New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-05-14
VOMAN SUFFRAGE.
THE RIVAL ASSOCIATIONS.


THEY MEET IN BROoKLYN-MRs H. b. STANTON
F0RGVEs MIR. GREELEY-LUCY STONE ON FL
NANCES-THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY In TIE
FURNACE OF APPLETON.
The Brooklyn Equal Rights Association held
large and animated meeting last evening at the Aoad-
envy of Music, and rather remarkable meeting too in
the leaders and ardent supporters Of the rival Asso
Citations met platform In apparent concord
Mr. Theodore Tlton elongated his tall figure ndoleny
beside that personicaton Of granite and sunshine Mr.
Beeoher Mrs. ii. T. Stanton in an imposing robe of
black velvet sat beside little Lucy stone and calm Mrs
Howe but never word nor glance did the three ex-
change. Miss Anthony looked proptousy through her
specacles but also silent "Peace" say both Asso-
Citations, but there is peace.
Mrs. Laura Curtis Bullard, bright handsome woman
presided in the absence Of Mrs. Burcigh. Mrs Lucy
Stone was the first speaker She took the financial side
Of the womans rights question, arguing that what man
and woman earn together they should own together,
dead or alive She did MT believe in husbands making
will which left his wife only pittance She thought
that society allowed to be one Of only two or
three things seamstress teacher, and paid her
poorly at that She remarked that Anna Dickinson got
larger salary than did any man. thus disappointing
those directors who were unwilling to let woman appear
Upon the conclusion OF Mrs. Stones speech young
lady, brownhared and buerobed trpped TO the front
"love" and kisses" and divers other foiies entirely
out OF place on the heavy platform of aspiring suffrage
IL.
scious, as the brown-haired young lady TREMENDOUSLY
informed the audience that love but only youoooo"
woman bold in thought and fearless in action
Mrs Stanton thought that Brooklyn should feel
herself peculiarly honored in seeing before her
two Presidents of Woman Suffrage Associations. She
desired TO give to one of them little tutoring Mr..
that "even the people might rejoice for the tree OF
liberty was fugrown, and had blossomed out glo-
would blossom until man and woman were equally rep
resented in Government. woman suffrage is as sure to
said Gas The Ia IN ri ism
the idiosyncracy of a few unbalanced minds but the
Te dos 81 the he S e paTH w Si
have the honor to give the sufragef II the Re
publican party going to rest where they are then let
them gather 10 their fathers, and the sooner the
better Republicans only consider maiorities; have
Pro7idcnce has G been n purifying them in the furnace
ii They %Ye oeen se of s Ge
Taur$teTI They have presented our petitions in Con
ress Iha7e bceH in the habit Of crtcsng TnE TETBTSE
severely; hut, considering the glorious position IL has
taken for the last weeks the great fugitive wife
case, forgive Mr. Greeley I've great deal to forgive
him, too. There's the affair OF the Consttnuonai
/ Convention, when he opposed giving women SUI,
frage and then stated in me IaH MAJ Gd,.tfe that
he did IT because the women of NewioIk ana my desire
to voe Al this tax about our hot waning TO nTe
let them take the word male out of the Constitution
and try EN- They say man cant
satisfied with being represented IN Congress by
the non sn Tnn related ne story of the widow who always
locked and barcaded her house at the approach OF the
tax-gatherer and putting her head out OF the second
story window quoted jefferson, Hancock and Patrick
Henry to him The excluded paid the tax himself which
conduct Mrs. Stanton characterized as "chyairols c
ought 10 represent them when they had TO pay taxes
Immediately offer to represent them She considered
that it mt necessary to fight III order to VOTE and re-
and the Constitutional Convention. She thought
that disranchsed classes were never considered by the
ruling classes She spoke Of the home as place that pc
culiary needed the external influences OF political the
illogical and scientific questions interviewer with its IN.
terests and affections The men whose heads were OF
of apple were, she thought, most anxious 10
maintain the dignity Of the head Of the family she told
she tragic story of the boy VINO swallowed te bullet
His father covered his face with his hands sat imoya
seized him by the heels and ingenousy shook out the
lntrudng lead enc hougnt tlat sPce1 VI e S sly
in which the head OF family maintains ms dignity enc
remarked that the opposition OF woman was s.n OF
progress Women at last reused TO say that they
didn't want to vote. If they didn't want 10 vote they
ought to do il because il is their duty 1t is time Tor
women 10 see that the moral triunphs OF nation
equaled its material triumphs.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe made short speech touching
moral and intellectual She not sangune OF instant
result from all this agitation she didn't expect III
good in every heart that would convert 1t immed
ately. But the subject was set where all eyes could
After another from the brownhaired young lady,
Mrs Hazett, the michigan Anna Dickinson said that
this was not affair Of antagonsm between man and
woman. Whether her country needs woman's vote or
not it can't afford to dispense with it, No men were so
lust and magnanimous the Of America. 1t wasn't
womans fault that they didn't marry If every woman
she demanded in behalf of her sex, law To that eject
Immediately.
Miss PhRbe Couzens repeated the arguments she gave
at the late Convention and several times appauded
Mr. Beecher being called for, enthusiastically made
pleasant little speech, in which he asked his audience
if they ever had long and listened to men speak
| Ing for the public good Or if they uniformly
| smoke as well as the women did therei Several
| enthusiastic people shouted Mop He thought that
when women could stand this and speak in that way IT
was an that they not fit TO Vote II
they had led so large audience along the way OF
custom and fascinated it, could that audience stnty
| itself by saying women oughtn't to vote. Certainly
they're competent TO vote If they're competent to i'll
| struct others to vote
"nltonW "Titon" clifton" being shouted, he rose
and said that the proper sphere Of man home and
that he going there. Everybody put themselves i'm
! mediately into their proper sphere.