Chapter 16

NATIONAL-AMERICAN CONVENTION OF 1896 252-269

The Rev. Miss Shaw's account of Miss Anthony's and her trip to the Pacific Coast -- Philosophy of Woman Suffrage -- Universal not Limited Suffrage -- Memorial service for Frederick Douglass, Theodore Lovett Sewall, Ellen Battelle Dietrick and others -- Welcome to Utah, a new State with Full Suffrage for Women -- Response by Senator Frank J. Cannon and Representative C. E. Allen -- Contest over the resolution against Mrs. Stanton's Woman's Bible -- Miss Anthony's eloquent protest -- Resolution adopted -- Women as Legislators -- Charlotte Perkins Stetson on The Ballot as an Improver of Motherhood -- Congressional Hearings -- Representative John F. Shafroth on the good effects of Woman Suffrage in Colorado -- Paper of Mrs. Stanton picturing dark page which present political position of woman will offer to historian of the future.