d the Advocates of
Woman Suffrage Be Strictly Non-Partisan? -- Celebration in honor
of the Free States, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Idaho -- All
God's Works Recognize Co-equality of Male and Female -- Letter
from daughter of Speaker Reed -- Press Work -- Presidential
Suffrage.

CHAPTER XVIII.

NATIONAL-AMERICAN CONVENTION OF 1898 288-321

Fiftieth Anniversary of First Woman's Rights Convention -- Chief
obstacle to organization is women themselves -- Gains of
half-a-century -- Miss Anthony's birthday luncheon -- Mrs.
Stanton's paper on Our Defeats and Our Triumphs -- The
Distinguished Dead -- Mrs. Hooker and Miss Anthony in pretty
scene -- Roll-call of Pioneers -- Letter from Abigail Bush,
president of first convention -- Greetings from Lucinda H. Stone,
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell and many individuals and associations --
Addresses by Mrs. Cannon, a woman State Senator from Utah, Mrs.
Conine, a woman State Representative from Colorado, Miss Reel,
State Superintendent of Instruction from Wyoming, U. S. Senators
Teller and Cannon, and others -- Senate Hearing -- Wm. Lloyd
Garrison on The Nature of a Republican Form of Government -- May
Wright Sewall on Fitness of Women to Become Citizens from the
Standpoint of Education and Mental Development -- The Rev. Anna
Garlin Spencer on Moral Development -- Laura Clay on Physical
Development -- Harriot Stanton Blatch on Woman as an Economic
Factor -- Florence Kelley, State Factory Inspector of Illinois,
on the Workingwoman's Need of the Ballot -- Mariana W. Chapman on
Women as Capitalists and Taxpayers -- Elizabeth Burrill Curtis,
Are Women Represented in Our Government? -- Henry B. Blackwell,
Woman Suffrage and the Home -- Mrs. Stanton, The Significance and
History of the Ballot -- House Hearing -- Practical Working of
Woman Suffrage -- Alice Stone Blackwell on The Indifference of
Women -- Miss Anthony Closes Hearing.

CHAPTER XIX.

NATIONAL-AMERICAN CONVENTION OF 1899 322-348

Excellent arrangements at Grand Rapids -- Welcome from women's
organizations -- Miss Anthony's response; counting negro men and
refusing them representation no worse than counting all women and
refusing them representation, not discouraged, help of the press
-- The Rev. Anna Garlin Spencer on Our Duty to Our New
Possessions; s