by
the present legislature. More than 1,000 persons were in the
audience, and great enthusiasm prevailed. The morning session was
devoted to business and the election of officers.[182] In order not
to conflict with a meeting of the State Temperance Association, no
afternoon session was held, and, in return, the State Temperance
Society gave up its evening meeting to enable its members to attend
the suffrage convention.

Speeches were made by Henry B. Blackwell of Boston, Rev. Ellen
Gustin of Mansfield, Mary Eastman of Lowell, and others.
Resolutions were passed pledging the association not to cease its
efforts until the unjust discrimination with regard to voting is
swept away; that in the election of president, and of all officers
where the qualifications of voters are not prescribed by the State
constitution, the experiment should be tried of allowing women to
vote; that in view of the large amount of money which has been
expended in Maine for the exclusive benefit of the Boys' Industrial
School during the past twenty years, it is the prayer of the ladies
of Maine that the present legislature vote the sum asked for the
establishment of an Industrial School for girls.

In 1874 we find notices of other onward steps:

EDITORS JOURNAL: Woman's cause works slowly here, though in one
respect we have been successful. Our county school-superintendent
is a lady. She had a large majority over our other candidate, and
over two gentlemen, and she is decidedly "the right person in the
right place." She is a graduate from the normal school, the
mother of four children, a widow for some six years past, and a
lady. What more can we ask, unless, indeed, it be for a very
conscientious idea of duty? That, too, she has, and also energy,
with which she carries it out. The sterner sex admit that women
are competent to hold office. But some say we are not intelligent
enough to vote. What an appalling amount of wisdom they show in
this idea! It would be "unwomanly" in us to suggest such a word
as inconsistency.

Fraternally, M. J. M.

_Cairo, Me., April, 1874._

In Searsport a woman was elected one of the two
school-superintendents of the town. The following advertisement
appears in the local newspaper:

SEARSPORT SCHOOL NOTICE.--The superintending school-committee of
Searsport will meet to examine teach