ormer President Grover Cleveland in the
_Ladies' Home Journal_ denouncing women's clubs and particularly
suffrage clubs had been almost universally commented on by the press
and required extensive attention. A reply to Cardinal Gibbons's
address to the women graduates of Trinity College, Washington, by Mrs.
Ida Husted Harper was sent to eighty metropolitan papers and hundreds
of shorter ones were scattered broadcast. The excellent work of the
various State press chairman was described.

One afternoon was devoted to a conference on How Can We Best Utilize
the Press? Mrs. Harper presided and nearly twenty speakers took part.
One of the Portland papers commented: "If the great political organs
of the United States knew how well these women have the tricks of the
trade at their fingers' ends they would employ special detectives to
watch for suffrage literature in disguise." Mr. Lathrop, editor of the
Portland _Journal_, said: "A newspaper man in his official capacity is
not an educator but a seller of news. One who would treat a suffrage
convention as a negligible quantity would lose his job. The question
is not how you can get matter about women into the papers but how you
can keep it out." Mrs. Florence Kelley added: "We all know to our
sorrow that women cannot keep out of the papers but the question is
how to get our subject in them in a way to promote it. I can recommend
the following method: Write something in editorial style just about as
you want it to appear and send it to the editor with a deprecatory
note to the effect that it is only raw material but perhaps it could
be whipped into an editorial by his able pen. The chances are that the
first time he is hard up for one he will use it--probably beheaded or
with the end off or the middle amputated to show that the editor is
editing, but it will be published."

Miss Anthony was asked for reminiscences of her famous paper, the
_Revolution_, published in New York in 1868-70. Mrs. Duniway gave an
interesting account of her paper, the _New Northwest_, begun in 1871
in Portland and continued for a number of years with the help of her
five young sons. She expressed her love for the _Woman's Journal_,
"the dear, reliable, old paper started by Lucy Stone and kept going by
the heroic efforts of her husband and daughter," and many joined in
this expression. Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby (D. C.), editor of the
_Woman's Tribune_, told of the press conference at the International
Co