passed from earth. In Dr. Shaw's
eloquent response to the greetings she said: "Nothing has given me
greater hope for women and has made me prouder of women than the
splendid reserve power shown by southern womanhood for the last
twenty-five years. When your hearthstones were left desolate and your
bravest and strongest had gone forth never to come back, your women,
who had been cared for as no other women ever were cared for, who were
uneducated to toil, unacquainted with business requirements, averse to
them by instinct and tradition--when they had to face the world they
went out uncomplaining and worked with sublime heroism.... I am glad
to come among you southern women and to say that you have been an
inspiration to the women of the North and to whole world. The
daughters of those women of twenty-five years ago are the ones who
have made this splendid convention possible. Over our country now
there floats only one flag but that is a flag for women as well as
men. If there are any men who ought to have faith in women and in
their power to dare and do it is southern men, who owe so much to
southern women."

Mrs. Catt then gave her president's address of which an extended
press notice said: "Never was there a more masterly exposition of a
theme, never a more earnest or cogent argument. A distinguished
Justice of the Supreme Court who was present remarked to the writer:
'I have heard many men but not one who can compare with Mrs. Catt in
eloquence and logical power.' So the entire audience felt and at the
close of her magnificent discourse she was the recipient of an ovation
that came spontaneously from their hearts. The scene presented in the
Athenaeum was indeed a remarkable one." The address was not written and
no essential part of it can be reproduced from fragmentary newspaper
reports.

A discordant note in the harmony was struck by the _Times-Democrat_,
which, in a long editorial, Woman Suffrage and the South, assailed the
association because of its attitude on the race question. The board of
officers immediately prepared a signed statement which said in part:

The association as such has no view on this subject. Like every
other national association it is made up of persons of all shades
of opinion on the race question and on all other questions except
those relating to its particular object. The northern and western
members hold the views on the race question that are customary in