The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-28
HOW THEY ARE GETTING ALONG.

From the NJ Y. Tribune. ....
We forget into how many hostile factions
the Woman's Suffrage Association is just
now divided, but we believe three or four
At any rate the sisterhood have split into so
many parties and developed such talent for
falling out, that any doubt the public may
have felt about their pre-eminent fitness for
business must now be dispelled. Let us see
then how they are getting along In Massa-
chusetts, where their prospects of success
were supposed by themselves to be bright
est, a resolution for an amendment to the
Constitution, allowing women to vote, has
been rejected in the Legislature by large
majority, and the people seem to be glad of
it. In Utah, where suffrage has already been
given to the sex, the sex despise it. In Min
nesota Womans Suffrage bill, which had
passed the Legislature, has been killed by the
Governors veto. In Illinois, where the ques-
ton was before the Constitutional Conven-
ton, 1400 women of Peoria petitioned not to
be allowed to vote; so the sixteenth amend
ment is dead In Illinois also. But these facts
would have little significance were it not evil
dent that governors, legislatures, and con-
ventions have only reflected the sentiments
of the women of the country, and that the
ladies, who indirectly exert powerful infiu-
ence in politics, are passing from indiffer-
ence towards the suffrage to positive opposi-
ton. Really, Miss Anthony is getting along
very well indeed.
This, however, is not all. Mrs Henry B.
Stanton has been travelling in the West, and
has lost 5000 by the failure of certain railway
connections, whereupon she cries: -''Women
have not one word to say about railroads,
stages, and bridges When we have, OH
what order and harmony will reign With
sober women for engineers and conductors,
| there will be no smash ups, nor running off
| hafOra fhau uaDt " Nnm this 10
| forting promise; and we might reasonably
hope that the dear creatures who have sue
| ceeded so perfectly in governing the nursery.
| and teaching ''order and harmony" to reign
among the scullons and chambermaids, who
have set up three or four suffrage associations,
and managed the complicated business of a
newspaper, will direct railways much better
than Vanderbilt and Prescott Smith, if they
ever get a chance. A woman who can rule an
Irish cook and bring up baby can of course
do anything, and mind capable of tackling
| the problems of the kitchen and the publica-
tion Office will have no difficulty with the
mysteries of freight-tariffs, timetables, and
the right of way. But just here comes an
appalling revelation Before the wall of Mrs.
Henry b. Stanton has died away, plant of
fearful import issues from the lips of Miss
Virginia Penny Miss Penny has been a
jealous and practical advocate of the woman
cause, her efforts being directed to getting
her suffering sisters not political fran
chises but profitable work Thus she
has been much in contact with the
| Stanton Anthony coterie, and has seen some
thing of the "order and harmony" which
reign in the management of their affairs. She
assures us that the ladies of the Reooyution
have no heads. They advertise books for sale
when they have not the books and can't gel
them. They forget to make change. They
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permission. They are generally mixed in
their ideas of business, and loose in theil
notions of commercial ethics. They printed
Miss Penny's name as Yice-President of the
Equal Rights Association, though Miss Penny
knew nothing about it and does not be
lieve in the Equal Rights Association. They
would not answer her questions. They would