y sympathy with our movement. The most kindly and
genial hospitality was extended to the speakers by the
citizens of Washington, and nothing occurred to mar the
pleasure or diminish the influence of the meetings, which
were very largely attended, the audiences averaging one
thousand.

We have just reason to complain of the spirit of the
Washington press, as manifested in their reports of the
Convention. The sole exception was the _Daily Chronicle_,
which was fair and friendly. The other reports amounted to
little more than a burlesque, and the editorial comments
consisted chiefly of denunciation and ridicule. The N.Y.
_Tribune_, finding nothing to ridicule in our proceedings,
suppressed all mention of the Convention, not publishing
even the brief notices of the Associated Press. Having
charged woman suffrage with hostility to marriage, the
_Tribune_ has carefully refrained from informing its readers
that the American Woman Suffrage Association, representing
thirteen organized State societies, has held for the first
time a Convention in Washington, solely to urge the claim of
woman to legal and political equality. We wait to see
whether the _Tribune_ will be equally reticent, hereafter.
But neither the silence nor the misrepresentations of our
opponents will check the steady growth and progress of the
woman suffrage movement.

H. B. B.

The following is a short extract from the able address of Hon. G.
F. Hoar, Representative from Massachusetts, who said:

He would prefer the subject left to the leaders on the
platform and only be a follower in the ranks, but on command
of those having the matter in hand he had come to show his
colors. As he understood the subject, it was to assure the
American people that it was right to admit women to
participate in the affairs of government. They were using
the best minds and brains to draw out the arguments on this
subject, and some of our wisest fellow-citizens have been
unable to see any favorable argument for granting this
privilege. He then proceeded to give the ideas ente