own success, never try to benefit others, and fail to
comprehend the debt they owe to the brave, unselfish ones who
first made demands for them and who never ceased their efforts
until one after another the barriers were removed and
opportunities secured for thousands which they never could have
found themselves. It was this stanch band of pioneers, defying
criticism, scorn and hate, who forced open college doors, invaded
the law courts and stubbornly contested every inch of ground so
persistently held by fraud or force from the daughters of the
great republic....

Organized as women now are, they could pour such an overwhelming
moral influence into the political life of the country as to
become its saving grace; for when women vote they will show good
men, who have weakly shrunk from political duty, that they have a
moral and clean constituency to stand with them.

The platform proceedings of the convention closed with Miss Shaw's
splendid delineation of The Injustice of Chivalry.

Every suffrage convention for the last twelve years had been preceded
by a handsome reception at the Riggs House. This well-known and
commodious hotel had been the convention headquarters, and it also had
been the winter home of Miss Anthony, where she remained as a guest of
the proprietor, C. W. Spofford, and his wife, being thus enabled to do
a vast amount of congressional and political work, such as never has
been done since. The hotel now had passed into other hands and the
Washington _Post_, in speaking of this matter, said: "The delegates
feel like lost sheep without Mrs. Spofford's hospitality at the Riggs
House, which has always been headquarters for suffragist and all
women's conventions. Probably no one but those in the inner circle
will ever know just how much Mrs. Spofford has done for the
advancement of women in every direction. Whatever was hers was at the
disposal of the leaders, and in the absence of so much assistance it
is appreciated more nearly at its real worth."

[Illustration: MRS. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON.

Honorary President of National-American Woman Suffrage Association.]

The new club house of Wimodaughsis was opened for a reception to the
delegates by the District W. S. A., with Miss Anthony, Lucy Stone,
Mrs. Stanton, Henry B. Blackwell, and Miss Shaw, president of
Wimodaughsis, as guests of honor. All made clever little speeches
toward th