The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-07-03
Republicaaisn and Woman Suffrage

J. IL is q significant fact that of the nine
/ teen Senators who voted for Woman
Suffrage in Pembina, all were RepubIi-
cans. Is that party beginning to dis
/ cover that Woman Suffrage is the ele-
ment of vitality which can carry with
/ il the boon of redemption 2 Do they re-
alize that, to save themselves from de-
struction, from that dissolution which
sometimes follows plethora, engendered
by diseased aud abnormal conditions, a
Strengthening and purifying element is
necessary? Do they perceive afar off
that talisnlan which can bring resusci-
tion and Vigor? We do not pretend to
be prophet, but We think we can see
among the wise heads and sagaeious
calculators something more than scru-
tinizing glance i'm that direction. Others
read the signs of the times with like
insight-and tremble. The Holksbidtt,
a German paper published in Cincin-
natl, in speculating regarding the Re
publican party, and Governor Morton,
his Intellectual power and great talent
for organization, says: "But what shall
the party do that is new? Shall it in
troduce Woman Suffrage? Governor
Morton is decidedly in favor of it, and a
large part of the Republican leaders
agree with him. 1t adds, however:
''But this is not basis for new party
formation. a party which made this
project its formation would be deplora-.
bly, defeated.p
But here is the true statement-There
is no great political issue before the
country. Some believe that the subject
of Initiation or anti-infiation will form
the line of division; but this is not so
much Republican and Democratic or
Liberal for all parties are divided among
themselves upon this point rs East and
West. 1t is not corruption or anti-cor-|
ruption, as choice between the two par
ties, for the dullest laggaul knows that
from Republicanism into Democracy
would be like avoiding Scylla and
plunging onto Charybdis. It is not as a
foundation for new party that Woman
Suffrage will enter the list, but possibly
engrafted on an old party to give it sim
ews and strength. The babe born in the
manger is yet to be the savior of the ma
tion. The Republican party, looking
back to the period of its infancy and its
purity, was heralded amid the throes
which ushered in the first symptoms of
hope to the slave, and accomplished his
emancipation just in the glory of its
maturity; and whether now in its pleth-
oric stage to save itself from overthrow,
or as baptism OF purifsation it shall
! take up the next great principle, after
/ the emancipation of an enslaved race
the emancipation of woman, it must
enact that to continue a successful party
and vital party it shall be the party OF
reform. The iniquity at present within
] Tits unfortunate concatenatiOn of cor
rupt Ofiiee-holders and corrupt rings,
have already touched it with the stain
of disgrace and dishonor; it must purge
4 itself from its iniquities; il must anoint
] itself with fresh oil, and break it's old
bottles and put its wine in the newt
must wash in the pool Of Bethesda and
/ be cleansed.
/ We watch the issue. The case is des-
perate. The time has come when some
thing shall and must be done. The vic
] torious party of the future will be the
party which shall infuse within itself
the new wine of Woman Suffrage. 1t is
not for naught that the tide is setting to
the shore-the crafty helmsman will
ride in on the crest of tue wave.-TOledO
Sunday Journal.