fornia and Idaho in whatever
manner was desired in their approaching campaigns for a woman suffrage
amendment. Invitations for holding the national convention were
received from Springfield, Ill.; Denver, Col.; Cincinnati, O.; St.
Louis, Mo.; Portland, Ore.; Charleston, S. C. It was voted to leave
the matter to the business committee, who later accepted an invitation
from Des Moines, Ia., as the suffrage societies of that State were
organizing to secure an amendment from the Legislature.

At the last meeting, on Tuesday evening, every inch of space was
occupied and people were clinging to the window sills. Miss Anthony
stated that since Frederick Douglass was no longer among them as he
had been for so many years, his grandson, Joseph Douglass, who was an
accomplished violinist, would give two selections in his memory.

Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake (N. Y.), spoke on Presidential Candidates
and the Interests of Women, outlining the attitude of the various
nominees and parties. Miss Harriet May Mills (N. Y.) discussed Our
Unconscious Allies, the Remonstrants, illustrating from her experience
as organizer how their efforts really help the cause they try to
hinder. Mrs. Emma Smith DeVoe (Ills.), in demonstrating that The
Liberty of the Mother means the Liberty of the Race, showed the need
of truer companionship between man and woman and that the political
disabilities of women affect all humanity. This was further
illustrated by Mrs. Annie L. Diggs (Kas.) under the topic Women as
Legislators. She said in part:

You have before you a great problem as to whether republican
government itself is to be successful at this time, and statesmen
to save their souls can not tell what will be the outcome. We
believe that women have in their possession what is needed to
make it a success--those things upon which are built the home
life and the ethical life of the nation. We can supply what is
lacking, not because women are better than men, but because they
are other than men; because they have a supplementary part, and
it is their mission to guard most sacredly and closely those
things which protect the home life. Because of their womanhood,
because of their divine function of motherhood, women must always
be most closely concerned with the matters that pertain to the
home. It belongs to man, with his strong right arm, to pioneer
the way, and then woman comes along to