ggests. You can not be a
Republican in one convention to-day and non-partisan in another
to-morrow. The men who believe in suffrage are voters, and must
have their parties, of course. But any woman who champions either
political party makes more votes against than for suffrage. I
could give numerous examples. Do not be deluded with this idea
that one party is right and the other wrong. Which is it? One
party seems right to one-half of the people, and the other party
to the other half. As long as women have no votes, any one of
them who will make a speech either for gold or silver or for any
party issue is lacking in self-respect.

MISS BLACKWELL: Miss Clay seems to have understood the question
presented for discussion in a different sense from what I did. I
do not believe in making suffrage a tail to any party kite, of
course; but women as well as men are bound to do what they can to
promote good government, and hence to promote by all legitimate
means the party which they believe to be in the right. They will
inevitably do this more and more as they become more interested
in public questions. See how many women took part in the late
campaign, making speeches for gold or silver, not with any eye
to woman suffrage--for neither party was committed to it--but
purely for the sake of the welfare of the country, as they
understood it. I can not agree that they were lacking in
self-respect....

MISS SHAW: I have made only one party speech in my life. That was
ten years ago, for the Prohibition Party; and if the Lord will
forgive me, I will never do it again till women vote.

In spite of the lively difference of opinion, the meeting adjourned in
great good humor and amid considerable laughter.

The last session of the convention was a celebration of the suffrage
victory in Idaho, conducted by representatives of what the association
liked to call "the free States." Mrs. Colby said in behalf of Wyoming:

....No matter if we fill the field of blue with stars, one will
always shine with peculiar lustre, the star of Wyoming, who
opened the door of hope for women.

There is a beautiful custom in Switzerland among the Alpine
shepherds. He who, tending his flock among the heights, first
sees the rays of the rising sun gild the top of the loftiest
peak, lifts his horn