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Show SELECTED. Woman Suffrage. Mrs. Stevens and Mrs. Gordon addressed a large, fashionable and intelligent audience, at the court house, night before last, on the subject of the enfranchisement of woman. The district court room was filled to its utmost capacity, a very large proportion of the audience being ladies, and the hall outside was crowded crowd-ed with (first) curious and (then) anxious listeners. Hon. Frank 31. Proctor called the meeting to order, and introduced Mrs. Emily A. Pitts Stevens, who, in a brief speech, replete with happy hits and logical argument, eliciting frequent and hearty applause, opened the ball in Elko county. 3Irs. Laura DeForee Gordon followed in a speech of one hour's length, which, for compactness of argument, sound logic and perfect freedom from clap-trap and appeals to pas.sion or prejudice, is seldom equaled. Her voice, too, is rich, musical and powerful; her gestures gest-ures graceful, her stvle original, and her diction varied and copious clothing cloth-ing the rugged grandeur of cold facts in the most charming and attractive habiliments of poetry and romance, while the unbroken chain of her argument argu-ment seems linked garlands of rare beauty. The whole discourse was addressed ad-dressed directly to the reasoning faculties facul-ties of rational and intelligent- beings, and was well calculated to inspire thought and secure to the subject matter under discussion that earnest attention which the magnitude and importance of the movement demands. Mrs. Gordon will lecture again this evening, at the court house; subject '"The Ballot for Woman, and the Relations Re-lations of the Ballot to Labor." Mrs, Stevens and Mrs. Gordon will also speak at Carlin to-morrow (Sunday) evening. Elko Independent. |