The address of welcome for the State was made by Mrs. Mary L.
McLendon, who spoke earnestly in favor of equal suffrage, saying:

If Georgia women could vote, this National Convention could hold
its session in our million dollar capitol, which rears its grand
proportions on yonder hill. Crowning its loftiest pinnacle is the
statue of a woman representing Liberty, and on its front the
motto, "Justice, Wisdom and Moderation." It was built with money
paid into our State's treasury by women as well as men, both
white and black; but men alone, white and black, have the
privilege of meeting in legislative session to make laws to
govern women. Men are also allowed to hold their Democratic,
Republican, Prohibition and Populist Conventions in its halls. It
is with difficulty that women can secure a hearing before a
legislative committee to petition for laws to ameliorate their
own condition, or to secure compulsory training in the public
schools, that their children may be brought up in the way they
should go, and become sober, virtuous citizens.

Major Charles W. Hubner extended the welcome of the city, saying in
conclusion: "Reason and right are with you, and these, in the name of
God, will at last prevail." Afterwards he contributed the poem, "Thank
God that Thought is Free." Miss Anthony was presented by Miss H.
Augusta Howard and, after a speech complimentary to Southern women,
introduced Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake (N. Y.), who eulogized Southern
Chivalry, and Mrs. Lida A. Meriwether (Tenn.), who spoke in behalf of
Motherhood. Miss Elizabeth Upham Yates (Me.) made the closing address,
in which she said: "As surely as I want to vote--and nothing is more
certain--the man for whom I have most wished to vote was your own
beloved Henry W. Grady. There is something else for women to do than
to sit at home and fan themselves, 'cherishing their femininity.'
Womanliness will never be sacrificed in following the path of duty and
service."

One of the principal addresses of the convention was that of Gen.
Robert R. Hemphill of South Carolina, who began by saying that in 1892
he introduced a woman suffrage resolution in his State Senate, which
received fourteen out of thirty-five votes. He closed as follows: "The
cause is making headway, though slowly it is true, for it has the
prejudices of hundreds of years to contend against. The peaceful
revolution is u