something that would help the approaching suffrage campaign in
Oregon. 6. To speak to the national suffrage convention in Baltimore
in February, as he did to the Mothers' Congress. 7. To recommend to
Congress a Federal Suffrage Amendment before he left the presidency.

These requests were given to him in typewritten form but President
Roosevelt did not comply with one of them and did not communicate
further with the committee who called upon him. For full account of
this occurrence see Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, page 1375.

[40] Different sessions were opened with prayer by Rabbi Stephen S.
Wise, Father Black and the Reverends Elwin L. House, H. M. Barden, E.
S. Muckley, J. Burgette Short, J. Whitcomb Brougher, E. Nelson Allen,
Edgar P. Hill, W. S. Gilbert, A. A. Morrison, T. L. Eliot, Asa Sleeth,
J. F. Ghormley, George Creswell Cressey, representing various
denominations. Nearly all of them pledged their support to the
suffrage movement. The fine musical programs throughout the convention
were in charge of Mrs. M. A. Dalton.

[41] Oregon gave suffrage to women in 1912 and Mrs. Duniway received
full recognition. See Oregon chapter.

[42] Mr. Blackwell, then 80 years old, used to rise early in the
morning and take a trolley ride of thirty or forty miles in various
directions to enjoy the beauties of nature. "Feeling unwilling to
return east without bathing in the Pacific," he said in one of his
letters, "and wishing to visit Astoria, the ancient American fur-post
so charmingly immortalized by Washington Irving, I left Portland after
the convention closed and had a beautiful voyage of nine hours down
the river to where it meets the ocean.... After an early morning
plunge into the big waves we chartered an auto and sped over the hard
sands to the fir-crowned cliffs."

[43] For results the following year see Oregon chapter.

CHAPTER VI.

NATIONAL AMERICAN CONVENTION OF 1906.

The Thirty-eighth annual convention held in Baltimore Feb. 7-13, 1906,
was notable in several respects. It had gone into the very heart of
conservatism and a larger number of eminent men and women took part in
its proceedings than had ever before been represented on a single
program.[44] There were university presidents and professors, men and
women; office holders, men and women; representatives of other large
movements, men and women, and more distinguished women than had ever
before assembled in one convention. It was espec