Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-01
PETTICOATS IN POLITICS.
WOMAN SUFFRAGISTs AGAIN TO
THE FRONT.

Widow Ben's Following Looked Upon
as PreeIudinG any Possibility of Help
From Him in Case Of his Election-
The Democrats ALSO Regarded as In
fmical to the Cause, Ard Blaine Their
Only Refsge.
NEW YORK, July 3f-Ehzabeth Cady
Stanton and Susan b. Anthony, Vice
President Of the National Woman's
Suffrage Association, have issued an
address to the members OF that organiza-
tion, in which they at great length discuss
what political action should be taken bY
the advocates Of woman's suffrage in
America in the coming campaign. They
say:
During many years we have memorialized
Congress for sixteenth amendment to the
national constitution TO prohibit the several
states from disfranchiksng United States
citizens on account of sex.
The Republicans, both III the Senate and
House. have presented oar petitions and ad-
vOcated our demands. They have given our
association respectful hearings before their
committees and made favorable reports re-
commencing the submission of a sixteenth
amendment. In 1882, for the first time in the
history of our government, Congress all-
pointed suecial committees in both houses to
look after the interests OF woman. thus at last
raising her polite situation to the dignity OF
the Indian.
DEBTS OWED THE. REPUBLICANS.
For this special asz4aleration we were
mainly indebted to Republicans. as only three
Democrats in the Senate and eleven in the
House honOred us and themselves by voting
for the measure. In 1884, when the House re-
fused to review the report Of the commit
tee on the political rights of women by 1876
Democratic votes, there were only four Re
publlcans recorded with them. At the OPEN
ing of the next session, with our bills and
Il fn
the Republicans that we must
look for discussion and decision
on our question, and did they constitute
two-thirds majority we should confidently
hope for the passage of resolution to submit
the sixteenth amendment. But we have
nothing to expect from any Of the other par
and Anti Monopoly parties, with their quasi
recognition of WOman's political equality in
their platforms, and the rank and file of the
Democrats and workingmen who will cOnsti-
tute his supporters, Hon. B. f. Butler would
be powerless to help us.
BEN's GALLANTRY.
True, he has long been a valiant champion
OF our cause, and presented in Congress in
1871 an exhaustive report on woman's right to
vote under the fourteenth amendment, an
argument that lifted our question from that
time into one of constitutional law; Lut with
all his varied powers and great executive
ability what could Gov. Butler do as Presi-
dent of the United States? Assert our
demands2 They say that the comparative
magnitude OF the question of woman's en-
reimbursement seems never to have entered
into the calculation of the ProhibitiOnlsts.
To make woman suffrage the tail TO their kite
is to defy the laws of gravitatiOn. Prohihi-
tiOn could not secure woman suffrage, but
woman suffrage is the only power by which
prohibition could be made possible.
LOW ESTIMATE OF THE QUESTION.
They claim that of all national questions
wOman's right to self government is the
cheapest, and argue that if Cleveland is
elected by the aid of George w. Curtis and
other friends of women, he would be power
less for good. But they say that in Mr..
Blaine we have a nominee IN harmony with
the Republican majority in Congress, hence
our hope of securing the initiative step to
make suffrage for women a supreme law of
the land lies in the triumphant success of the
Republican party.
For these reasons, as we have no votes to
offer, we should give our earnest and con-
scientous supp 1T to the Republican party,
whose chosen leader is one of the ablest states
men our country can boast and who, if
elected, will, with the noble women of his
family circle, honor the White House and
highest Office in the gift of the American peo-
Dle.