an address. Among the speakers here and in German
Artillery Hall was the Hon. R. R. Hemphill (S. C.), always a staunch
advocate of woman suffrage. An afternoon reception was given by the
Woman's Board. The _News and Courier_ and other papers had long and
excellent reports.

The Baltimore conference was held a few days later in the main
auditorium of the Central Y. M. C. A. Hall, with the Rev. Anna Howard
Shaw presiding. It was welcomed by Dr. E. O. Janney of Johns Hopkins
Medical School, and the national speakers were Miss Laura Clay,
president of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association; Dr. Cora Smith
Eaton, Judge J. G. Flenner of Idaho; the Rev. Olympia Brown, Mrs.
Colby, Miss Gordon and Mr. and Miss Blackwell.

[20] A Washington paper said: "There were a good many men in the
audience and they did not look much as they do in the comic papers.
The suffragists' husbands in caricature are consumptive, cadaverous,
insignificant mortals, trailing around in the wake of rambunctious and
overwhelming wives; but most of the men who mixed themselves up with
this convention looked as if they could not very easily have been
dragged there if they had not wanted to come. Some of them were six
feet tall and broad in proportion and none of them looked as if they
had been in the habit of asking their wives for permission to think.
They did not act like cats in a strange garret either but as if they
were having the time of their lives. No wonder; when a man does make
up his mind to come out for woman suffrage he can depend upon it he is
going to be appreciated."

[21] Besides the women ministers mentioned in this chapter sessions
were opened by the Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, the Rev. John Van
Schaick, Jr., the Rev. Alexander Kent and the Rev. Donald C. McLeod,
all of Washington.

The excellent musical program was in charge of Miss Etta Maddox of
Baltimore. She was a graduated lawyer but the courts of Maryland had
refused her permission to practice, as contrary to law. After the
convention she was accompanied to Baltimore by Miss Laura Clay, Mrs.
J. Ellen Foster, an attorney of Iowa; Miss Gail Laughlin, a New York
lawyer; Dr. Cora Smith Eaton and Mr. Blackwell. The Judiciary
Committee of the State Senate granted a hearing conducted by Miss
Maddox. By the end of March both Senate and House had passed a bill
giving women the right to practice law.

[22] Miss Anthony, Mrs. Catt, Mrs. Upton and Miss Blackwell were made
a committee to p