n,
Dr. Emily Blackwell, Ellen C. Sargent, William A. Keith, the artist;
Samuel Walter Foss, the poet; Lillian M. Hollister, Elizabeth Smith
Miller, Eliza Wright Osborne and Dr. Annice Jeffreys Myers.

There was a long resolution of thanks for the courtesy and hospitality
received in Louisville, which included the clergymen who opened the
sessions with prayer, the musicians, who gave their services, the
press committees, the hostesses and others.[71]

On the last evening with a large audience present Mrs. Desha
Breckinridge spoke on The Prospect for Woman Suffrage in the South.
"Although Kentuckians are wont to boast that within these borders is
the purest Anglo-Saxon blood now existing, the spirit of their
ancestors has departed," she said, and continued:

Since 1838 Kentucky has retrograded. An effort to obtain School
suffrage for a larger class of women has brought about a
reactionary measure. Kentucky women at present have no greater
political rights than the women of Turkey--for we have none at
all--but the action of certain male politicians in defeating the
School suffrage measure in the last two Legislatures has really
been of advantage to the movement. It has put not only women but
the progressive men of the State into fighting trim.... The
opposition of the non-progressive element has made of this "scrap
of suffrage" a live, political issue. It is likely to be carried
in the next Legislature by the determination of the better men of
the State even more than of the women, and the fight made against
it has gone far to convince both that the full franchise should
be granted to women. The action of the Democratic party, when
leadership in it is resumed by the best element, shows a
realization that the wishes of the women of the State are to be
reckoned with and that the friendship of the women, which may be
gained by so simple an act of justice in their favor, is a
political asset of no small importance. It is quite possible that
the party in Kentucky and throughout the South may eventually
realize that by advocating and securing suffrage for women it may
bind to itself for many years to come, through a sense of
gratitude and loyalty, a large number of women voters, just as
the Republican party since the emancipation of the negro has had
without effort the unquestioning loyalty of thousands