t women should not participate in municipal affairs as the
chief corrective of the evils which underlie most of our
municipal problems. I believe in woman suffrage not for women
alone, not for men alone, but for the advantage of both men and
women. Any community, any society, any State that excludes half
of its members from participating in it is only half a State,
only half a city, only half a community. So, you see, woman
suffrage does not interest me so much because woman is a taxpayer
or because of justice as because of democracy; because I believe
in the fullest, freest, most responsible democracy that it is
possible to create. The city of the people will be a man and
woman city. It will elect its officials for other than party
reasons and will keep men and women in office who give good
service.

The Hon. Rudolph Blankenburg, Philadelphia's noted reformer, who was
to speak on Municipal Regeneration, was detained at home and his wife,
Mrs. Lucretia L. Blankenburg, president of the Pennsylvania Suffrage
Association, told of the big campaign of the preceding autumn for
better government in that city and the important part women had in it
and said: "The men claimed that the women helped them a great deal but
when the day came for the jubilation after the election, not a woman
was invited to sit on the platform or to take part in the jubilee,
except in the audience. In one of our suburbs the successful people
gave a banquet and they did condescend to invite the women who had
helped them win the election to sit in the gallery after the banquet
and hear the speeches.... We are to have an election very soon and
when I left home to come to this convention our city party was holding
meetings in churches and halls and parlors and the chairman of the
committee chided me for deserting my 'home work.' I told her that it
was a greater work to try to get the right to vote and increase my
influence."

The Hon. William Dudley Foulke, president of the National Civil
Service Commission, spoke informally on An Object Lesson in Municipal
Politics, describing the revolution of the citizens against the
corrupt government of his home city, Richmond, Ind., and the valuable
assistance rendered by the women, and, as always, demanding the
suffrage for them.

It was at this meeting that Miss Jane Addams of Hull House, Chicago,
made the address on The Modern City and the Munici