. Fannie J.
Fernald, president of the Maine Suffrage Association, and Mrs. Mary S.
Sperry, president of that of California, responded and in introducing
them Dr. Shaw said: "These responses from the Atlantic and the Pacific
Coasts represent greetings from all the women between them." The
presidents of the Chicago North Side, the South Side and the Evanston
Political Equality Clubs were presented and received with applause.
Bishop Fallows expressed the wish that what he should say could be
voiced by the ministers of all the churches in the land and said: "I
am proud that from the period of the Civil War and a little before,
when the cause of the emancipation of the slave was the foremost
question of the time and was only settled by the horrors of a long
struggle--from that time I espoused the cause of woman suffrage. I
hope there will be no need to fight for it as we fought during those
long years but at least there should be a war of words until women
have the power to deposit a ballot, until they have complete
enfranchisement. Your case is just; yours is a righteous cause. I
cannot help believing that the exercise of the suffrage by women is
necessary to the welfare and growth of the nation. Your cause stands
for the home; it stands for political purity, for civic righteousness,
for everything that is for the betterment of the State, and I should
be guilty of high treason to my deepest convictions if I did not bid a
hearty God-speed to your efforts until every State shall recognize the
equality of woman before the great law of civic redemption, as God has
recognized her right before the great law of human redemption."

The appointment of the usual committees was followed by a symposium on
Municipal Suffrage, at this time a vital issue in Chicago, as a
spirited campaign was in progress to secure a clause giving it to
women in the new city charter which a convention was preparing.[49]
Mrs. Ellen M. Henrotin was to preside but she yielded to Mrs. Florence
Kelley, who had to leave the city, and later took Mrs. Kelley's place
in presiding over the symposium on Industrial Conditions. Professor
Sophonisba Breckinridge (Ky.), of Chicago University, gave an able
address on Municipal Housekeeping, saying in the course of it:

In all the things that make the city a good place in which to
work, the woman is as much concerned as any one. When it comes to
the questions which affect women, she has of course a peculiar