onies was carried out on the
steps of the State Capitol. Governor Bamberger, former Governor Heber
M. Wells, Congressman E. O. Leatherwood and Mayor C. Clarence Neslen
joined the women in congratulatory addresses. Mrs. Richards, Mrs.
Hannah Lapish and Mrs. Lydia Alder, veteran suffragists, told of the
early struggles and Mrs. Beulah Storrs Lewis appealed to women to keep
high the standard in order to lead men out of the darkness of war into
the light of brotherly love and make ready for world peace. Mrs. Annie
Wells Cannon and Mrs. Susa Young Gates were appointed to send a
telegram of congratulation to Mrs. Catt. The celebration was under the
auspices of the League of Women Voters, whose chairman, Mrs. Kinney,
presided. The most impressive figure on the platform was President
Emmeline B. Wells, 92 years old, who had voted since 1870 and who had
labored all these years for this glorious achievement. What those dim
eyes had seen of history in the making, what those old ears had heard
and what that clear brain had conceived and carried out only her close
associates knew. She was the incarnate figure of tender, delicate,
eternally determined womanhood, arrived and triumphant.

FOOTNOTES:

[184] The History is indebted for this chapter to Mrs. Susa Young
Gates, member of the General Board of the Woman's Relief Society and
editor of the Relief Society's Magazine since it was established in
1913 and historian of the activities of Utah women.

CHAPTER XLIV.

VERMONT.[185]

The first convention to consider woman suffrage took place in Vermont
in 1883, when a State association was formed, and others were held
regularly to the end of the century, with the cooperation of the
Massachusetts association. At the convention held in Waterbury Center
June 12, 13, 1900, Henry B. Blackwell of Boston, editor of the
_Woman's Journal_, was the chief speaker. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt,
the new president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association,
sent a letter of helpful suggestions. Petitions for a Federal Suffrage
Amendment were forwarded to Congress. During this and the following
years the _Woman's Journal_ was sent to members of the Legislature; a
column prepared from that paper was sent to every editor in the State
and much literature was distributed, the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union assisting.

The convention of 1901 met in Rochester June 25, 26. The speakers were
Mr. Blackwell, Professor W. L. Burdick, the