Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-18

| spoke of the campaign in New Hampshire
Priscilla d. Hackstan of New York and
| Laura a. Gregg OF Nebraska also spoke,
| Of the fraternal delegates Arabeiia
Parker of Pennsylvania of the Caiyers2t
! Peace Union and Olive Pond Amies OF
New York. representing the Woman
| Christian Temperance Union, were intro
| duced Mrs. Gait regretted Miss Emma
/ s. Odds of Ohio, who had come to repre-
| sent the Order OF Maecabees of the World,
| had been unable to remain after TIE time
| set in the program for the greeting. MISS
Emily Rowland asked to spedk, being
| introduced by Mrs Gait as the silent wom-
an of New York, who seldom said any
thing. but gave much
Mrs. Gait then introduced the quiet
workers. Among these We're Mrs. Wendell
of New Hampshire, Miss Ellen Burr, Miss
Mary Anthony. sister of Susan 3. Anthony;
Mrs. Bailey, Miss Brown OF Washington
state, Mrs. Sweet of Rochester N. Y; Mrs.
Chapman of Brooklyn. Mrs. Upton the
treasurer .'and her girls" workers at
national headquarters; Miss Hauser Miss
Andrews and Miss Ray.
The New President introduced
AS the afternoon session was about clos
ing Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, retiring ma
tional president. who has endeared herself
to all by her gracious courtesy, her firm.
yet gentle, sway. presented to the conveu-
ton Rev. Anna Howard Shaw. the choice
of the convention for president fer the next
year.
Miss Shaw was not as clear-eyed as usual
as she faced the cheering audience. and her
voice trembled and choked a little as she
declared that she accepted the office only
to give Mrs Gait rest. and as the con-
vention continued to applaud she looked
fit to run. and between a sob ard cough
she said. Don't do that. or I snail surely
cry, which was more than half true, for
tbs. tears were then standing on her long
lashes.
The Concluding Session.
The closing session of the thirty-sixth an
nual convention of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association was held al
National Rifles Armory last night. The
hall was pa cked to the doors. The national
president, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. pre-
sided, and gathered about her on the plat
form were large number of the famous
women of the organization.
A dramatic feature of the evening was
the introduction of Miss Susan B. Anthony
and Miss Clara Barton Mrs. Gait intro
duced Miss Anthony, and she came to
the front of the platform she brought with
her Miss Barton The audience seemed UNI
able to express quite fully it's pleasure, and
applauded again and again Miss Barton
bowed. and Miss Anthony looked srnilingly
and benignly out over the enthusiastic
crowds.
Mss Anthony said it was her pleasure to
appear with woman who had stood by
her from the beginning OF her campaigns
until the present.
God be thanked" said Miss Barton,
! that l early gave my support to this
movement. The proudest moment Of my
life. as recall it now, is this, when stand
here with Susan b. Anthony and hear her
say have stood by her and stood by the
right
Mrs. Evely H. Belden of Colorado spoke
on the subject The Main Line" Mrs Jul
dith Ellen Foster, who is president of the
Won,ans National Republican League and
who has campaigned in presidential cleo
lions in forty-five states and the territories
addressed herself to the subject of Cam
paigning in Free States" meaning Colo
RADIO. Wyoming. Idaho and Utah, where
she is credited with doing yeoman work for
the cause of suffrage.
Woman Without a Country.
The concluding address was by Rev
Anna Howard Shaw. Her subject was
Woman Without a Country
1t is conceded that Miss Shaw could
make any subject interesting. but the man.
ner in which she sketched he-picture of a
woman without a flag, except as these
Were given her under the shelter of some
mans name, was dramatically pathetic In
closing she said:
To-day | sec the flags in your CITY at
half-mast great man has died. Shall
your fagS be at half-mast when this great
leader; turning to Miss Anthony. has
passed beyond? Is the flag masculine?"
She spoke of the lack of liberty of a mar
ried woman. and said spinster could
think had country. could teach school,
| hold clerkship and do many things which
married woman could not
If your President thinks so much of
matrimony and marriage he and his party
must make it worth while" she concluded
amid an uproar of applause
The executive committee, In session this
morning. finished up the loose business of
the convention in session il the pariors at.
the Shoreham
me next national convention will be held
next summer at Portland Ore