ffrage is extended to the men of Hawaii and our other new
possessions, it may be extended to the women, and it is this
which has stirred up the anti-suffragists in Massachusetts, New
York and Illinois to their recent demonstrations.... Mrs. Harper
has culled extracts from all the favorable congressional reports
we have had during the past thirty years, and we have made a
pamphlet of them, which will be laid on the desk of every member
of Congress.[126]

Mary F. Gist, Anna S. Hamilton and Emma Southwick Brinton were
introduced as fraternal delegates from the Woman's National Press
Association; Mrs. William Scott, from the Universal Peace Union; Dr.
Agnes Kemp, from the Peace Society of Philadelphia; Elizabeth B.
Passmore from the Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends. Letters of
greeting were received from Mrs. Priscilla Bright McLaren of Scotland,
Mrs. Mary Foote Henderson, of Washington, D. C., and many others.

Among the memorial resolutions were the following:

In reviewing the gains and losses of the past year, we recall
with profound regret the loss of those tried and true workers for
woman's enfranchisement, George W. and Mrs. Henrietta M. Banker
of New York, who died within a few days of each other. "Lovely in
life, in death they were not divided." Although we shall sorely
miss their genial and inspiring presence, they will continue by
the munificent provisions of their wills to aid the cause.

We are also saddened by the news just received of the decease of
Dr. Elizabeth C. Sargent of San Francisco, our valued co-worker
in the recent California Suffrage Campaign, and daughter of our
lifelong friends, U. S. Senator Aaron A. and Mrs. Ellen Clark
Sargent. All advocates of equal suffrage unite in offering to the
bereaved mother their heartfelt sympathy in her loss.

A vote of thanks was passed to Bishop Spaulding of Peoria, Ills.,
Bishop McQuaid of Rochester, N. Y. (Catholics), and the Rev. Frank M.
Bristol of the M. E. Metropolitan Church, Washington (the one attended
by President McKinley), for their recent sermons referring favorably
to woman suffrage. These were the more noticeable as during this
convention Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore devoted his Sunday discourse
to a terrific arraignment of society women and those asking for the
suffrage, denouncing them alike as destroyers of the home, etc.

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