The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-09-30
WOMAN ATTHE EBALLOT-BOX
OLD-TTME AGITATORS AGAIN AT
WORK IN MlSsACH USETTs.


Julia Ward Howe's Convention Thanks to
Henry Wilson. and n Little Advice to
Charles Sumner-Lucy Stone Blackweirs
Interview with Gen. Butler.
BOSTON, Sept. 29.-The Massachusetts wo-
mans Suffrage Convention assembled this forenoon
In fremont Temple. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe was
chosen President, and S. Z. sewell, Abby Kelly
Foste-, Mary z. Sargent, the Rev. j. Freeman
Clarke, Lydia Maria Child, aud Frank d. sanboru,
Vice Presidents. The Rev. Miss Augusta j. Chaplin
of Iowa offered prayer.
Mrs. Howe briefly addressed the Convention, say.
ing that the believers in woman suffrage were not
gathered with any plan OF operation before them,
but were perpleIed with doubts and difficulties,
which she hoped free discussion by practical work.
ers would solve. No electoral disability, she said
should prevent women from working, and she ap.
pealed to the men TO give them their rights.
Mrs. Liyermorc, II. u. Blackwell, Margaret Camp
bell, Gordon N. Fiske, and Sarah L. wilkins, the
Committee on Resolutions, reported that whereas
tie establishment Of political justice upon the basis
Of equal rights for ali aud women is more i'm.
porant than any considerations OF party expe-
diency therefore, the friends Of woman sufrrav
should no longer support any candidate for State or
local oflce who is not In favor OF the
ESyRAScnIsEnESr OF WOMAN,
and In cnse no such candidate is put in nomination,
they should nominate and support an independent
candidate OF their own.
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""' ''"o'eu 'n"' ac0nlmitee sehu memorials
W Wv NoNeH"o"' VI ''e hepuuhoah anu Demo
cratic PARTIES respectfully requesting the adoption
Of woman suffrage a. a part of their platfotms and
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sTA1I TICKET ~ NECESSARY.
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o,,ne saci ~, @ i ~ n menue M In'Ps
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nan' N auhoouoy ol ,hpdtuaI sunraee, ana otclared
tnn ,. .e hdu eaIneu women ttsuluue ana has
lisns . w v.nl monen 'O.es Wnohevei they can De
glNen unuer the form OF laws ana without comph-
Gatlny .hS cause , oi ~onan sunrage Win issues
mercIy rohtlSa. Tne convention thankei the Hon.
nthry vi soh lor ih'ro lueing Dil i9r the eHien
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The following preamble AID resolution were hailed
with APPLAUSE:
Wn>,sds Hon. Charie. Sumner Senator Of M..acbu
setts has declared that distinctions In sur gc founded
mnon nsurmouha6le quailncations are aNolation OF
iflunilcan lllncn,es anu wnetels tet Is qulinca.
w" a. III. IN, .i,cy S'Vr m '"e.eaSIn ~ A.,
mana. ron, he Hon Charie. s1mtep nstr % e
su oIn .son OF xteenth Amendment 10 the Fedcrai
Con ttution for the prohibition OF any political die
uheuoh on account otseh
t6cinl ignor1nce and said that ~ "a oman ue,a al.
inwsJ 10 intrud. the LIGHT sne had lie nrof.sSo's
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woaii be as