l impression and we find
them thinking of us as victors and conquerors."

The opening of this convention, with Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, the
national president, in the chair, was a proud moment for Miss Laura
Clay, who was one of the organizers of the Kentucky Equal Rights
Association in 1888 and had been continually its president. In her
address of greeting she said:

We welcome you with hearts tender with the remembrance of the
past, when two of the great historic figures which have made this
convention possible gave their labors to Kentucky. In the early
fifties, Lucy Stone, in the vigor and freshness of her lovely
youth and enthusiasm for high ideals, spoke in the cities and
towns on both sides of the Ohio River; and in 1881 she held in
Louisville a convention of the American Woman Suffrage
Association. She established the _Woman's Journal_, which is now
edited, with all the noble moral principles and polished literary
ability which have characterized it throughout, by her daughter,
Alice Stone Blackwell, who is with us today. In 1879 that other
heroic woman, Susan B. Anthony, made a tour through central
Kentucky and left an enduring monument of her visit in the Equal
Rights Association of Richmond, Madison County, which has had the
longest continuous existence of any woman suffrage society in the
State....

We welcome you with hearts strong with hope for the future. The
glorious victories that we have had inspire us and in all the
harbingers of hope we see none greater than the Men's Leagues for
Woman Suffrage. These prove to us that the men of our country are
preparing to extend equal political rights to women, who, since
the time when this vast continent was a wilderness, have stood
side by side with them in the heroic labors which have made it
blossom like the rose with the fairest civilization the world has
ever known. In the great International Alliance Congress at
Stockholm men of many nations formed themselves into a Suffrage
League, and the Men's League of California did grand service in
the glorious victory in their State. This noble land extends from
California across the continent to Virginia where the latest
league of men has just been formed. We see in this generous
cooperation of the men of our nation a better exposition of the
legend on Kentuc