Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-26
SUSAN ANTHONY
Reviews the Recent Canvassin Nebraska
by the Leading Women Suifragists-
She is Not At An
Disheartened by the Result, and Means
to "Try, Try Again''-Aiss Phoebe
Couzins's "Pup0 Episode.

campaign labors, which, though not pro-
ductive of directly successful result. have
by no means dishesrtened her. On the con-
trary, she expressed herself as we'll pleased
with the result, which had indicated growth
in the strength of the organization and had
also taught the lesson that the right which
they are seeking to obtain Is not to be &C.
cured by an appeal TO the masses, but rather
by following up the original plan of securing
the adoption OF the sixteenth amendment to
the constitution, to the effect that "c1tizens
shall not be denied the right 10 vote on &C.
count of sex"
"We shall urge the adoption of this reso-
luton with renewed vigor," said Miss An
thony, snow that We know th at we can never
obtain our rights by appeal to the popular
vote. This is the ground upon which the
movement has stood for the past seventeen
years; here We now stand and propose to re-
main until the fight is won. 1t may take
twenty years before the different States will
ratify, but every State secured will be a
fixed Advancement of the cause. In going
10 the Legislature to secure The submission
of the question to the popular vote the dis
advantage exists that il the popular vote is
adverse the whole work goes Tor nothing; on
the other hand, a constitutional amendmen mt
once before Congress never goes back AGAR"
10 what do you attribute your failure in
the Nebraska electIon"
"To the combined opposition of four class
es OF people-the negroes, the foreigners, the
whiskymen and the ignorant natives-and Of
the press, which was almost to q newspaper
in the control OF those opposed to us. The
anti-prohibitionists opposed us of course, as
they knew that the temperance and woman
suffrage movements are insepsrable. One
.hi-d of the voters in Nebraska are foreign
ers. and the, were afraid we weuld take
their beer away from TIM. And then the
opposition fesofted to all sorts OF ezredients
10 prevent an honest Vote. A large ma jority
OF the tickets Issued by both parties Contained
the words against the amendment only; and
in some cases these words were inserted in
the middle of the ticket, while the space at
the foot of the ticket was left blank, the OBJ
ject being TO deceive voters, which was &C.
complished. Despite these and other fraud
ulent devices the vots was a stronger one
than the movement has hitherto secured in
aState. The vote in favor of woman suffrage
has hitherto been one out of three; judging
by the returns already in, the vote in Ne
braska promises to be at the rate of two for
woman suffrage to three against it.D
you had pretty lively campaignw
Yes; the State was pretty thoroughly cam
vsssed by the association and vigorous OPP
position spurred all our speakers to efforts
which surprised mes There were twelve
speakers in all, and they spoke 10 some 400
places. Grand rallies were held ID the
larger cities and the county seats, ofSkhich /
visited forty, and great interest was taken in
the proceedings, especially by the women,
whose courage in marking their apprecia-
tion of what was said vas remarkable. /
remarked during the campaign that plain,
homely illustration is the best means of
bringing the truth to the people. For in
stance, by way of appealing to the self-iuter-
est Of the people, stated the supposed case
of peighboriDg farming families, each &C.
cupyiug square mile of country. Here
was man with i've sons, there man with
Eve daughters and further on a widow with
five daughters. Now, if the question of bond
ing the county arose and q difference of
opinion existed, the first square mile would
contain six voters, the second one only, and
the third none at all. This illustration had
good effect in the agricultural cornmu-
miles,"
81 believe Miss Phoebe Couzins distin-
guished herself in the campaigup
"She won laurels wherever she went, and,
had the pfess only given honest reports of
the work done, this would have been appar-
ent to the whole State. 1t was very uufor-
tunate that upon the occasion OF her last
appearance she should have misunderstood
the character of her audience and given
them an opportunity to display their ieel-
ing, but / don't want to be understood as
criticising her. Far from it; during the
whole campaign she did splendidly and the
error in judgment lay not in what she said
as in the character of the audience before
which she said it. Besides the reports OF the
affair made in the Omaha papers were
grossly distorted and exaggerated. The only
paper which Supported US was the Omaha
-Repttbliean; and that changed its policy tow
ard the close of the Campaign. One of its
writer's gave fair account of Miss Cou1ins's
speech, but it was not published. Abiding
to a publication in the Omaha Bee,
she used the expression, the pup who
wrote that article aud the words were fol-
lowed by storm of misses. At this meet
ing the statement was made that fraudulent
tickets were used by the anti-suffragists, at
which the mayor of the city called out,
False as hellP A gentleman rebuked the
mayor for using the vile expression, when
the latter objected to any ones finding fault
with him, and called upon policeman to
put the gentleman out, which was DONE"
Miss Anthony declared again that she was
by no means disheartened by the result in
Nebraska; which was fully as advantageous
as she had anticipa. ed. She stated that she
was going to leave on the evening train for
Washington, where she would resume her
labors for the sixteenth amendment.