h an innate sense of
refinement and a touching undercurrent of desire "not to be too
hard on Zekle." As she tells her story, which she informs us is a
true one from real life, she engages the attention and wins the
sympathy of all her hearers, and frequent bursts of applause
evidence the satisfaction of the audience.

The convention proper opened on Tuesday morning with the
appointment of various committees,[98] and reports[99] from the
different States filled up most of the time during the day. May
Wright Sewall said:

Women must learn that power gives power; that intelligence
alone can appreciate or be influenced by intelligence; that
justice alone is moved by appeals based on justice. More
than anything in the course of suffrage labor does the
Nebraska campaign justify the primary method of this
National Association. We have a right to expect that each
legislature will be composed of the picked men of the State.
We have a right to believe that as the intelligence, wisdom
and justice of the picked men of the nation are superior to
the same qualities in the mass of men, so is the fitness of
national and State legislators to consider the demands for
the ballot.

Mrs. Mills of Washington sang, as a solo, "Barbara Fritchie," in
excellent style. Mrs. Caroline Hallowell Miller (wife of Francis
Miller, esq., late assistant attorney for the District of
Columbia) spoke with the greatest ease and most remarkable
command of language. She is in every sense a strong woman. She
said that, born and reared as she was in a Virginia town noted
for its intense conservatism, where she had seen a woman stripped
to the waist and brutally beaten by order of the law (her skin
happened to be of a dark color) whose only crime was that of
alleged impertinence, and that impertinence provoked by improper
conduct on the part of a young man; that, reared in such a cradle
as this, still, through the blessing of a good home, she had
learned to deeply appreciate the noble efforts of women who dared
to tread new paths, to break their own way through the dense
forest of prejudice and ignorance. Man cannot represent woman. If
woman breaks any law of man, of nature, or of God, she alone must
suffer the pen