The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-08-05
G5t isa'0 0...agt5'pse..
DIVIDED IN nPINInn

--o "oil IAN ouHiaglsis To the East
are evidently divided 10 opinion I'm re-
gard to the best course 10 pursue IN tr-
present canpaign.
The Ee~ Epgland champions. Win
digglnson, Blackwell, Stoue and Liver
more st their head, have decided to stay
with the Republican party, as the best
or nearest exponent Of their views on
he subject Of free and equal ballot ;
while the National Association, with
Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage
and Lille Dsvereux Blake in the lead,
evidently prefer the Democratic candi
late. The Romans Journal claims that
General Garfield, who has several times
presented bills favorable 20 Woman Suf-
rage In the lower House Of Congress, is /
an advocate Of the principle; but, as al
afset to this claim, Mrs. Blake comes
Onward with the following special to
be NEW NORTHWEST:
General GARFIELD is not in favor OF Woman
sufirage. Miss Anthony called on him in his
loIne al Mentor, OHIO, and he told her that be
vas opposed TO e. The Democrats at Cincin-
lau were very courteous 10 the Woman Suf-
f-age delegates-in marked contrast 20 Repub-
can rudeness al Chicago; sull they gave no
substantal recognition IN their platform.
We also see by the New York Herald
hat Mrs. Blake is decidedly ia favor Of
electing General Hancock, her reason
therefor being that the Democratic Con-
FeutiOn treated the Woman SEffragisis
With more "gentility" than did the Re-
publican Convention.
To the NEW NORTHWEST, il seems
hat the matter stands like this: The
play Of Macbeth is on the boards, aud
the managers Of each troupe have de-
cided that the play shall go on without
Lady NJ; therefore woman need expect
no recognition till the farce is ended.
After that she may look for a fight be-
,ween the contestants, and during the
melee another troupe, composed OF the
wiser members Of 10th lhe o,her com
linations, will take ber ui, ,,ld fi,e her
he proper place in the po.ticll lIay.
The NEW NORTHWEST surveys the
scene with calmness, thoJsh b. cet fesses
hat it will not willingly aitil =cting
n aristocrst like Geuera II nclcI, VII
las no sympathy whate yer xi:h the
masses. Around his hone aud iu it are
IL the pomp and circum -ia, e Of roy
Atty. A correspondent uf Chicago
Journal says that ian sroel sentinel
talks up and lown in f i5n. # as pri-
vate residei all day ioug ard on
through the weary nigl - what for,
nobody knows but, tired rud jafed, Ia
sunshine aud in storm, this poor soldier
must walk up aud down before his great
master. At the Generals residence,
everything is done in pedantic, mill
iary way. No ordinary citizen can see
he General. An orderly, buttoned up
and baking in a regulation uniform, re-
ceives your card. A naughty chief Of
taft examines IL, aud. if your clothes
are good enough, he will permit you to
stand before the General a minute, while
ne sits, listens and waves you away.
The ordinary Illinois farmer, with his
face Drowned and his hands calloused
with honest toll, would never be allowed
20 enter the presence Of the commanding
General" The correspondent thus de-
scribes General Hancock personally:
His face is gross and sensual. His cheeks
DUFF Ike a fat boys, and then his whole head
rrows smaller and smaller, til your eye rests
N his forehead, which is low and narrow
The General is "a great eater and liberal
drinker. He takes wine az every meal and
rhisky whenever he feels like 10. High living
and liberal drinking have given him a nabby.
sensual double chin, which hangs down and
rests over his smashed-down shirt collar. He
= lazy, phlegmaiic, and does nothing but eat.
drink and enjoy himself sensually. He never
reads books. II he were not "a Major General,
Re would be country Landlord, who sits
7sund and lets his wife do the cooking, while
his son attends 70 the bar. II elected Presi-
dsnt, he will do nothing himself
Such a man would not enfrauchisc
soman If il were in his power to do It,
The pugilistic type of American politics
il not 10 favor Of woman's liberty, the
new-style "gentility" enscted at its late
Convention to the contrary no,with-
standing.
There is a higher power than man
g at rules woman "a power that no par
tisan scheme can hiDder-as all Rapub-
iicans will learn TO their cost, 1t they
permit the power that fought TO perpet-
uate the enslavement Of the colcred race
10 gain by ballots what it could not 10y
ballets. The Republican party will have
Itself only TO blame II il is defeated
had it given forth a certain sound in
lation TO the fundamental principles
Of a republican form OF government
which underly this woman movement
the country would ere this have an
sv cred back, through millions of won
ea's voices, the mighty echoes Of 1
speedy triumph. But it was afraid
vhen playing Macbeth, to star Lad,
Macbeth. Yet, if Woman Suffragistl
lave no interest in this play, bow muct
better of are they in joining the othel
troupe, whose ghost Of past record vii
down st the bidding Of nobody?
Doubtful questions are getting set