Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-09-29
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CHICAGO, Sept. 10th, 1869.-The pulses OF
trade have been more active the past week,
and our merchants have been busy with Gus
| toners. The new wheat crop is coming in
freely, and the warm weather for the past two
weeks has matured the corn rapidly. Alto.
gether business prospects are hopeful, though
we have not the flush times which attended
and immediately succeeded the war. We are
coming down to a solid basis and of course
there must be some shrinkage where there
has been so much imitation.
The cloak trade has fairly Opened for the
season, and the new styles are very attractive.
AS usual, the wholesale house of
j. W. GRIswoID & CO.. 4S AND so WABASH
AVENUE,
distances all competitors. They have the
largest, best and cheapest stock of clOaks
and cloaking, cloak and dress trimming in the
northwest, as customers, after looking all
over town and coming back here to purchase,
acknowledge. Their best recommendation
Is that they retain their old customers, while
constantly acquiring new ones.
THE WODLANS WESTERN SUFFRAGE CONVENTION
held in Library Hall, the 9th and 10th in
stants, was pretty well attended. Mrs Lucy
Stone, Henry Blackwell and Susan b. An
thony were the chief speakers from abroad.
There were delegates and reports from all
the western states. The convention adopted
the following resolutions:
Resolved, That woman should be Immediately
freed from all legal disabilities, whether affecting
her relations to the family, to society," or to the
State, and i'll all these relations should be recognize
ed as mans equal and companion.
ReS0tred, That, as portion of the body polite,
the women of Illinois have right to be consulted
in the government of the State, and particularly in
the framing of the new constitution.
Resotced, That the distinction of sex is no proper
basis for restricting the right of suffrage and that
all restrictions of the suffrage not founded upon
reason should be at once removed.
ReSOtUed, That our colleges and other institutions
of learning should be open to young women upon
the same terms to the other SEX and all the
nues OF labor and business should be open equally
to both sexes
Resoiped, That the friends of woman suffrage
throughout the West rejoice in every extension of
the franchise to classes hitherto excluded from po
litical power, regarding such extension ap-
pcation of the principle that all political power
inheres i'll the people; and we denounce every pO-
itical form of aristocracy whether based upon pro-
perty, nativity, color, race or sex.
Resotued, That this convention urges the friends
in every state. county, town. and school district to
at once organize Woman Suffrage Associations hold
meetings. and circulate tracts, papers and petitions
as the best means of helping forward this move
ment.
AS movement in behalf of women, their
platform is worth publishing as part of the
chronicles OF the times. But the convention
was not as successful as it might have been
if properly called. There was no committee
to call it, and no signatures to the call-noth-
ing but a call in the AgitatOr on the respon-
si6ility of the editress, Mrs. Mary A. Liver
more. And though it was done after
consultation with and at the request of prom
inent friends in other states, yet it could
have the weight OF a properly authenticated
call. 1t did not secure the cooperation
which the State Convention held here last
February did. And there were no arrange
ments to interest citizens generally. Hence
while there was q large audience in the day
time, there was a small audience in the even
ing, when there WAS an admission fee.
ADJUSTMENTS
are rather brisk. Brougham is having full
houses at McYickers. The ''Mariner's Com
pass" is warmly welcomed at the Museum
and Emerson & Manning have a crowd at the
Dearborn.
good rain. i.