ur government lacks. Women
will always be wives and mothers. They will represent the home as
men represent the business interests, and both are needed. This
is a reform higher, broader, deeper than any and all others. Let
good men and women of all sects, parties and opinions unite in
establishing a government of and by and for the people--men and
women.

Lucy Stone, describing the convention in the _Woman's Journal_ of
December 1, wrote:

The local arrangements had been carefully made by Dr. Juliet M.
Thorpe, Mrs. Ellen B. Dietrick and Miss Annie McLean Marsh. The
spirit and temper of the meeting were of the best. Telegrams of
greeting were received from various States, and from far and near
came letters from those who were already friends of the cause,
and others who wished to learn. One old lady with snow-white
locks had come alone forty miles. She was not a delegate and she
had no speech to make, but her heart was in the work and she
found opportunity to speak words of cheer to those who were in
the thick of the fight. One young woman, a busy teacher, came
from Knoxville, Tenn. She wanted to know how to work for suffrage
in that State, and said she thought it "the best way to come
where the suffrage was." A large supply of leaflets, copies of
the _Woman's Journal_ and of the _Woman's Column_, were given
her, with such advice and instruction as the time permitted. Two
ladies were there from Virginia. This was their first suffrage
meeting, but they listened eagerly, subscribed for our
periodicals and gladly accepted leaflets. It was a comfort to see
by these new recruits how widely the idea of equal rights for
women is taking root. At these annual meetings the workers who
come from far distant States and Territories strengthen each
other. The sight of their faces and the warm grasp of their hands
serve to renew the strength of those who never have flinched, and
who never will flinch till women are secure in possession of
equal rights.

A number of ladies who came over from Kentucky took the
opportunity to organize a Kentucky Equal Suffrage Association.

It is always a matter of regret that the excellent speeches made
at these meetings can not be phonographically reported, but it
must suffice to say that they covered all the ground, from