lOll'S SUFFRAGE EiOYS GHOSERl FOR SWEDISH COlEil NEW YOISK Tho list, of delegates! and alternates to tlic .International Woman Suffrage . Alliance convention in Stockholm, Sweden, June. 12 to 17, is co'mipleto with the exception of the representative from the National College Equal Suffrage League, who will be appointed, by Miss M.' Carey Thomas, president, on her return from Egjjpt. The list given out by the suffrage bureau comprises: Delegates—Anna Howard Shaw, president National American Woman Suffrage Association, of Pennsylvania; Miss Mary B. Ely, ConecticLit; Mrs. Morrison-Fuller, [ Missouri; Mrs. Alice Parker Lesser, Massachusetts; Miss Frances Wills, California, Miss Julia E. Rogers, Maryland ; Mrs. Minerva liutlin, Illinois; Mrs. Janet R. Richards, District of Columbia; Mrs. 'Frederick Nathan, Mrs. Marcia Town- \ send and Mrs. Charles Howard Winslowl i New York. I The alternates include Mrs.' Margaret Foley and Miss Florence Luseomb for Massachusetts. Frederick Nathan and Robert Elder have been chosen fraternal delegates to represent the Men Voters League of New York and Miss Mary Q. Hay, fraternal delegate from the National Federation of Women's Clubs. CONTENTED SUFFRAGISTS _. GLOWING REVIEW OF THE STOCK- w HOLM CONGRESS I _____ The Gains of the Movement as There Reflected—One of These Is the Determination That the Suffrage Agitation Must 5 Remain Nonpartisan Politically — The Speakers, and the Impression They Made — The Internationalists Coming Home with a Feeling of Much Progress Made BY MARY GRAY PECK The World-Congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance just drawing to a close in Stockholm has been the most significant of any during- the seven years of the existence of this organization. The growth of the Alliance from seven to twenty-seven countries^ 'the fact that in fifteen of these countries women have won political : and industrial victories since the last con-j gress in London, two, years ago, the fact that in Tlo country has. there been a reverse ! or diminution of privilege—these things have given an air,almost of triumph to the proceedings. Continually the speakers and the president in her running comments, day I after day, have reiterated the rising tide of ' the movement until even the small and weak associations have caught the note, and changed from discouragement to hope. As the congress rounds to its close one remembers,, certain broad effects. First j • among these may. be mentioned Its pic- j •turesque appeal. Wherever It went it was I followed by a crowd. The badges were inconspicuous and the suffragists themselves a quiet body of women. But nevertheless | there was that about them which challenged attention. There was no dlsg-uising the power of certain figures, such as Dr. Augsburg of Germany, with her strong but delicate features, Iron-gray hair, and kindling j smile of friendliness; Rosika Schwimmer of ] Hungary, with her swarthy coloring , and i dark animation: Selma LagerlSf, acknowl- edging with sweet serenity the respectful salutes which everywhere greeted her; and many others, distinct and impressive types. As the women were seated by countries, it was an object lesson in national characteristics to sit In front and watch them during a business meeting. The effect of seeing all those different kinds of women intent with deadly determination on the same thing, of seeing how the experienced countries came to the front and the inexperienced ones eagerly looked to them for wisdom, of feeling in the air that here was a kind of coming together of the clans in a new sense for revolution, was nothing less than tremendous for all who could squeeze into the hall to look at It. A Picturesque Congress The Swedish suffragists showed fine appreciation of the picturesque, too, in their selecting1 the setting for the different scenes of the congress. The chief actors made their exits and their entrances with dramatic fitness. There has been a harmonious and climactic progression from day to day, giving one the feeling that same poetic inspiration designed to give the impression of Swedish womanhood acting as hostess for the women of the world. Everywhere we felt the national note in the hospitality, from the flags of all nations run up by the municipality along the quay in front of the Grand Hotel during the week, to the cantata sung by the women's choir of GSteborg, commemorating the Swedish St. Brigltta. The opening scene of the congress in the State Church on Sunday, when for the first time a woman, the American, Dr. Shaw, preached, there was an appropriate induction. Woman preacher and women singers and organist and cantor faced one another across the1 huge building. The contrast between the mediceval conception of a religious service as offered by men, and the religious service" there given by women only, was not to the detriment of the women by any means, and there was a design to bring this out. The second scene to strike the imagination was the occasion of the International President's address. It was in a hall hung-round with the flags of the nations of the Alliance, and as if in contrast to that glory of heraldic color, the white and g-old ban-' STOCKHOLM CONVENTION A Thousand Delegates Present—Mrs. Catt Re-elected—Great Welcome to Miss Shaw ^ A press despatch from Stockholm, dated June 12, says: The sixth conference of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance opened here today. There were present 1000 delegates from Europe, the United States, Australia and South i Africa. The address of welcome was made by Mrs. Anna Whitiock of Sweden, after which Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt was re-elected president of the Alliance. Riksdag Deputy 'Beckman spoke warmly in favor of suffrage for women, and then Mrs. Catt delivered a long and eloquent address on the history of the movement. Mrs. Frederick Nathan of New York proposed the formation of an association of Swedish men to work for woman suffrage. The Congress will sit until Saturday. Interesting incidents of today were the presentation to the Congress by Janet Richards of a suffrage baton sent by the women of Washington, and the warm welcome given the Rev. Dr. Anna Shaw. The whole assembly arose on Miss Shaw's entrance. The newspapers speak highly of Miss Shaw's eloquence at the religious services held Sunday at the Gustavus Vasa Church, where she occupied the pulpit. ¦ I ner of the Alliance was presented with ce emony, and was held through all that fc.o lowed by three .Swedish girl-students from the university in the national colors, as a i background for the imperial speaker. There was a sculptural stateliness about Mrs. Chapman Catt's address, warmed by the energy and inner fire that are characteristic of her sustained flights. It was interesting to contrast the lyric eloquence of Miss Shaw's sermon of the day before with the complex irony, triumph and grandeur of the International President's address. No other country can show two orators of power and quality so different, and America may be proud of our showing in Sweden. In this connection, should be mentioned the meeting Wednesday night, In the Opera House, where the orators of several countries followed one another, and the building- shook with the applause of the crowds assembled. One of the speakers must be excepted. Tears and silence greeted the words of Selma Lag-erlOf, as she touched upon the lot of those women of Sweden whose sons have gone to the I new world, leaving the old mother and the old country together. And so on. One could cite the reception in the Moorish court of the Grand Hotel, with the cantata sung: by women, conducted by the composer, who is the first woman to have passed the examination admitting her to the profession of organist, with the •brilliance of the crystal pendants and flashing water of the fountain playing throug-h the music. The contrasting scene of the night session for unfinished business, end- 'ing near midnight, but still allowing delegates to go home by daylight in this wonderful land. The farewell dinner at Salts-jobaden, with its boat ride, mingled sunlight and moonlight, the proud, impassioned speeches in the garden where we said good-by. All picturesque, bound together with an inner meaning, and that moaning the relation of the women of Sweden to the women of the1 world. Getting Down to Business .Bu;t. there was.a .sterner side., to the Sixth "Congress. It was not all flags and pageants ¦and splendid oratory and music to impress the imagination. The leaders in a movement so sweeping- in its proposed changes