The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-12
WOMEN Wild ARE CLEVER
MANY OF THEM WILL ATTEND
COMING CONVENTION OF
SUFFRAGISTS
TO BE HELD IN MINNEAPOLIS
Mrs. Susan II. Anthony, the Veneer
able Ex-Presidnt Of National As
ISOLATION, VIII he an Inter-
~ estlnR Delegate.

A large body Of interested and interest
ing women will gather at Minneapolis,
May 30 to June 5, in the thirty third an
nual convention of the National Amer
lean Woman Suffrage association. The
officers of this association are women Of
more than ordinary ability and of rather
remarkable attainments Miss Susan y.
Anthony, who retired from the presidency
at Washington last winter. on the oc-
casion Of her eightieth birthday and after
fifty years Of active work, Will be at the
convention She is busy at present on
the fourth volume OF the History Of
Woman Suffrage" which Is being written
at her home in Rochester N Y, by her
self and her biographer, Mrs. Ida Hustled
Harper. Miss Anthony has been reviled,
rldiculed, caricatured, insulted. Today
she is reTered, honored, beloved and she
is respected even by those who have no
sympathy with the movement she repre-
sents.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. who sue
ceeded Miss Anthony as president is y
young, gifted woman. Though living in
New York she is a Western woman by
birth. She is a graduate OF an ag1'i-
cultural college, was a teacher and super
intendent Of schools in Iowa, later a
journalist having been the first woman
reporter in San Francisco. She devotes
all OF her tine to the work OF the asso-
citation, having charge of the national
headquarters i'm the American Tract So
ciety building in New York Her hus-
band George w. Gait. president of the
Atlantic and Pacific Mining and Dredg-
ing company, who is a prosperous busl,
ness man and an expert engineer, is in
full sympathy with his wifes views.
They have a beautiful home on Long
Island
The vice president Of the association,
the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, Is a doctor.
of divinity and a doctor of medicine
She is well known as a lecturer. having
spoken many times in all the larger cities
in the country. 1t was the intention OF
the suffragists to have Miss Shaw debate
at the coming convention with some
leading member Of the society opposed t.
the extension of suffrage to women, but
this feature OF the programme had to be
cut out, because from the Rev. Lyman
ABBOTT down every "anti" who was in
vited to appear at Minneapolis declined
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell. the record
ing secretary, Is the daughter of Lucy
Stone She is the Junior editor OF the
Womans Journal and conceded to be
the best writer on woman suffrage in the
country. Her sound arguments In favor
of woman's enfranchisement are espc-
cially priced at legislative hearings and
@A'NNN'At6D
ment are wanted.
Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery who has just
announced her intention Of not staining
for reelection, has been corresponding
secretary for twenty years. Mrs. Avery
is a charming woman. She has enjoyed
unusual educational advantages, speak
ing several languages huently and being
interested In all sorts of philanthropic
and humanitarian movements. She lives
at Philadelphia and has three little girls
(he eldest adopted by Mrs. Avery he.
fore her marriageJ. Mrs. Avery studied
political economy at Zurich when a girl,
and lived abroad for three years.
Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton is treasurer
Of the association ana president OF the
Ohio Woman Suffrage association. She
is a member of the board Of education
at Warren, o., having recently been
elected to a second term of three years
on the regular Republican ticket. Her
father, Judge Ezra b. Taylor. succeeded
Garfield in congress and represented the
famous Nineteenth district, the district
of Giddings and Wade and Garfield, for
thirteen years.
The South is represented on the official
board by Miss Laura Clay, OF the famous
Clay family, of Kentucky. Miss Clay
is fine parliamentarian, an orator OF
no mean ability, and woman OF eXccp-
tional good sense. She lives at Lexing-
ton, in the winter, but in summer on
loil 1b w iiilSllehil WilNli SilS illdH1SGS.
She deals in stock and IS an excellent
judge of horses. She is first auditor.
The second auditor is n little woman
from Chicago. Though she is privileged
to write A. NJ. LIB, after her name,
and is a practicing attorney in partner
ship with her husband, yet Mrs Cath>
and mother She has three happy.
healthy children, of whom she Is very
proud In 1889 she published a little
book called "Mr. Lex" setting forth the
the father the sole guardian OF children,