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Show WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE. Washjegton, D. C, Feb. 2S Special lelejjiiini to Thk Hehald. Salt Lake will have the honor sooucrur later ol be-iiiii be-iiiii seledted as the place for holding one of the annual conventions of the IV on) aii's snlba sts. This assurance was givtn to day by Miss Susan H Anihany to Mrs. Sarah P. Kimball, the chairman of the Utah delegation to the convention now iiisession nere. Miss Auihouv's promise had re'eience to no particular date, but it may be two years hence, if indeed it be not within the next twelve muilhs. The Utah delegation consists ol nine members. mem-bers. Salt Like furnishes, viz Sarah Kimball, Emily Kicharde, Phoebe lieattie, Ann Groesbeck, Emeline Wells and Cor-oluie Cor-oluie Thomas. Ogden tiirnisoes one in thepeis.m of Jane S. Richards, while Electa liullock and Julia Gteeuhalh aie the delegates, respectively, from Provo and Fillmore. The convention transacted its business busi-ness to day under what, in the national Connies, would be known as the five-ininute five-ininute rule. To each delegation but one speech was allowed but a special exception ex-ception was mabe in the Utah case, and two i f the nine members, Mesdams Kimball Kim-ball and Richards, were permitted to be heard. Mis. Kimbal, who first addressed the convention, oenan by saying that she came fiom the chambers ol the mountains, moun-tains, "that she was one of the Utnh pioneers pio-neers and that she had driven ano.x team aciost the plains." She then went 011 to suite that the women of Utah had been jrieatly niifundeisLtHid bv their sisusts throughout the cnmitty and that this resulted re-sulted fi(.m iiisiiilficieiit iiilotniation t-sjardiny: t-sjardiny: them She described iu feeling language how inleiesied they were iu Hie sulhae movement, and the elevation t.f womanhood iteneraily. After repoit-inijthe repoit-inijthe condition of the auxiliary siiibage socety of Utah, Mis. Kimball cloned her lenuuks tviih an inviiatinii f r the ladies of the convention to hold 0110 of thetr lutuie conyiesses in Salt L; ke. She re-lt-ired with evident h eal pride to the re i.eption wlrth would be givm to them, anci assured them that tlieV shuuld be tfivi n a laier hall for their debbeialions them any 111 Wasshngton. Jt was at tills point Miss Anthony came forward and in the name af the conven-iion conven-iion ave Mis. Kimball the assuiance quoted at the beginning of this dispatch. Airs. Kimball's remarks were generously app'auded and these manifestation of favor fa-vor wete renewed again when Miss Anthony, An-thony, with one aim encirclingMis. Rich-aids' Rich-aids' waist, stepptd to the edge of the platfoim and introduced the latter iu a chaiac.eastically coid al manner. "Utah" she said, "had the largest representetion in the national convention. Shehasgiven our cause three times as much money as any ol thei older states, and I request that live minutes additional be j 1 ven Mrs, R chards 111 which to be heard." There was no oljecnon.Mis. Richards prccteded at once with hei auiess. She relerred to the popular idea that most of t ie women ol Uiah at some time or oiher have violated the law against polygamy. ''1 Ins," she said "is an eiroi" lhe piecei.tage of die iMoimon wumn who have ever lived 111 polgjamy is very small indeed, and by the foimal action ol tiie chinch polygamous mairiages have beer, and a:e forbidden. We will be pleased to Imiihh a copy of the olficial manifesto to ai y peison who wiil nn.ke application for it to a member of oui deglalion. We have been asked if the women of our territory weie not jealious ol Wyoming because has hsa won the prize of statehood before Utah, the oldest ward of the lepublic. Most csitaiu'y not. We rejoice in the guod forume ol our younger sister and aie proud ol her sovereign diadem of equal sud'.ane. Utah expects to wear one just like it some day iu the near Hiluie, tu : Si m ; pe. pie tnink beta li e women cam t lie lianchise they must want to tuuiinat'? the men Inn this is not so ltisequalty, not d 'initiation that we dis re, and not to develope the m.iscu line naiuics that our opponents profess to tear. In our expeneuce with the fiauchise we never discovered any de--moializing eficct from tiding to the polls wiih husbands fathers and brothers nor ficm conveying our aged and in-vah in-vah sisieis to the polling places when otherwise they might have been obliged to lose1 their votes' |