The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-01-14
mRREAKERS AHEAD" F."

| BREAKERS AHEAD"
We think the dear women will get
their "rights" at last. They keep
hammering away, on the public, and
on congress, and it is said that the con-
slant dropping of water will wear
away stone. The advocates of suf-
frage for the gentle sex have been
particularly active at Washington
during the present session of congress,
and it is but due them to say they
| have managed matters with just a
! little more shrewdness than ever be-
i fore-so shrewd, in fact, that for the
first time the matter assumes some
thing of a political phasc--an issue.
In the first place, they prevailed on
Senator Hoar, early in the session, to
introduce a resolution to create q
standing committee on woman suf-
frage. This was great
step, one that no other
senator has ever had the hardihood to
take. A few days ago this resolution
of Hoar's came up for passage or
rejection. Senator Bayard moved to
amend it by referring the subject Of
woman suffrage to the Judiciary
committee. Virtually this would
have pigeon-holed the matter indef-
uitelv and was q move hostile to wo-
man suffrage. Then vote was taken
on Bayard's amendment, and 1--WE re-
gret to admit it, ladie5) every blessed
democrat voted with Bayard-
twenty-three of them. But all the re-
publicans. thirty-tive in number,
voted "aye", and the Bayard amend
ment was defeated. Next, Hoar's re-
solution came up its original form
and was adopted, every republican
voting for and every democrat voting
against it. Thus the committee will
be established and thus the republi-
can party puts itself on reco4d, in the
senate, as faVoring a SER
ious and probably fayora-
bic consideration of the question
Of woman suffrage. The quick, 60
ahead, leYel-hesded ladies who are in
Washington engineering the move
ment are elated and encouraged at
this attitude of parties, and are say
ing that the question of comforting
the right of suffrage upon women is
bound to be one of the most impor-
tant political issues, from this out
and that the republicans, in placing
themselves upOnit, have insured their
party control OF the country for
twenty years to come. Maybe the
democrats have made a blunder and
maybe they haYen't-time alone can
ell. We KNOW that democrats are
ust as chiYalrOus us republicans and
Will 60 ju5t as far as anybody to
please the women if they can only
ind out what the women really want.
t might be well, however, tor the
democrats to take some precau-
ionary measures hedge" lit
lie, III order to avoid the
disastrous effects of feminine
and opposition-that
s, if the women are really going to
,herish hard feelings against the
democrats about this thing. Timely
diplomacy might reconcile and even
onvert their hostility into devotion,
or women always claim the privilege
# changing their minds. Now, for
there is the Mormon que
ion. TO our mind it presents q bril-
liant field for democratic diplomacy
gilt-edge chance to get ahead of these
chemipg republicans. AS much as
yomeu may want the ballot, they have
eeper feelings on the subject of
olygamy, bigamy, etc. The party :
lat Will make it impossible for q man ! l
18th more than one wife to dwell in
eace or security anywhere in this i
reat and glorious country is the party r
lat will be eutrenched in woman's q
Elections, ballot or no ballot. Let
le democrats inaugurste the fight
yainst Mormouism and wage it for 0
/ it is worth. Let them make Presi- I
5nt Taylor and the Twelve Apostles +;
irly quake in their boots. Let them 1t
Use reyised-edItion hades about II
tab and pOlygamy, and we venture .
e prediction that tee Lords last and e
st gifts to man will be found on the
side first, last nd all the
me. "