The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-03-09
Great Ovation to Miss AAthonv.

AON oAao dd Pdueo du Gucu WILL, III ouGQuS1aSll n interest Iafay-
cite opera house wa the scene of the function, and it was filled asst
never was before. with the wealth and the fashion, the culture and learn
ing u every state in the Union, many representatives having travelled
1000 miles to attend the great rejoicing. Grouped on the platform ate
o'clock YER all the past national officers, who are the new ones,a also,
with the exception of the honored head-s1ssA Anthony retiring, and
Mrs Carrie Chapman Gait, taking her place. The decorations were
palms and four starred flag of the sufragists, and cut flowers, whose
fragrance filled the vast edfce.
The first number on the program was a song by John Hutchinson. The
venerable gentleman is the only one remaining of the great Hutchinson
family of singers and bell ringers, who toured the United States fifty
years ago, taking their partin the antislavery agitation and all the
crusades and reforms of the time. He belongs to the same day IS Miss
Anthony, and his song was his tribute to the woman to whose principles
he has so long subscribed.
Mr.. Hutchinson is the last of eight brothers and sisters who sang their
way into the hearts of the people of America, when slavery was claimed
to be a God given institution, and was upheld for a time by many persons
who were noted il church and state. We wonder now how this could be
but perhaps in fifty years W may wonder as much at the things that are
permissible today. The world is growing better; it is because our stand
ard of right and wrong is advancing as we go along, and we see with
clearer vision our duty to God and man. There were greetings from the
Nations Congress OF Mothers, National Council OF Women, and Inter
national Council the last being given by Mrs. May Sewall who has just
been elected to succeed Lady Aberdeen at the head of the largest organ
ization Of women lin the world, The professions were represented by
Rev Ida Hutton of the ministry, Diana Hrschler of the law, and DR..
Julia Smith in medicine. Miss Hutton was formerly of Des Moines and
has many friends and admirers in the state
The violinist was Joseph Douglass a grandson of Frederick Douglass.
The execution as fine, and he is a credit to The Douglass" He has a
head something like his grandfathers, or rs his might have looked, fit
had been shorn of it's glory. Who, that has ever seen that remarkable
man, can forget the Lionine head. The colored schools In Washington
have just celebrated his birthday, his wife making an address. The
grandson is much the backer of the two. I thought as saw him stand
ing among the beauty of Washington of the poor slave grandmother,
who used to walk seven miles after her long days work in the field, to
hold her Fred a few hour, in her arms and rock him to sleep. There
was always some little thing, a bit of cake, or a cast off toy hid
uOA III hl 0dlGolcdS Shawl IOuS U6lOFou ayISQU SQ0 a. 10 o DaCk, or
she had Ito be 1T her post when the horn blew, for work Miss Anthonys
first public appearance was SIN the antislavery cause and Mr. Douglass
attended her first convention fifty years age, and spoke sc eloquently that
a resolution they feared would not pass was carried without dissent.
Size said in her closing address, that nothing had moved her as the beautiful
tribute paid her by Mrs. franklin Cook, a gifted colored woman, who
thanked her in behalf of the race she had helped to free, and the sweet
music rendered by Douglass grandson.
One of the most beautiful features of the whole afternoon was the
presentation of eighty roses by four score little girls to Miss Anthony
following the original birthday poem, Loves Rosary" by Lydia Avery
Cooley Ward. Miss Anthony took many of the little tots in her arms
and kissed them. William Lloyd Garrison. a son of Garrison, the great
leader of the antislavery movement, sent a fine poem in her honor. She
had many costly presents that day, but the which brought tears to
her eyes was one sent by a woman, born a slave, living now in Alabama.
She sent her a postal order for eighty cents
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blach had come from England to be present at
the convention. She is a daughter of Mrs. Cady Stanton who was too
feeble to be present Mrs. Blatch represented her and made a fine ad-
dress. She dwelt O the close friendship that had existed for more than
fifty years, through evil and good repute when the movement seemed no
larger than a mans hand. At one of their first meetings the audience
consisted of six women and one boy. That boy, said Miss Anthony. with
atwinkle in her eye was the first governor of Wyoming. "You did NOT
always agree" continued Mrs Blatch, II can testify to that, and to the
long debates that came up on questions in your work, but you were al
ways loyal to each other and fast friends" No mention vas made of
TINS, u 1T seems Hiss Anthony was not in favor of the Womans Bible,
she thought it would injure the suffrage movement, and it did. Anna
Shaw made one of the best speeches Of the day.
When Miss Anthony arose to make the closing address she was much
effected and her voice trembed for a moment. GLOW can xnect
me to say anything after such a n ovation as this, except to express nv
thanks This honor is not personal. It'll to the cause 1 have represented
SO many years I could have accomplished nothing without the oonera-
ton of my many helpers" She said in part:
There is, after ALL compensation. Good friends, 1 have been reyiled
all my life. Ihave been scofed and jeered at, I have heard myself called
NOS. oieaalu a1 NM ano ! a been n target for every kind of dis
courtesy, but tonight lam ready to believe that there are people in the
world that really love me. I am truly grateful"
The roar of enthusiasm that went up was deafening. Over and YER
again they cheered the white haired woman as she stood there like q
statute, in the midst of an ovation, which she had waited almost fftv
years to receive. On erh high brow, but little lined with it's weight of
years, one could almost set the word "vindicated, I" and the steel nerves
the cast iron composure. which had withstood the menace If many a mob
was lot proof against the loving testimonials Of the night, and in that
vast audience of superbly dressed women, no diamond shone brighter
than the tears which dashed down upon the creamy lace over the fast
beatingheart of Miss Anthony, the woman.
wyoming, the first of all the states to enfranchise women, through
Mrs Warren, wife of Senator Warren of Wyoming, presented in a de
lghtful manner a tiny enameled flag, in the blue field of which four little
diamonds marked the suffrage states Then Mrs Schafroth came to the
iron fOr Colorado She IA Mis- Anthn or ovo,II+,1u f,,L:o.l
loving cup of solid silver, an expression of tender regard and love ron
the Colorado women. @
Therecephon rendered Miss Anthony at the Corcoran Art Gallery vas
me OF tn most brilliant ever held in that beautiful palace of art. The
hours were from 8 to IL o'clock, and when the time was reached when
the lights were to be turned out the people were tl pouring in, four
deep, to shake the hands of the evenings queen-for queen" Miss An
thony was for the evening. She was worn with the excitement and
business of the day, and was induced to sill, while shaking hands viii the
1900 people who passed her; so, from somewhere in the gallery a big