erhood of the republic asking for
full political recognition."

The last address of the convention was made by the Rev. Ida C. Hultin,
on the Crowning Race, whose men and women should be equally free. Gov.
Davis H. Waite of Colorado sent a letter in relation to the
enfranchising of women the previous year, in which he said:

The Populists more than any other political party in Colorado
favored equal suffrage, but many Republicans and Democrats also
voted for it, and in my opinion the result may be considered as
due to the enlightened public sentiment of the common people of
the State. The more I consider the matter the more it grows upon
me in importance, and the more I realize the fact that all the
patriotism, all the intelligence and all the virtue of the
commonwealth are necessary to preserve it from the corrupt and
mercenary attacks made upon it from all points by corporate
trusts and monopolies. Equal suffrage can not fail to encourage
purity in both private and public life, and to elevate the
official standard of fitness.

A letter from Mrs. May Wright Sewall, regretting her enforced absence,
closed by saying:

Many of you know that the last few months I have spent in editing
the papers presented at the World's Congress of Representative
Women, held in Chicago last May. It is a remarkable and to me
quite an unexpected fact that the papers upon the subject of
Civil and Political Reform are hardly more earnest appeals for
political equality than are the addresses to be found in every
other chapter. Hereafter if one asserts that the interest in the
woman suffrage movement is not growing, let him be cited to this
galaxy of witnesses, whose testimony is all the more valuable
because in the large majority of instances it proceeds from women
who never have identified themselves with it, and are not at all
known as advocates of political equality. The meaning of the
entire report is equality, co-operation, organization; that is,
the demand made by the National Suffrage Association is the
demand borne to us by the echoes of that great congress.

Among the committee reports that of Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery, Chairman
of Columbian Exposition Work, attracted especial attention and was in
part as follows:

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