own voting while we
women attend to ours." Mayor Timanus was indisposed and the welcome
for the city was given by the Hon. William F. Stone, Collector of the
Port. He vied with the Governor in the warmth of his greeting and his
splendid tributes to women and acknowledged his indebtedness for "all
that he was or expected to be to his sainted mother and beloved wife,"
but, like the Governor, he could not give his full sanction to woman
suffrage. When he had finished Dr. Shaw said with her winning smile
and melodious voice: "We have the testimony of Governor Warfield and
of Collector Stone that the best each has been able to accomplish has
been due to the influence of good women. Now if a good woman can
develop the best in an individual man, may not all the good women
together develop the best in a whole State? I am glad of this strong
point in favor of enfranchising women."

Miss Anthony was to have presided at this meeting and in referring to
her absence on account of illness Dr. Shaw said: "I am not taking Miss
Anthony's place this evening--there is only one Susan B. Anthony, but
it is also true that there is only one Clara Barton and but one Julia
Ward Howe and these grand women we have with us." Miss Barton, who, in
her soft plum-colored satin with fichu of white lace, her dark hair
parted smoothly over her forehead, did not seem over sixty although
she was eighty-four, was enthusiastically received and said in part:
"What greater honor and what greater embarrassment than to be asked to
take ever so small a step on a platform that Susan B. Anthony had
expected to tread. As I stand here tonight my thoughts go back to the
time when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Miss Anthony were pioneers
struggling for this righteous cause. I think the greatest reforms, the
greatest progress ever made for any reforms in our country have been
along the lines on which they worked. Miss Anthony's has been a long
life. She has trod the thorny way, has walked through briars with
bleeding feet, but it is through a sweet and lovely way now and the
hearts of the whole country are with her. A few days ago some one said
to me that every woman should stand with bared head before Susan B.
Anthony. 'Yes,' I answered, 'and every man as well.' I would not
retract these words. I believe that man has benefited by her work as
much as woman. For ages he has been trying to carry the burden of
life's responsibilities alone and when he has the efficient help o