nd their mistakes,
if they have made any, have not thus far been brought to light.

Women have acted as delegates to county and State conventions,
and represented Utah in the national convention of one of the
great political parties, held in Chicago in 1896. They have acted
upon political committees and have taken part in political
management, and, instead of being dragged down, as was most
feared, their enfranchisement has tended to elevate them. Under
our system of the Australian ballot, they have found that the
contaminating influence of which they had been told was but a
bugbear, born of fright, produced by shadows. They learned that
to deposit their vote did not subject them to anything like the
annoyance which they often experienced from crowds on "bargain
days," while their presence drove from the polls the ward workers
who had been so obnoxious in the past.

Through the courtesy of the Governor and the approval of the
Senate they have been given places upon various State boards, and
in the last Legislature, in both the Senate and the House, they
represented the two most populous and wealthy counties of Utah.
The bills introduced by women received due consideration, and a
majority were enacted into laws. Whatever they have been required
to do they have done to the full satisfaction of their
constituents, and they have proved most careful and painstaking
public officers.

No one in Utah will dispute the statements I have made. To the
people of that young commonwealth, destined by its manifold
resources and the intelligence of its men and women to become the
Empire State of the Rocky Mountains, I refer you, in the fullest
confidence that, with scarcely a dissenting voice, they will say
that woman suffrage is no longer an experiment, but is a
practical reality, tending to the well-being of the State.

Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, national recording secretary, took for a
subject The Indifference of Women:

It is often said that the chief obstacle to equal suffrage is the
indifference and opposition of women, and that whenever the
majority ask for the ballot they will get it. But it is a simple
historical fact that every improvement thus far made in their
condition has been secured, not by a general demand from the
majority, but by the