St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-05
HERE'S YOUR CANDIDATE.
Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood Accepts
the Presidential Nomination
from a California Party.
Her Policy as President Outlined in
a Vigorous Letter of Ac-
ceptance.
Part of It " Funny" Some "Sound Sense
and the Rest Better Than Buffers
Crankism.

WAsHISGToN, Sept. 4.-The following Is
Mrs. Lockwoods letter accepting the nomi-
nation as candidate of ''The Woman's Ma
tional Equal Rights party'' in California for
the office of president of the United States:
Marietta L. Stowe president, Eliza G. Webb,
secretary, and members of the party.
Having been duly notified of your action
in convention assembled of Aug. %, 1884,
in nominating me as a candidate for the
high position of chief magistrate of the United
States, - the choice OF the Equal Rights
party, although feeling unworthy and incom-
petent to fill so high place, / am constrained
to accept the nomination so generously and
enthusiastically rendered by the only politl-
cal party which really and truly represents
the interests OF our whole people, north and
south, east and west, because believe, with
your unanimous and cordial support and the
fairness and business of our cause, we shall
not only be able to carry the election. but to
guide the ship of state safely into port.
In furtherance of this purpose l have to
say that should it be my good fortune to be
elected and should our party, with its grand
platform of principles, be successful in the
contemplated election, it will be my earnest
effort to promote and maintain equal politl-
cal privileges to every class of our citizens
irrespective of sex, color or nationality, and
to that OF this great and glorious country in
truth what it has so long been in name,
THE land of the free and the home of the
brave" | shall seek to insure a fair dstri-
button of public offices to women as well as
to men, with scrupulous regard to civil ser
vice reform-after women are daily in stalled
in office. l am also in accord with the plat
form of the party in the desire to protect and
foster American industries, and in sympathy
with the workingmen and women OF the coun-
try, who are organized against free trade for
the purpose of rendering the laboripg classes
of our country comfortable and independent.
l sympathize with the soldier and soldiers
widow, and believe in the re-enactment of
the arrears act and increase of pensions to
widows, believing the surplus revenue of the
country cannot be better used than in cloth
ing the widows and educating the orphans
of our nations defenders, and would also
suggest the abolishment OF the pension of
| fee with the complicated and technical ma
chinery, which so beautifully illustrates
| show not to do it'' and recommend in its
| stead three commissioners whose only duty
should consist in securing from an applicant
for an invalid pension his certificate of his
honorable discharge, from the widow proof
of marriage, and from the mother proof of
birth.
| am opposed to monopoly, in the sense of
| men monopoliziug all the votes and all the
offices, and at the same time insisting upon
having the distribution of all of the money,
| both public and private. It is this sort of
monopoly that has made possible large
breaches of trust with government officials,
bank caused suspensions, and an epidemic of
defalcations over the country. 1t has en-
gendered and fostered strikes. 1 am op-
| posed to the wholesale monopoly Of the judi
ciary of the country by male voters. II
elected l shall feelit incumbent on me to
appoint reasonable amount Of women as
district attorneys, marshals and judges of the
United States and would appoint some COM
| petent woman to any vacancy that might
occur on the United States supreme bench.
am in full sympathy with the temper
ance advocates of the country, especially in
the W. G. I. u, but believe women suffrage
will have greater tendency to abolish liquor
traffic than prohibition will to bring about
women suffrage. If the former is adopted
the latter will be its probable sequence.
If elected, shall recommend in my inau-
gural speech a uniform system of laws al
far as practicable for all OF the states, and
|
ton of contracts, and such regulation of the
laws of descent and distribution of estates a:
will make the wife equal with her husband
in authority and right and an equal partue
| in their common business.
/ favor an extension of our commercial re
lations with foreign countries, and especial,
with the central and south American states
and the establishment of a high court of ar
bitration to which shall be referred all differ
ences that may arise between these severa
states, or between them and the United
States.
My Indian policy would be first to have tn,
government pay them what it owes them, Il
break up their tribal relations, distribute Il
them their land in severalty, and make then
citizens, amenable to the laws of the land, a
other white and colored persons are.
While we sympathize with unhappy Ire
land and deprecate oppression on one side
and lawlessness on the other, our neutra
policy as nation does not allow any public
expression from our people.
Due consideration will be given to tn,
interests of the honest, industrious, HON,
loving Germans.
Again thanking you, ladies, for your ex
preston of esteem, 1 think 1 may safely sal
fully endorse your whole platform. Cor
daily yours, BELvA.A. LOCKWOOD.
Mrs. Lockwood says her anti-monopol,
and civil service policy is funny, and tina
her Indian policy is ''good sound sense
l made bid, she says, for all voters
wish German temperance, monopolists, anti
monopolists, capitalists and laborers. l di(
not know how to get around the Germans
because Of intemperance and so 1 said
''Due consideration will be given to honest
industrious, home loving Germans"
Mrs. Lockwood's letter from the western
women says she was selected for presiden
because Elizabeth Cady Stanton was too old
Susan B. Anthony too much of a spinster
Mary A. Liverman too opposed to certain
classes, and Lucy Stone too narrow.
The new candidate tonight wrote lette
to her western friends asking about the vic,
presidency and saying that was 'tan impor
tant and serious question"
Fusion in Illinois.
CHICAGO, H., Sept. 4.-General Butle
left for Minneapolis at 10 O'Clock this fore
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