The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-09

In Council atat. iI.opIs+!They ReIterat,
Their Right 10 Vote, and Ask Tha
the, sixteenth Amendment be Passed
Legislation Defraudca OF wisdom
1ntelligenec and Virtue In Default o
Women RulIfaGe! y liae 4s'S CT
4 81. LOUIS, MayAs,+The platform o
the women sutfFdgists presented 70 th,
Convention this morning, declared the
right Of sell government through elective
franchise as the birthright otths native
citizen, and the acquired right Of the adopt
ed citizen; the. exercise Of which may be
regulated but nOtdestroyed by legislation
and demandsdn amendment to the Fed
eral Consttutions defining the rights ol
citizenship and suffrage so, clearly that
te,yen the Supreme Court can understand
them.
1t asserts that since, under decision Of
the U. s. Supreme Court, Gle male Afri.
can is the only United States citizen who
holds the bullet in every State in the
Union, under the Constitution OF the
United States, the. white men should make
commOT cause with the eSwomeni6 Of the
country In securing national protection in
the right to vote.
1t declares it the duty OF Congress to
adopt the Sixteenth Amendment to the
Constitution, giving woman the right to
vote; also that all State legislatures should
request Congress tosubmit such an amend
ment to them.
1t calls on the lower house Of Congress
to pass the resolution reported by the
Committee on Rules, authorizing the ap-
pointment OF committee on the rights OF
women as citizens.
II atTlrms that the admission by several
States ofthe right OF women to vote on
the school question is the practical admis.
sion OF her right to vote on oil questions.
1t requests all Vice Presidents OF the
Women's National Suffrage Association to
arrange the State, county and town asso-
Citations, and have sent from every post
office in the country petition 10 Congress
praying for constitutional amendment
granting women the right Of suffrage.
1t declares that it is the duty ol every
woman to demand registration us voter,
and present ballot at elections, and to
sue every official who refuses them the
citizens right to vote.
It asserts that while women are not por.
mitted to vote the legislation OF the Coun-
try is defrauded Of one-half OF the intelli.
gence, virtue and practical wisdom OF the
nation.
1t requests, in view OF the errors and
abSurditiesin previous census returns re.
garding women and, children, that Conr
gress viii provide for the appointment Of
fair proportion Of intelligent women to
gather vital statistics concerning women
and children for the next census.
ItdeClares that the laboring men should
demand tho ballot for the unpaid laborers
OF the whole world, that she may with 1t
compel reform and industrial schools TO be
opened, the outcast redeemed, the dram
shops closed, the savage civilized, and
make honest work and fair wages for wo-,
men; that every child born upon our soil
has the right to mental, moral and indus.
trial training at the public expense, and Il
needful such training should be enforced
in our public schools, that there may be
no necessity oil enforcing it in our prisons.
Miss Mary B. Clay, daughter Of Cassius
NJ. Clay, made report Of the affairs in
Kentucky, noting considerable advance
in the direction Of women's suffrage. --
Mary Wright Thompson, principal OF
the Indianapolis high school made an ef.
fective speech, giving an account Of the
organization and progress of the Suffrage
Association there, Of the action OF legisla.
ture in passing the married woman
property Bill and favorable consideration
by legislature OF the petitions for suffrage.
She gave the. men much, credit for what
they have done and arc doing for the
woman and spoke in kindly terms Of them
generally. f.lt @isA.
Mrs. Merriweather, OF Memphis, took
exceptions to some things said by Mrs.
Thompson, and made 1t lively for few
minutes. Shewas q Southern woman heart
aud soul, and gloriea in the name Of rebel,
She denied that the Southern people
were ignorant, or more conservative, or
more hostile to progress than Northern
people. She believed the Southern men
were more generous and tolerant that the
1 Northern men, and that there was more
OF the gentleman in them. when Susan
B. Anthony was being tried in New York,
sho (Mrs, Merriweatherl voted in Mem.
phis, She was denied registration by a
| little lame Dutchman in the registration
office, but Mr.. Harris, now United States
Senator, persuaded that official to register
her, and on election day she was escorted
1 10 the pollsby three Confederate Colonels
amidst crowd OF respectful gentlemen,
\ and cast her ballot unchallenged. The
only man in the city who made public op.
position to her act, on was sour old bache.
ior, a she him g Y Elast LAST ipiths f1 9 gess
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