The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-11-14
SORRY SISTERS.
The Woman Suffragists Hold a
Lively Wake in the Opera
HOuse-Aiss Cozzens As
sails Mr.. Hitchcock and
Raises q Storm.
Omaha Herail.

battle meeting last evening at the Oper
house, and expressed their sentiments witt
. great deal OF spirit and freedom. Their
| had been q report that debate would b
had, and this with the semi-official intima
ton that "lhe mesnness" of their opponent
would be shown up served to draw a crowd
ed house.
Mrs. Lille Deversux Blake was the frs
speaker, and made \ dispassionste speech
scknOw lodging that perhaps the cause O
woman suffrage had met defeat In Nebr>s
ka this wear, but claimed that the wOrl
done would some day lesd to . great vic
tory.
Mrs. Clara Colby said that the gathering
was not to sound requiem for . los
cause, but 10 exchange congratulations 70
he grand work done, and to implore Coz
for the future. She said that IL the op
ponents had disiike to the presence .
wolnan suaragis, sgitaiors an the state
they bad better vote for the cause At tn,
next election, provided it has Eo
carried in the one just past, iol
the state would be crowded with them dur
Jog the next csmTsiGn. At any rate, sbs
said, the vote cast on Tuesday in N,bra-ks
Gas the largest ever cest for woman STU
rage in single state. which is u great con
ISOLATION. In closing she put the blame on
the republican party for the defeat of the
cause.
Miss Matilda Hindnan, of Prnnsv |.
sania, WIS next introduced, and said that
she az certain that when the full return,
ere III ii ~ill he iuund that Nebraska is -
Won, an suffrage state.
Mrs. A. Z. NichCla said that she had
been identified With The cause of womsn
sniff. &c hut short time. and felt cci,siGer-
abe ne silsrcy in appearing on the stage
with Ike veteran agitatOrs who were pres
ent. She said her conversion TO the cause
had been sudden aud effectual, and that
proposed 10 occupy The time allotted to her
in describing how 1t came about, and then
gave an . count of her experience in cam
paigniI g in the different polling places in
The city
Mrs Bigelo Of Geneva, president ui
the Nebraska Woman Suffrage association,
was next introduced, and in very spirited
language she encouraged her sister workers
IN the cause.
Mrs. Elizabeth Saxon, of New Orleans,
made ringing speech, and said that the
name vi Sussn h Anthony will flourish
when The Name of Nebraska editors shall
rot in oblivion and forgetfulness.
Mrs. Shatiuck, If Boston, was the next
SPEAKER, and took hopeful view OF the
After Mrs. Shattuck's remarks. Miss An
ihony made a stirring speech. Sue said
that the national association had thrown
more than
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS
into the Nebraska campaign, but even this
large amount had been found Insufficient
and now after the election they were 500
IN debt, which she asked The audi, nee To-
help liqnidsie She said that the post
election is the fourth time the question cf
woman suffrage has been submitted to
state voting, and while not claiming victO-
~, had the cheering thought that Nebraska
has given the highest vote. In Missouri.
Kansas, Colorado and Michigan, the vote
for woman suffrage was abOut one-,hird.
but judging from the returhs at hand in
IL was ai'oIt two in FIVE.
The next Move would te made in Wash
ing,on, where the sufiragis's had an
anne ndm.nt pending i'm both houses. She
told Nebraska electors they must instruct
heir Legislators TO petition congress for
he sixteenth Amendment to the constitu-
ion, and plead with the voters OF Nebraska
never 10 submit the question OF womsB
suffrage TO the popular vote ssain.
A SCENE.
Miss rhebe Cozzens said that in adj
dressing the audience she had hoped To say
fellow citizens" She had also intended
O saw some very sweet things i'm her fare
y, II speech, but rs she entered the opera
,ouse y gentleman handed her a copy of
he last edition of the Bee, and she read
{ an article that had suddenly soured her
weet things. She said she was not going
O paw her respects to "ihe little pup who
ock and the editor IF the Herald She
cad the Objectionable paragraph, aud re-
marked that her father, chief of police OF !
i. Louis, fearing lest she might meet with !
INSULT, had sent her Oad-shouldered, stall |
rart brother here 10 resent any such, and
hat If the contemplate little puppy who |
lad written the paragraph ~as worthy OF
/ she would have her brother give him |
UGH a thrsshing as he would cot forget |
non. Miss Cczzens then read that part of |
he article which alluded to her conduct |
'uesday at the Fourth ward polls.
By this time the speaker had worked her
elf up into quite passion, and in loud
dice and excited manner she reiterated
that she had said concerning Mr.. Hitch
ock at the Fourth ward polls, viz: That
e was unworthy of American citizenship /
nd of the mother who bore him, etc, etc. |
This biz III sentiment was greeted with
forms Of Kisses from all parts OF the house,
$ Mr.. Hitchcock is one %! the most repu-
able young men in the city. and has great
,anv friends.
One prominent citizen. arose and de-
ouuced the assertion ~ false, and when
pine man got up and offered to put him
ut, a Policeman removed the would be
ull-dozer, while the gentleman who made
he assertion remained
The Herald is informed that majority /
the ladies who have taken leading part !
, the suffrage movement and who we're
resent last night, do not sustain Miss
@ zzens in her action.
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