The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-25
Echoes of the Suffrage Convention
Mrs Louse George
Mrs. Louise George

every woman s baby, and dance with
he will lose her vote.
| Representative HAYES of California
| also conveyed big yellow box TO the
! front, while his lovely dark-eyed wife
beaned approval from the members gal
lery.
some one asked, ''or a suffragettef'
90 am a suffragist, she replied. 'l
prefer to build for the future rathei
than to commemorate the past
Kissing Episode,
I sat beside the Rev. Anna Shaw
when the petitions were presented IN
sode came up. "I spent one of the
saddest hours of my life, - she said,
"nfter that dreadful occurrence the
| other evening. Of course, the officials
were in nowise TO blame. and ! doubt
if many Of the delegates were, and
yet l received letter this morning
| which said: Shame, shame, shame on
vou Anna Shaw, that you allowed the
president of The United States TO be
| hissed in yonr convention
AS far as ] could detect 1t, the
Kissing was begun by some men near
me, who evidently resented the pres1-
dent IS remark about the least desir-
able women being the ones most likely
to avail themselves of the ballot. l
wanted very much 10 tell Mr.. Taft that
the wives of government officials and
these least desirable women were the
only ones already welding political
power in the United States
A letter Of apology, unanimously en-
dorsed by the members Of the con-
vention, was sent to the president, but
one could tell that his words ranked
in their minds, That very afternoon
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch was ap-
plauded at the opeu-air meeting at
Pennsylvania avenue and Seventh
street, when she told those assembled
that the women had no other recourse
in expressing their disapDroval than TO
hiss "Wheu our women can vote,
said Mrs. Blatch, ''they will not hiss
the chief executive
The convention S final act on that
day of explanation was to approve
by laughter and applause, references
made by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait.
which were taken to reflect upon the
stand of President Taft. and which sc
delighted the army of suffragisis pres
emf, that they voted TO have copy
of Mrs. Catt's speech sent TO every
politician in the country. from the
chief executive down. Mrs. Gait, IN
discussing the question of Withholding
the vote from women, spoke of the
enfranchiscment of the Indian, and re-
marked with decided emphasis, that
there was no record TO show whether
among the Indian voters it was the
"good Indian who voted. ''Whep
ever we suffragists appeal to legisla-
lures, for enfranchisement,' said Mrs
Gait, "we arc met with the invariabIe
response: when all women want the
bo1r hn
tions of the ages seem concentrated IN
this little sentence. 1t seems to infer
that men In overwhelming numbers
| have demanded the vote, and have hero
ically won it after a noble struggle
! think il is time that fallacy was
punctured. Then when we 60 to con.
gress and ask the vote. we are told
that congress has no jurisdiction. we
must 90 TO the states. ! think il is
time that fallacy was punctured, TOO
There is not one man voter In this
country who was enfrancbised by his
own effort, or that of any class to
which he belongs
She Voted for Taft.
4 beautiful. brown-cycd woman from
Cheyenne. Mrs. Iell Hart Dcming, was
sitting on the edge Of ihe platform
the evening of the presidents 5 visit 10
the suffrage convention. She wore n
white lace gown, with a breast knot
of pink roses. and her white hat was
wreathed with wild roses of delicate
hue. She carried herself with a proud
little air, for she cast ballot for
Taft AT the last presidential election.
Mrs. Deming had called at the white
house in the morning to shake the hand
of the president she had helped to
place in the executive mansion. Before
Mr.. Taft reached the convention hail
that evening Mrs. Deming was intro