The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-01

'hc nave heps uer Oh the breakers, you male
aristocrats? won't argue with you. To ar
qua self-evidant fact is to admit that there
may be doubt. If You say my hands are not
mine say your you're selfevident thief; II
you kept on saying SO, you're demented fool.
GU trample under foot my wife and daughter;
you've made them slaves" Somebody in the
audience cried out that's So" You won't
let my wife say when she shall be hanged, nor
what for. You claim to say what she shall do
and when she shall do it. say don't you?
Woman has no voice; man has it all' Mr..
Foster said he went to the polls for the first
time in his lite this year and worked for tenn
perance He had said he never would go till |
his wife could go with him, but there was a |
cause to work for. II went, and 1 collared |
every man l saw Voting against prohibition and |
showed him the party he went with. about the
meanest looking party ever seen, Laughter
Come out from political parties. and do the
right thing
Mrs. Liyermore criticised Mr.. Foster. She
said if he was her husband LIE would stay away
from the polls under difficulties.
When the name of Wendell Phillips was
first prorosed in the Convention for Gov
erpor, Mrs. Livermore said she was a little
reluctant to oppose Mr.. Foster, but she must.
She professed gratitude to Wendell Phiilps'
but she did not think it polite to nominate
Mr.. Phillips. When men we trust say DON
do 1t, we stop and hesitate. The Republican
party say hold on, give us chance. The Dem
ocratic party helped us in Wyoming, and the
Post is the only paper in Boston that has
nailed our coors 0 its masthead and steadily
stood by u.s. We should see what they will do
by us now.
Mr.. Foster said: We ought to recognize Mr..
Phillips and make him our nominee. He is
| our leader; be deserves tOa be. He is God
| appointed; shall we throw him aside for a
man-appointed one? You say you can't vote
| vote for him-why?
Mrs. Llvermore-Because we are women.
Mr.. Foster-If you can't vote for him, put
him where somebody else can. Shame on you
for going back your friend. Trust your
heads and not your hearts. You've voted down
my resolution, I'll vote against yours.
Mr.. Blackwell-Isn't Mr.. Phillips a cand-
date for two parties that ignore woman suf-
frage?
Mr.. Foster-Yes. But if the Republican or
Democratic party don't take you W, what will
you do?
Mrs. Livermore-Take Wendell Phillips.
| Mr.. Foster-Perhaps he won't come
Mrs. Livermore-He will.
Mr.. Foster-YOU ought TO take Mr.. Phillips;
| the community expects it. No true man or
woman can hold up their heads under any
other leader.
Mr.. Winslow-The only respectable course
would be to nominate Mr. Phillips or let him
alone. Mr.. Foster, "Hear, hear!' Cries of
question"
The question was laid on the table to come
up at subsequent time, on motion of Mr..
Winslow. Mr.. Foster said:
He was sorry to see his associates propose an
act which would disgrace it in the eyes OF the
| world. We have. voted, he said, to go into the
canvass this fall, and not to make independent
nominations, but to take from the nominees OF
other parties those who suit us, by represent
| ing our views, and only in case we cannot Fl nd
| 10 pdi bn Ia mot coti
our questions, are we to nominate new men
L You have said in your resolutions that in Wen.
tf0ell Phillips, the foremost man of the age, we
see the man whom we want for our standard
bearor, yet we stand hesitating whether to &C
cept him or not. He was very severe on the
black ingratitude of throwing over tried and
true friend through lite and taking up man
who never made speech in favor Of woman's
rights. You know, he exclaimed, that Claim
will be nominated by the Republicans, and
that the Democrats will. not touch you with a
pair of tongs. / do not recognize the action oil
this convention as that of the Woman's Rights
party. It's three-fourths Republicans, who
have come here to save Claflin. The question
is between Werdell Phillips and Clafi,n, and ]
say Clafiin is no womans rights man.
Mrs. Howell know that the men who have
came here have quilted us women in a way We
do not submit to in private, and only for the
not the stump! We have not yet taken the
stump, and when we do we will take our owl
stump and take it our own way. [Applause
and great enthusiasm. T Il
nominate Wendell Phillips, and I wish could
see no considerations of safety or prejudice
against it. Wendell Phillips is inexpressibly
dear to us, and if we had the ballots in oul
hands we would make him Governor over
wtelmingly, though you had five hundred Will
liam Clafiins in the field. But the day il
coming when we can place him in higher DO
sition that the gubernatorial chair of Massa
chusetts. Yet if common sense sa-s you can
| not do the best thing, do the next best.
Mr. Foster took up the charges of bullying
by Mrs Howe, and said she must take that al
back as that was not so. Sensation and mo
tons Of dissent from Mrs. Howe and others.
will take no exception. he said, to the breaci
OF parliamentary usage which fOrbids presid
, ing officer taking part in discussion on ac
count of the youth and irexperience of thu
Chairwoman, [laughterl but to the personal
Dr. Blackwell-You are not speaking to thu
question Applause and cries of question.
Mr.. FOster-No, but to personal matter
\ GU women seem to think we men have M
right here, tcries of no, no, you havnt, that's
so, and louder, but we have. We have more
rights than you here. [Cries of oh, oh, fol
# ths' ~ ~aas an IDEA sensation Yes we have
laughter and sensation]. but as it is a woman's
rights meeting laughter have more interest
than you have. You only have one persons
interest You, each of you, represent the
rights of one woman, Applause and laughter,
while have half dozen. [Shrieks of laugh
ter and cries of good, good.] represent wife
a daught r, and have four sisters. am a
woman suffrage man, because women are SC
much better than men. [Cries of oh, oh, &c.
/ am reminded, when see how women de-
fend the rights of the men, and how the men
look out for their own interests and ignore
those Of the women, of certain militia colone
going home from muster, with his sword in hi'
pocket, Tremendous laughter] l mean hi!
seabbard-dont You know man may have
leather pocket [more laughter,] who interior
ferred to save woman from her husbands
beating, and she told him that when she want
ed his assistance she'd call for it. Laughter
and applause.] This is my platform [pound
ing on the desk from this day forward, and ]
have as much right to it as Mrs. Howe. [Sen.
sation.]
The resolution to make nomination was
learly lost by rising vote. t8