Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1882 — Women in Convention. [ARTICLE]

Women in Convention.

The annual meeting of the National Wom-an-Suffrage Association was held at Omaha. There was quite a large attendance of the advocates of the ballot for women. Resolutions were adopted thanking Congress for the appointment of a select woman’s-suffrage committee in each house; thanking Senators Lapham, Ferry, Blair and Anthony for theii report in favor of an impartial-suffrage amendment to the constitution of the United States; that it is the paramount duty of Congress to submit a Sixteenth amendment which shall secure the enfranchisement of woman; declaring that the association should labor for the submission of an amendment to the national constitution x>rohibiting the States from disfranchising on the ground of sex; that the action of the State conventions of Republicans in Kansas and Indiana, the Democrats in Massachusetts, the Anti-Monopolists in New York and the Prohibitionists in Chicago indicate a recognition of the strength •of our cause and the near apiiroaoh of the full recognition of woman’s political rights; that it is-the duty of the Legislatures of lowa, Oregon an 1 Indiana to ratify the xiroposel woman-suffrage amendment; and that the enlargement of woman’s political freedom in Ireland, Scotland, India and Russia is encouraging, while the refusal of these privileges is the more inconsistent in our republic. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was elected President for the ensuing year.