St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-02-14

The Department of the Potomac
6. A. R., gave a banquet at thu
j Ebbitt house in honor OF Comman
/ der in chief Albert D. Shaw, who
: was attending the 32nd animal en-
campment here. They were sere
naded by the Marine Band. Sena
tor Thurston, who spoke for the
President, said, "the President wields
no scepter and wears no crown, yet
he has exercised greater powers than
emperors or kings. We are ready
to meet foes on one side Of the line
and on the other. Wecan fight them
in the canebrakes of the Philippines
and in the Senate of the United States
and so long as the flag flies, with
VIM. Mckinley and his boys in blue
keeping it in the air, it means it is
the same flag you fought for. 1t
TRANQUILITY floats, the unconquered
flag of the greatest nation on earth. "
Rep. c. E. Little6eld of Maine spoke
on "Our Couutry's Future" He be-
lieved in accepting George Dewey's
word rather than that of Aguinaldo,
the dictator, despot and assassin.
Commander Shaw said that their Or
der was "a years old and the largest
patriotic order in the world and is
glorious in it's girth and grain of
lofty patriotism and heroic valor.
The 32d annual convention of the
Woman's Suffrage association opened
at the Church of Our Father with
about 400 delegates and friends pre-
sent. Miss Anthony, wearing the
historic crimson sha wi, seemed bright
and hopeful, little weighed down
with her 80 years, She has a re-
markable faculty OF always enter
tanning her audience, by her original
and witty remarks on every subject
under debate. Miss Anthony and
Miss Anna Shaw were very happy in
the account of the Quinquennial In
ternational Council of Women in
London last year, where they went
as delegates. Miss Anthony's demo-
cratic way of describing their visit
to the Queen amused all. She told
the English ladies that if ten great
delegations of women from various
countries came to Washington, the
President and wife gave them re-
ception and SO they arranged one
with Queen Victoria. She said that
it occurred to the Queen that if so
many ladies took the trouble to come
to see her that she ought to give
them cup of tea and so she said,
y ohm, John, you must set table and
give them all cup of tea" but John
exclaimed, why there are ever so
many of them" But the Queen re-
marked, that is no reason, you
must do it, and set as nice one as
you cam" so John did as he was told
and they had grand time and when
they met countesses they did not feel
any different from what they would
from other people. Miss Shaw told |
OF the great ovation they gave Miss
Anthony when she rose in the packed |
hall to address them; wave after
wave of applause greeted her for
several minutes, and she was the
queen of the meeting. The reports
of the delegates from the various
states was interesting. The treas
urer stated that in 1899, 40 states
and territories paid dues, being a
gain Of FIVE states over last year.
The largest dues come from New
York, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Mas
sachusetts. Not an officer in this
association ever receives a dollar for
salary, said Miss Anthony, and when
we go junketing. the money comes
from the pockets of our husbands,
which brought out so much laughter
that she said the we meant Mrs.
Colt and some of the ladies who have
rich husbands. She has been a
champion beggar for woman for
nearly FIVE years and now she expects
to resign and retire on her usual
salary. There have been many able
papers presented at many sessions of
the meeting.
The D. A. R. Society, through its
President, Mrs. Manning, and Mrs.
Senator Fry are urging Congress to
set apart lot fora Continental Hall
here. Rep. Grosvenor created good
deal OF amusement in a speech, show.
ing the absurdity of the Irish in try
ing to involve us in war with Great
Britain on the Boer question. Some
OF the newspapers have declared that
the Republicans would be obliged to
vote in favor Of the Beers, whether
they thought they ought to express
sympathy or not, because they had
so many constituents either Irish or
Dutch. The question was asked did
we wage war with European coun-
tries because some one wished to be-
come republic, Greece, Poland, Ar
menla ETC.! Yet there were Poles,
Armenians and some of those people
constituents in this country? Well
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