The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-08-02

lecture last evening TO large audience
in Platts Hall on "HOrace Greeley and
Politics." The lecture was principally
a take-off of Horace's well-knOwn pc
culiarities of voice and speech. The
lectures gave many amusing anecdotes
of the Sage of Chappaqua, and Illus
trated by excellent mimicry the quaint
eccentricities which have made him so
famous. The lecture was great sue
cess, and we hope il will be repeated
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Mrs. \. J. Duniway, editress of the
Oregon NEW NORTHWEST who lectured
last night at PIatt's Hall, on what she
knows about Greeley and politics. gave
as a reason why she didn't like Greeley,
that he had told her he didn't want
women to make men of themselves.
Mrs. Duniway wanted the trammels
done away with, which prevent women
from becoming men, and will not vote
for a President who will not yield that
point to women. Seriously, the lady
gave lecture far superior to the aver
age campaign speeches which VIII De
made on the Administration side during
the coming campaign.-S. +. FOst.
Platts Hall was crowded last evening
to hear the address by Mrs. \. j. Duni-
way, of Portland, Oregon and editor oi
the NEW NORTHWEST OF that city,
Among the audience assembled there
was very fair sprinkling OF ladies:
Previous TO the lecture, band dlscOufsed
some very good music I'm 'front.' oil the
hall and also inside. Shortly after eight
o'clock Mrs. Duniway made her appear
ance, and previous to commencing her
address, recited an original poem,
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and President Lincoln which possessed
considerable merit.
In her Introductory, Mrs. Duniway
explained at some length how il was
that she had entered the political arena
stating that she had been sent to the
East to represent the political interests
of woman. She would not give her au-
dience to understand from this, how
ever, that she proposed giving q woman
suffrage speech she could If she wished
TO, but would not. Woman Suffrage
was something they would have 10
swallow anyway, sooner or later. She
then dabbled for some little time in the
sspool of politics." and in a manner
piaiuly demonstrating that she was no
novice. Again reverting to the claims
of woman, she said il made little differ
ence what the Republican party did for
them, or how much Horace Greeley
loved them-they were all right; never
theless, the Republican party did wisely
when they got the women To side with
them, and they would feel her power
before the campaign was over.
The speaker spoke at some length re-
carding the disaffected Republicans
| They seemed before the Baltimore Con-
ventiOn to be quite large i'm number, but
when that Convention swallowed Gree
I lev whole, leaving nothing visible but
/ the sOles of his boots, they returned Il
their party not enough disafiected Il
swallow the pill of Secession even if il
was sugar-coated with Horace Greeley
/ The Democratic party was not dead, il
was ms full of life rs ever, and at present
was using Horace Greeley as cat.
paw to take out the chesnut. If Iii:
paws were long enough there might bC
some chance of success, but they Were
not. She then referred to what sh,
termed the Bedrock DemOcracy," anC
the company in which these Liberal
Republicans were striving TO place
I themselves. One thing had been dem.
onstrated by the Convention, and thai
is that even Democrats can 'bOlt.i
Mrs. Duniway then went into a brie
discussion of the Republican platform
which was necessarily cut short by tn,
lateness of the hour, she remarking al
this time that she had great dread o
the reporters, and was afraid that they
would announce in the morning paper.
that she had talked her audience out o.
the hall, and with some few remark,
regarding her own paper, concluded hel
lecture, which throughout was one o
very considerable interest, and kept al
attentive audience to the end. Mrs
Duniway possesses q good voice, and i:
easy and graceful in her delivery, anC
she may we'll anticipate doing gooC
campaign duty i'm the cause Of Gram
and Wilson. She will return very sooI
/ TO Oregon.-iS. +. Aif9.