The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-06-16
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CINCINNATI, June 15.-Ths Republi
can National Convention met at clever
o'clock, President Mcpherson in th'
chair. Previous to the rapping' oil th'
President's gayel the band kept up an In
cessant yolley Of music. The Convention
was slow in getting to business and th'
delegates were diIatory in coming. Som'
OF them were serving on committees
which were meeting during the morning
and others had been up late last night
The crowd Of spectators was about The
same as yesterday. Prayer was made BY
Rev. George Berher, Pastor OF the FRS
Presbyterian Church.
George F. Hoar, OF Massachusets-Mr
Chairman: l am requested TO present tc
this Convention a memorial OF n large
mass Of our citizens who are excluded
from any representation here and IRON
any share in the government. desirt
to present the memorial Of the Nationa
Woman's Suffrage Association. [Ap
plause.1 Under the order adopted yes
terday this memorial goes 10 the Com
mittee on Resolutions at once, but
desire to move that Mrs. Sarah J Spencer
who has been deputed by the Association
to represent them here, be heard by th'
Convention for ten minutes.
The chair is the motion seconded II
was seconded by several delegates and OBJ
jected by others.
The question OF allowing Mrs. Spencer
to address the house was put and carried
by n ANAL majority,
Mrs. Spencer then came forward upon
the platform, being received with ap
plausc. She spoke "a follows:
Mrs. Sarah ]. Spencer, delegate OF the
Womans' Suffrage Association said II
1872 the Republican party declared tha
il had emancipated four millions Of hu
man beings and established univerSa
suffrage. Where were the ten millions o
women citizens Of this Republic wheI
will you make the high sounding dcclar
atien true. The second plank says, w
have secured liberty aud equality 10 all
Again, where we're the women Of the Re
public little further on in the plank
fourteen. You say the Republi,
can party is mindful Of the obi
CATION 10 the loyal women o.
American for their noble donation to tn
cause Of freedom, their admission to th,
wider fields Of usefulness Is viewed will
satisfaction. The honest demands OF an.
class oi citizens for additional right
should he treated with respectful consid
Grafton. The Republican party canno
afford TO recedc from its ground, takeI
four years ago; it cannot afford to stant
still, 10 be still is 10 die, nothing tina
lives is still, motion is law Of life ant
the party that leads you must move for
ward. We now ask you for planl
that will place that mighty emblem o
power, the ballot, in the hands OF ter
millions Of American ciuzens-tht
wives and daughters Of this fair republic
We asked General Logan, Of Illinois, wit
was ono Of 10 Senators who voted To-
women suffrage in the United States Sen
ate in 1874, how he could speak half an
hour yesterday before this conyen
tion oi men where no woman
voice could be heard without once nam
ing the dislranchised and unreprcSentet
women Of this land. He said he entlrel!
torgotit. Then we say how will II b,
with Gen. Logan II the ten millions o
women citizens OF the United States will
the bollot in their hands forget him. w
asked Fred Douglass how he, so latel!
made acitiEen invested with all the right
Of 4 citizen, could speak yesterday Of th'
continued disabilities Of his race and no
say one word for the women OF this land
Toa woman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, h
and his race owed more for the emanci
patton Of his race than to any man or tt