The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-02-23
SMART GOWNS
AND GRAY HAIRS
Two Appurtenances Of Many of
the Women SuffragiStS.
MANY UTAH PEOPLE THERE
WELLS WRITES "THE
INCEST LETTER EVER"


III ASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE an
w nual convention of the Woman
Suffrage association just closed a
very successful and brilliant session.
Thirty-two states were represented by
delegates. The convention hall was
decorated very deliberately with flags.
doubtless pleasing to the foreign guests,
whose tastes had evidently been con-
suited. The flags were loaned from
the collection OF Miss Clara Barton, and
she received them from the heads of
the governments they representa- gra-
cious tribute in most cases from the
relgning monarch to Miss Barton's I'M
! firing zeal in the interests of suffering
humanity.
Above the platform, high up on the
wall, hung great red cross nag. On
one side of it hung the dOuble-neaded
bird OF Russia, surm0unted by crown,
and on the other side the single-headed
| bird that represents Germany. Be
yond them hung the Onion Jack of
Great Britain, and then came the
queer feathered creature that claims
Austria Hungary for its nome. Other
flags were those of Switzerland, Den
mark, Turkey and half a dozen others
The proudeSt of them all were the
stars and stripes and these were the
colors that draped the front of the
platform and decorated the gallery. At
the rear of the hall was hung an i'm
mense flag of stars and stripes, with
the word Wyoming in large gold let
tiers. Much was said in the convention
concerning Wyoming as the pioneer
state of equal suffrage, and Miss Isabel
Campbell, daughter of Ex-Governor
Campbell. spoke a few words concern
ing her fathers early connection with
the movement.
A Wyoming woman who attended the
convention and knew something of
politics was greeted with much enthu-
siasm.
Utah sent six delegates, and accom-
panying them were ten others inter-
ested, making sixteen people who made
the long journey to be present. In the
space allotted for Colorado delegates
were the wives of both senator's, Mes
danes Teller and Patterson; both wives
of the congressional representative /
Mesdames Bell and Shafroth, and Dele
gates Mrs. z. NJ. Ashley and Profess
sor TheOdOsia AmmOns. Wyoming hav-
ing no delegate. no space was allotted
the state on the floor.
Gowns Of Importance.
The gowns worn by the delegates
were probably a revelation to many
outsiders. At an evening reception
Miss Anthony wore a costume of Grim
son velvet with lace fichu, which, with
her abundant silver white hair, made
her a picture in crimson and white.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, chairman
of the national association, was gowned
in a pale blue silk, daintily trimmed
with lace and velvet. Contrary TO the
usual idea, and the one most exploited
by strangers, the equal suffrage women /
are not working for the. ballot exclu-
sively, but for every broad moral re-
form.
As a measure conducive to hearty,
attractive old age, the suffrage
movement is unexcelled. There 1
were present at this meeting Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, aged 81; Julia Ward
Howe, SO; Mary Livermore, 81; Rev.
AntOinette Brown Blackwell, so; Mrs. !
Henry Blackwell 81 and Isabella
Beecher Hooker. So
Utah was well represented at the
Woman Suffrage convention. One of
the interesting features of the weeks
programme was the letter written by
Governor Wells, reviewing the work of
women in Utah. which was read to the |
convention by Mrs. Emmeline 3. Wells, |
one of the delegates from that state.
The letter is as follows:
ITO write a letter TO you, the lifelong
and distinguished advocate of the en-
reimbursement of woman, telling You
that I am also in favor of il, seems a !
good deal like carrying Goals to New |
castle, but since you wish it, I most /
cheerfully acquiesee.
Governor Sends Sympathy.
Woman suffrage is correct in prin- 1
ciple 1t is founded upon inherent /
right II it were not for man-made !
laws women would vote as we'll as
men, and if women had made the laws /
in the first place, it is fair to assume !
they would not have been so selfish as /
TO have excluded men. Our forefathers
commended for the principle of consent
Of the governed, yet in their general !
exultation over their revolutionary vic !
tories they forgot our fOremOthers,
whose female descendants are governed /
still without their specific consent.
Our forefathers fought against the /
injustice of taxation without repre-
sentation; they won the battle; the
shouts of their triumph echoed around /
the world, yet unrepresented women
property owners are still paying taxes. /
have never heard an argument (
against the right of women to vote, but /
only against the eXpediency of it. The /
themselves with doubling the advisa- /
bility Of such a move, but they do not |
attempt to prove that women are not
entitled to the franchise as a matter
of right
Indians are prohibited from voting |
because they are not capable of exer- /
ciSlng the franchise intelligentlv. The I
native subjects of our new possessions |
VIII not be allowed TO vote until they !
are able to comprehend that to be an /
American citizen is greater than a king.
Children in the United States are for
hidden the franchise until they are ma |
tured by age. But here is Susan r !
Anthony. who is over the age of d
endowed with all the graces. lovaI 10 !
me institutions of her country. 4 land /
ed property owner, capable of Occunv- !
ing the highest Office in the gift of the /
people, and she cannot vote for con !
stable IN her own precinct. for no /
other reason than that she is 2 woman
/ suppose that the idea is thar She
must not be allowed to cast her baIIof
because it would open the door to ofber
intelligent women"
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