Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS. [ARTICLE]

WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS.

Annual Convention of the National Annselation in Washington. The twenty-sixth annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association b gan in Washington with a large attendance of delegates representing all parts of the country. The session was devoted to the presentation of reports. The report of tho Executive Committee recommended that the special effort of the association be concentrated on the campaign in Kansas and New York, the two States where there is to be a t:st vote this year. Mrs. Lillie D. Blake, the member of the Executive Committee from New York, spoke of the work there, and predicted success for woman suffrage in the coming constitutional convention in New York. Mrs. Laura M. Johns, of Kansas, said that the work for the enfranchisement of women had progressed farther in Kansas than in New York. The night session of the convention was very largely attended, and those seated on the platform included District Commissioner Ross, Senator Teller, of Colorado, and Representatives Pence and Bell, of the same State. The President's address was then delivered by Miss Anthony. It was a brief, interesting, and critical review of the cause of woman suffrage, with frequent caustic allusions to the action of the courts in their decisions affecting the laws passed by the States for the enfranchisement of women.