The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-03-16

womau's Rights Club, except so far as
by teaching women to think for them
seves it may help that cause" TO this
"Gcnevra" replied in effect: The iu-
tcnlion OF the originators Of the club was
to make tia suffrage club, and they lacked
the moral courage to carry out their in
tcntion." 70 which the BULLETIN re-
spondcd: "'Gcnevra' must be- mistaken.
Mesdames Wardner, Candce, and Stafford
are the originators Of the club. They say
their intention wa. not to organize suf-
rage club. but one ia which women, suf-
lragists and auti-suifragi,t-. might unite
and discuss questions OF general interest TO
the SEX" GENEVA" replied: II c,yl
name three, even six. LADIES
who will bare witness fhat
the organizers OF the /club
asserted their intention to make tue club
a woman's Rights club" Thcgthe BUL-
LErIN said "Geneyra. you have fallen
into the habit OF limiting. Speak out.
If YOU mean to charge Mc,damcs Ward
ncr. Candec and Stafford with mi>repre-
.enting the club. say ,o.' And now
here come, "Gencvra', saying; These
ladies did represent to the women who
advocate wonan's suffrage that The club
was TO be Il Woman's Right. Club. On
the contrary. have no doubt that the la
dies who are opposed to woman's sui
. a flo fte tltuf tho
club would be- Just about what It i..'
hi. j. the present statu, Of the case,
and il must stand where II does uulc.,
GENEVA see, proper to carry 1t fur
thcr. She says the ori. iators of the
club mi-reprcscntcd it, aud We say they
dill not. We know these ladies we'll
enough to believe they would not be
guilty of the charge GENEVA has made
against them. They are among the most
esteemed ladies OF the city. They arr u
truthful a, the day is long, and the
charge of "Gcncyra" that they are not,
must be very painful to them, aud will
not. we are sure, De believed by any per-
son who knows them. "Gcneyra has
misunderstood them. She is lady with
the one idea of suffrage. and when these
lade, said to her and several other wo-
mems rights women: "Ihc female mind
OF the city !. excited on the woman rights
question. and now would be good time
to organize a club for the benefit of wo-
men" "Gcncvra' aud the other ladies'
who think OF suffrage all day and dream
OF II at night, instantly jumped to the
conclusion that the club was To be s'f-
lrage club.
When these ladies slid to the ani-.ul-
frage women: ''The female mind of the
city Is excited on the woman'S right,
question. aud now woUld b. good time
10 organize a club for the benefit of wo.
men" they concluded, like sensible wo-
men, that the club was to embrace both
sufragists and anti-suilragis and did
not believe that the discussion Of the
question of suffrage would be excluded.
Thcy expected to discus, this and many
other question, in the club. AMI this was
the intention of Mc,dames w, G. and :.
| But "Gcucvra" with her one idea, aEt
/ her one ideaed sisters in the cause con
strued the purpose Of the ladic
named to be the organization
of club in which ther,
would be no women but suffrage
women. This Is the kind of club tina
| would have pleased Us, tor reasons oul
desire TO be domcstically happy will no
permit Us TO mention: but ~ are sure il
/ is not the Kind Of club the ladies whC
have been so cruelty abused by "Genev
rt" and the Sun. intended to organic
"originally." as "Gencyra' put il.