Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-17

in the w. c. T. u, and later became vice
president-at-large of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association. She Is presl-
dent of Wimodaughsis, the women ha-
tional club of Washington.
Once during the worlds fair congress OF
religions in 1893, meeting in Wmcn she
was a spectator fell fiat because OF the
failure of many of the speakers. The CHAIR
man. a conservative clergyman OF the old
school, called on name after name OF those
on the printed program, with no response.
There was an embarrassing silence SUD
denly some one in the waiting audience
called DIR. Shaw the name being repeated
two or three times from various parts Oh
the room. 80
"Ah." said the embarra ssed chairman,
the light of hope cleaning on his face, ana
happily quite ignorant of the fact that the
speaker called was woman.
IF DIR. Shaw is in the Audience vii! he
kindly come to the PLATFORM
His face was a study of surprise, dlsh1ay
and distress when a plainly dressed, short,
stout woman with gray hair and twlnkilns
dark eyes came briskly down the aisle ana
assembled the steps. But his expression
citation as he listened to the pointed argu-
ments and the logic of the ADDRESS winch
followed
Miss Shaw is intensely patriotic, and is
member of the Woman's Relief Corps her
father and three brothers served in the
Treasurer-Elect.
Mrs Harriet Taylor Upton of Warren,
Ohio, the treasurer of the National Woman
Suffrage Association. has served in that
capacity for many years, and is greatly ad-
mired. She is also president of the ONO
State Woman Suffrage Association. She Is
energetic, Jealous, tactful. and Is said to
possess a remarkable insight into human
nature Mrs Upton is member of the
board of education at Warren, and does
helpful, effective work. Before she became
so engrossed In the Suffrage WORK she dlo a
great deal of literary work. Ezra b. Tay-
lor her father, succeeded Garfield in Con-
gress, and Mrs. Upton spent thirteen sea-
sons in Washington while her father was
in Congress. He has always been SUI
fragist and is a lawyer. At Washington
Susan 3. Anthony always consulted MIR.
Taylor IT matters relating TO the law. and
while Mrs. Upton was a great admirer OF
Miss Anthony, she opposed her Suffrage
against suffrage. and in searching for sup
port in opposition she found so much in
favor of it that she became converted. Mrs.
Upton has charge OF the vast amount OF
work connected with the national suffrage
Headquarters which have been removed
from New York to Warren, Ohio. She IS
also an active worker in the Womans Re
lief Corps.
Portland Ore. won out as the next meet
ing place for the national convention. Buff
falo N. Y. was a close second. The city
by the falls offered bonus of 81 400 for the
privilege of entertaining the suffragists, but
the Lewis and Clark exposition offered
tempting rates and a fine trip, so Port
lands invitation was accepted after a stiff
contest.
Addresses Last Evening.
The evening session yesterday was pre-
sided over by Miss Susan b.. Anthony.
The first speaker of the evening was Mrs.
Ellis Meredith of Colorado, her subject be-
ing Women and Legislation" Mrs. Mere
dith is a pleasing speaker, and prominent
in Colorado politics, and made 1t very clear
that women are just as potent factor in
promoting good legislation as are the men.
She declared them to be no more cor
ruptible than men, and that: they are on
the other hand a power for the uplifting
of the politics and making them cleaner
She cited as an instance that no woman
had been detected in the ballot box frauds
In Denver. If the voters had all been
women she believed there would have been
no fraud
Mrs Helen Loring Grerfell. state super
intendent of schools of Colorado, made the
principal address of theueveaing. education
in Colorado being her theme. This east
ern air." said she in beginning. seems
strange to me, after breathing the freedom
of the mountain pe<lks.eo Waaen 1 speak to
you about what you rnfssa by not being
enfranchised, / have the same feeling my
husband would nave were ne to travel
these thousands of miles to- plead for the
ballot for himself and his brethren"
Then Mrs. Grenfell eulogized the west
and things western. 20 sF1s
Arizona Statehood.
Just at present the east is Directing
vigorously to the admission to the Union
of the territory of Arizona, although the
town of Tucson fiourished before St Au-
gustine was built, jamestown planned or
Boston harbor sighted sr The first civilized
language spoken in America was not Eng
lish or French but Spanish. The amend
ment to the constitution of Colorado which
made the suffrage constitutional right
without regard to sex, providing the voter
has lived five years in the United States
was introduced by a Spanish-American
state senator whose genealogy runs so far
back that all our English speaking people
seem emigrants and interlopers by COM
parison.
while Colorado had not reached the
stage in the history OF evolution where
those possessing the governing power were
willing to divide 1t evenly when she be-
came the centennial state, she did recog-
nize In framing her constitution the inher-
emit right Of woman to a voice in the con-
troll of the republic of chtldhood Women
have always had the right to school suf-
frage in Colorado. Partisan politics have
never been known in Colorado school
election The candidate was everything.
his politics nothing. This was the case in
the early days, and II is still true under
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