| Show WOMAN SUFFRAGE 1 Salt Lake Will Have the Honor Sooner 01 Later OF BEING SELECTED FOR HOLDING One of the Annual Conventions of the Woman Snflrasrlsts Such is MIss Anthonys Promise Sirs Richards Speech WASHINGTON D C Feb 28Special telegram to THE HERALD Salt Lake will i have the honor sooner or later of being selected as the place for holding one of tho i annual conventions of the Womans suffrag i ists This assurance was given today to-day by Miss Susan B Anthony to Mrs Sarah P Kimball the chairman of the Utah delegation Ito i I-to the convention now in session here Miss Anthonys promise had reference to no particular I par-ticular date but i may be two years hence indeed it be not within the next twelvemonths twelve-months The Utah delegation consists of I nine members Salt Lake furnishes viz Sarah Kimball Emily Richards Pncabe Beat tie Ann Groesbeck Emeline Wells and Caroline Thomas Ogden furnishes one in I the person of Jane S Richards while Electa Bullock and Julia Greenhalgh are I the delegates respectively from Provo and I Fillmore I The convention transacted its business J today under what in the national Congress Con-gress would be known as the fiveminute rule To each delegation but one speech was allowed but a special exception was i made in the Utah case and two of tho nine I members Mesdames Kimball and Richards Rich-ards were permitted to be heard Mrs Kimball who first addressed the convention conven-tion began by saying that she came from the chambers of the mountains that she I was one of the Utah pioneers and that she had driven an ox team across the plains She then went on to state that the women of Utah had been greatly misunderstood by their sisters throughout the country and that this resulted from insufficient information in-formation regarding them She described in I feeling language how interested they were in the suffrage movement and the elevation eleva-tion of womanhood generally After reporting re-porting the condition of the auxiliary suffrage suf-frage society of Utah Mrs Kimball closed I her remarks with an invitation for the ladies of the convention to hold one of their future congresses in Salt Lake She referred re-ferred with evident local pride to the reception recep-tion which would be given to them and assured them that they should be given a larger hal for their deliberations than any in Washington I was at this point Miss Anthony came forward and in the name of the contention L gave Mrs Kimball the assurance quoted I at the beginning of this dispatch Mrs Kimballs remarks were generously applauded ap-plauded and these manifestiftions of favor i were renewed again when Miss Anthony I with one arm encircling Mrs Richards Iy waist stepped to the edge of the platform introduced the latter in a characteristically characteris-tically cordial manner Utah she said had the largest representation in the national convention She has given our cause three times as much money as any of the older states audI request that five minutes additional be given Mrs Sin S-in which to be heard There was no objeotion and Mrs Rich Lards L-ards proceeded at once wth her address i She referred to the popular idea that most of the women of Utah at some time or other have violated the law against polygamy polyg-amy This she said is an error The percentage of Mormon women who have ever lived in polygamy is very small indeed and by the formal action of the church polygamous marriages have been and are forbidden We will be pleased to furnish a copy of the official manifesto to any person who will make application for it to a member of our delegation We have been asked if the women of our territory were not jealous of Wyoming because she has won the prize of statehood before be-fore Utah the oldest ward of the republic Most certainly not We rejoice in the good fortune o our younger sister and are proud of her sovereign diadem of equal suffrage Utah expects to wear one just like it some day in the near future too Some people think that because women claim the franchise they must want to dominate the men but this is not so I is equality not domination that we desire and not to develop the masculine natures that our opponents profess to fear In our experience with the franchise we never discovered dis-covered any demoralizing effect from riding rid-ing to the polls with husbands fathers and brothers nor from conveying our aged and invalid sisters to tho polling places when otherwise they might have been obliged to lose their votes At one election in Ogden the Junction City wo saved our ticket in just that way and our appreciation of the sacred franchise i second to none We prize it more highly for having once enjoyed it We are determined to do our part in the I great struggle for human freedom and equal rights That Is why Utah polls tho I heaviest vote in this convention That is why she has sent nine delegates who travel 5000 miles at an expense of 3000 to represent her in the national council of women and an this convention Utah deems I it a high privilege to be represented in the most distinguished bodies of women that the word has ever known and her delegates dele-gates feel proud to bo enrolled with these illustrious souls who have consecrated I their lives to tho cause of freedom and I human rights When she had finished the speaker was warmly congratulated by a number of the delegates upon the rostrum and by none more heartily than by Miss Anthony who has sought repeatedly to testify in public her affection not only for Mrs Richards but for the other ladies in the delegation |
