The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-11-14

to .he expression of their views In this
as ID any other When the right of
women TO vote is recognized there IS
no iear of the domestic peace being
disturbed any more than when the
grown up son exercises his right to
vote dlFerently from his father 1t is
only neeessary that the right be recog-
niEed 9nd there will be DO trouble.
Q-Tif the wife is merely to dupli-
cate me mans vote would that be any
VI s-She will not duplicate it
always and your last question suppos
es sue would not 90 so generally. It
would be gain to have two votes for
goodsmeasure; and the fact that more
persons give expression in favor of
good MEASURE is an advantage.
Q-Do you expect to gain any re
form p marriage or property relations
By women suffrage
Mrs S.-We have already gained
in property relations Immensely. In
the marriage relation, when a woman
is the equal of her husband, with the
same legal and political rights, the
eain sgiit b. --.s-os- s.~@~.~- ss-~-4 a.
g.s~ssa-sziss,s1ifs relation OF equals is greater
thanflat of master and subject.
Q-Do you expect to accomplish
theseby forming political party Of
wome?
Mrs. S-Not at all. Meu aud wo-
men qo evidently designed to be help
meetsror each other.aDd we do not wish
to figt natural law
Q.-It is commonly said that the
votes IF a large class Of men can be
cheapy bought Do you not think
that Homeu, with their poorer chances
to ean living. will be more subject
to thj bribery?
Mr.. S.-When only fraction OF
peopb are liable to bribery it might be
an easy thing to do, but when the
whole community is to be bought it is
more difficult, impossible, indeed. Al
your late political conventions in this
city, learn both parties, in order 10
prevent corruption, the buying ol
votes for other candidates, called for
large conventions-knowiDg that il
woud be impossible for candidates OF
their friends to raise money enough to
buv hrge delegations
Q-There is general conviction
that suffrage has been debased by toe
great extension into the ignorant and
imprcvident classes; do you not think
that woman suffrage, iu its praciica
working, in which the worst would be
sure to vote, and the better sort nigh
neglect it, would cause still further
debasemeut
Mrs SIN the States where womer
do vote it is not the ignorant or de
based classes that have been found f,
be the voters. Ia Massachusetts,
where the registry list was examined
il Boston after several days Of oppor
tunity for assessment, it was found tba
only those registered who were th,
most intelligent, refined ard wealth,
women Of the city. When this fac
was announced, those who had alway
declared that only the debased classe
Of women would vote were apparentl-
as mueh displeased at this result "a
they could have been with the other
They reminded me Of the man comm!
home late al night drunk. Solioqui
zipg he said: Il my wife Is up, II
lick her. What right has she to 81
up so late at night? And if she's abed
I'll lick her. What right has she t
20 to bed before l get home?" Tn
opponents of woman suffrage are lik
this drunkard. They are equally dis
satisfied whether the best or wors
class of women vote. Chief Justic
/ Chase once said to me: Il see no en-
to the good to come from womans suf
( frage, both on the elections aud on th
elected, and on the women themselves,
aud l quite agree with Chief Justic
Chase"