The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-09-27
THEODORE TILT0N AND MRS,
WOODRUFF.

Theodore Tilton has undertaken
the special championship of Mrs.
Victoria G. Woodruff and her claims
for the Presidency. From the office
of the Golden Age he has issued
a series of tracts, one entitled 1.-The
Sin of Sins" another "The JConst-
tuition a Title Deed to Woman's
Franchise" devoted to an examina-
ton of the social evil, and of the
rights of women under the new
amendments. But the most remark
able piece of handicraft which has
come under our observation is a
pamphlet by the same author en-
titled, Biography of Victoria c.
Woodruff" Most men would con-
slider this work the emanation of a
lunatic were it not acknowledged or
claimed by Mr.. Tilton. America
has produced many extraordinary
campaig On documents, but the BIZ
ography is the most wonderful pro-
duetion in that line that the public
are likely to read for many years to
come. 1t is surprising that a man
entertaining such ideas IS those ex-
pressed in this book could W. held
the position of editor Of a religious
paper so generally accepted Icy one
of the most orthodox of denomina-
tions-the New York Independent.
1t is true that as the manager OF that
paper he occasionally enumerated
some exceedingly loose doctrines
but in this last work he expresses
sentiments which show that in a re-
ligious point of view he is complete
ly given over to the Devil. He is a
spiritualist of the widest, craziest
sort !; and the chief merit in Mrs
Woodruff, eliciting the most insane
> eulogies. is that she is of the same
way of thinking. She is advanced
as the champion of woman's right to
the ballot, but is made but a fimsy
cover for an advocacy based appar-
emily on her religious, or anti-religi-
Gus, predictions and antipithies,
She is made by this tract the Presi,
Dental candidate of the spiritualists
of the country.
Mrs. Woodruff is nominated by
Mr.. Tilton for the Presidency, yet
somewhat strangely the first page o.
the biography shows that she is now
Ineligible for the position. She
was born in Ohio in September
1888. The Constitution requires
President to be 80 years of age. Sht
therefore falls short of the require
ment by two years-too late, at least
for the next term, even if this thins
were not a mere burlesque, and ad
vertising dodge.
We are told that she was nance
after Queen Victoria, and has Away:
regarded the name as a presage o
triumph over all opposition. He.
parents are described as monsters
both of them religious monomaniacs
spiritualists before the name wa
coined, seeing visions, and dreaming
dreams. Her father" We told
, in the opinion of some, became
partially crazed," and the mothe,
was never wholly sane" Mr. Tiltor
says:
just here, if any one asks, "How i:
it that such parents should not have
reproduced their eccentricities in theil
children?" l answer, This is exactly
r what they rave done" The whole
r brood are OF the same feather-eXcep
Victoria and Tennie. What languag,
shall describe them? Such anothel
, family circle of cats and kits, with sof
, fur and sharp claws, purring at on,
moment and fighting the next, neve
before filled one house with thei
clanors since Babel began. They low,
and hate-they do good and evil-the,
= bless and smite each other. They ar
a sisterhood of furies, tempered will
L loves melancholy.
Having thus introduced his sub
: iect, we are told of the hardships O