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The Federal Suffrage Association

Judge C. B. Waite, Chicago, Illinois—Address.

Rev. Olympia Brown, President Wisconsin W. S. A.— "Federal Suffrage/ Mrs. Elizabeth Boynton Harbert, Evanston, 111.—"The Statesmanship of Women, and Our Motherless Government."

Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, Portland, Ore.—Paper to be read by Dr. Helen Reynolds Kellogg, Chicago.

Unfortunately the infant Federal Suffrage Society, after a short time was crippled by the death of prominent officers and became partially inactive. Rev. Olympia Brown, the acting president, by the death of her husband and the long invalidism of her mother, was necessarily occupied with business activities and domestic duties, and unable to carry on the work as planned. For a time only sporadic attempts at propaganda were made here and there. Memorials were sent to the great national conventions of the great political parties asking for recognition in their platforms and appeals were made to Congress by petitions and memorials. Thus while the idea was kept alive, the work was not done, and the results expected from the auspicious beginning were not realized. The failure was a great sorrow to many, and an immense loss to the woman's suffrage cause.