-the country tia
A. has Dewey from Vermont, Fitzhug
8 Leo from Virginia, IlohHon fro,
r Alabana-bscause you represent a
as that is glorious in these grput Unite
States. For this week our city ia YOU
to command; we have sent our Chi
dren TO tbs country, and promised OF
! husbands that II they will etfaco them
~ selves during the day they can liste
{, to you in the evenings, and wo hay