The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-12
The Long-Haired Brethren and the
ShOrt-Iaired Sisters Agree
for Two whole Days.
MADDOX, OF MAINE, RAMPANT
Victoria Opens a Free Love Credit
MObilier.
Money Pouring Into the New
Party's Golfers.
The Negro, the Heather Chinec and the Free
Lover To Lie Down Together.

The Negro, the Heather Chinee and the Free
Lover To Lie Down Together.
| The party of "equal rightsn who have chosen
| Mrs. Victoria Woodruff rs their standard bearer,
met again yesterday morning ut Apollo Hall, the
session OF the Convention being continued over the
secoSl day for the purpose of allowing debate and
discussion on various matters which were not
| clearly understood the day previous.
| The Convention assembled at ten O'clock and
! great weight seemed to have been taken of the
minds OF the members, for the that they had
a leader at last under whose banner they might
| fight with some prospect OF success.
The opening Of the Convention was strange
| thing. young girl, with rather piquant features,
| a sailors straw hat trimmed with cherry ribbon,
red feather sticking out OF It, and having cnerry
| bow fastened at her throat assembled the PLATFORM
| with huge Congregational hymn book In her hand
and after looking around at the wild men and
women fronting her In the body Of the hall
| for 10 moment, in q furtve way she
| opened her little mouth, showing thereby set
of pearly teeth, and sang song or
hymn called the Millennium This song, as q matter
of course, promises all sorts Of bliss and beatinca-
| ton to the radical reformers Of both sexes in this
| world and the world to come. Several females
whose hair was cut very short, and who looked as
| If they did not comb the capillary covering more
than once week, then assembled the platform and
ranged themselves as If they were about to be pho
tOgraphed on the spot.
Judge CARTER, of Ohio, then offered some resolu
tions which were full of "humanty' and "equal
rights" "brotherly love-" "sistery Affection" &C
These resolutions made the platforms very vague
and cloudy document by the way-a little more
/ RI tho p1arct pIi Ofth
A man, with hideous long hair flowing over his
shouder-"Wall, don't know as how but we ought
| to look little closer at that platform. think 1t
needs little patching. We rushed it through
pretty quick, and object to the seventeenth sec
indeedn
Another man, with tossed hair-Sposc we stick
little amendment into that ere patform9
CHMRMAN-l am sorry to say that your amend
ment comes too late. The platform is not now open
Mrs. SPEAR "a lady with blazing blue eye and q
heavy waterlalDEl think we ought to agree upon
on election day. My idec Of ticket is suthing like
ths:-
The Woman's, Negroes and Workingman's$
>Ticket-VictOria woodruff, OF New York. for$
sPresdent; Frederick Douglass, of District oI$
sCOumbia for Vice President.
| we can vote on that easy on election day.
! Here the old Cockney Indian Father Peter, with
white hair and shaky legs arose and said :'T 'opes
In my art that you viii hadd and the Indians
thought that the noble red INDIAN might be left out
+, Of the PLATFORM
| short, bandy-legged man. with spectaces--
"And have another amendment to ofYer Since
you include the Indian, the Heather Chinee and
the negro, let us call It everybodys ticket; that
Will make 1t pleasant for everybody, and we can all
vote upon it,
After this there was an exciting and tumultous
debate, every one pitching in at random. The men
with the long hair and the women with the short
| hair bObbed up and down in the Convention like
| discarded champagne c0rks in the surf ut Long
| Branch on a summers morning. Order was finally
resolved out OF this chaos, and at the close OF the
empress cloth dress. sarmounted by a pinS
scarf covered with white lace, and wearing her
black hair in the style Of 1880, having three bands
on each side Of her face pulled out, advanced to the
rostrum, and was announced by the Chairman as
Mrs. Bell A. Lockwood, of Washington, u. c. Mrs.
Lockwood, on nearing the rostrum, slowly unfOlded
a huge roll OF manuscript, and proceeded with de-
liberation and emphasis to read her essay on the
social topics; the sufierings OF woman;
the cruelty Of mankind; read extracts from
different laws which bear upon the subject OF
woman, and altogether the essay proved to be %
very able one, containing varied and useful infor
nation and everything went on smoothly until
Mrs. LOCKWOOD on reaching certain point In her
essay, commenced to read, with better satisfaction
to herself, long extracts from the Russian common
law, which,, she averred, had been forwarded to
her by her dear friend Nine. Surtcimskie, from st.
Petersburg
At this juncture the audience turned PALE This
dose OF Russian common law was too much, and
several OF the male delegates, who had faced the
reading OF the platform and the internnable reso
grinned horribly and broke for the door in utter
panic. Mrs Lockwood sat down with thunderous
cheer ringing In her ears. $50 glad.o
A document was then read from town with an
unprOnounceable name In Wisconsin, expressing
sympathy and coincidence with the Convention and
A whtehca old delegate seventy years of
age, who has six wives in Utah, then got on his
legs and offered n resolution; ,s that the party Of
Goddess Of Liberty, In pure white, with the words
Equal Rights" In large Roman capitals, under.
MEATH
Another delegate, with q green cotton umbrella,
said-"I think that-that our banner should be one
with dove, being a representative of peace,
The following resolutions were reported by the
Committee on Platform and Resolutions. 1t Is I'M
derstood they were drawn up by the l0ng-haired
Pantarch Stephen Pearl Andrews, and are like
most OF his productions full Of sound and fury sig
nifying nothing
Resolved, That the two fundamental principles ofgov
and The life S mankind order ana sn
N &c a ee5 Id m ere e
Resolved, TSa. there i crude primitive and imper
ss kind o wS ssss q Of the
the unauthorized invasion Of foreign authority, while
sa ha hgh2
Resoyed that the iordiy arrosance Of man IN deter
mining the sphere ofwoman or Of any human being
Nd f sssns
Wong particular Of Conduct but ss Is one
Of ursdicton OF the deciding power over the very
question whether the thing considered be right wrorg
that the growing spirit of freedom the world de-
mands that this deciding power be lodged with the in
dvidual himself or herself whose conduct Il in qucs
ton and that assumptions of the right and authority to
interfere with and regulate the conduct of others
well regulated mind
Resolved, That 1t is written In the destinies now ur
gently pressing for fullment that society shall pass
through the experience Of the fun participation woman
in political affairs; that the fact will have be accepted
whatever the previous preudices specuaons and theo
ries on the subject have BEEN and that the future
form Of society will therefore, be such shall be de-
yeloped out OF this hitherto untried condition things;
that the sooner with the less acrimony and
with the more mutual confidence and hclpfuness be-
tween the til transition effected the better for ali
Resolved, That not only the fourteenth and fftcenth
amendments Of the constitution OF the United states but