The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-03-02
FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE
Account of National Convention in
Washington.
BRA1NY WOMEN THERE.

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BRAINY WOMEN THERE.
Mrs. j. Fred. Meyers Writes q Descriptive
Letter for The Review. Continued In
Next Issue.
WASHINGTON, DC
MIR. EDITOR
Knowing you are Interested in all
movements that are avowedly for the
interest of mankind, both male and te-
male, / wish to give you a more dffinite
account of the success at ending the
National Woman Suffrage Convention
that has been III session in this city for
the last week, than you can obtain from
the press notes that are sent through
out the country. Whatever may b ethe
individual opinion of the people in this
country as to the feasibility of political
equality of both sex. 1 think no person
a see the remarkable interest that
thai has been taken in this convention.
the immense crowds ihae have In Ong-l
ed the doors of the church when the
meetings were held, and could hear the
brainy speeches from their platform
and read the account of the ovation
TIL q was given their leader, Miss Susan
b. Anthony, at the close oi the fifty
years service she has given to the cause
She received an ovation, the llk of
which was never given to an American
woman, or to any woman i'd the world,
save Queen. Victoria at her Jubilee
No person, 1 repeat, could take in the
events of last week with realizing that
the womans' suffrage movement has
come to stay" Like the old Adolf
ton movement when William Lloyd
Garrison said Il will be heard" These
women Will be heard, and they will in
terest enough people III The country,
both men and women G):lls, our
rulers to listen and act.
copy a condensed account from the
Washington Star, Il conservative city
paper, TUESDAY, Feb. 13th).
The attendance at the Womans
Suffrage meeting has Increased large
ly from day to day since the opening of
the convention. At the evening SEES
sion there has not been even standing
room.
Lille Devereux Blake, who was the
only formidable candidate against Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait, but who be
ing a keen politician, saw that things
were not coming her way this time, in
a neat speech to the convention, with
drew her name, which left the field
practically clear to Mrs. Gait for, the
presidency of the association. A ballot
for nomination was taken, and with q
dozen scattering ones, Mrs. Gait had a
clear $50 majority out of a possible 2S5
Votes SO it was moved to make her
choice unanimous which was done with
a rush and a.hurrah.
Miss Anthony was made a committee
f OF n to present Mrs. Gait to the con-
vention. The women went wild as
Miss Anthony erect and alert, with her
snow white hair banded smoothly about
her face, walked to the front of the
front of the platform, holding the hand
OF her young co worker of whom she is
extremely fond, and of whom she ex
s poets great things. Miss Anthony's
eyes were tear-dimmed and her tones
were uneven, as she presented to the
!. convention its choice as a leader, and
paid her tribute of praise to the woman
who had been her fright hand man
9 for so many years. 1t was such a trib
3 ute as most people get only after the
j sun of another world dawns upont them
1t was a tribute freighted with love anG
, tender solicitude, and rich with remin.
%iscences of the past and full of hope fol
the future of Mrs. Gait and her work
Suffrage is not longer a theory bu'
an actual condition and new occasion!
bring new duties. There newer duties
e these changed conditions, demand
a younger heads and fresher hearts. Ii
Mrs. Gait you have my ideal leader.
present to you my successor"
s BY this time half the women wer,
using their hendkerchiefs on their eyes
and the other half were waving hand
kerchiefs in the air. Mrs. Gait sale
quickly, Your president if you please
9 but Miss Anthony's successor, never
There is but one Miss Anthony and sht
could not have a successor Mucf
moved Mrs. Gait made a brief but
strong talk to the convention, pledgins
herself and her energies to the organi
cation.
Miss Anthony was by reclamation
elected honory president, and now de.
l clares she ranks Mrs. Gait. This gives
the organization two honory presidents
Mrs. Cady Stanton beng the other. In
the history of the National Woman's
t Suffrage Association it has had but two
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