St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-16
WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS.
The annual Session of the State ASsocia-
tom.


The An1lWdt Session of the State AssOcia-
ton.
The annual convention of the State Wo-
man Suffrage association is now in session
in this city. Mrs. DR.. Ripley, the president
occupies the chair
At the yesterday mornings session Mrs.
Whitaker, from Point Douglas, made a
short address. She urged upon everyone to
do and say something in the cause. Not all
can do as much as Lucy Stone, yet they can
show their good will and do something
When she was girl it would have been a
matter of establishment to the world to an
nounce that a woman had delivered a lee
ture. The only employment that was open
TO them was teaching school.
When the speaker had been worn
out in that labor, she fell into
the common habit-matrimony. She was
aware that the average housewife had as
much work to perform as 90 the ladies en-
ployed in the printing Office or the dental
profession. The wife works 365 days in the
year and gets no credit for it. Yet she
would not say that men were worse than wo-
men under similar circumstances. She
thought the only reason tine men refused the
women the ballot was because they have the
possession, and possession is said to be nine
points in law. Every other objection has
been overthrown time and again. Woman
will never be what she should be until she
has equal rights TO ballot and money with the
men.
An effort to go into secret session failed
TO carry.
RESOLUTIONS
The committee on resolutions submitted
the following report. which was adopted:
WHEREAS, Believing that under Repub-
lican form of government, suffrage is a
citizens right, and that women are citizens,
and furthermore that women are unjustly
debarred from the use of the elective fran
chisc and should be allowed the exercise of
this right, on the same terms and for the
same reasons that il is granted to men.
RESOLVED, That we urge the advocates of
woman suffrage to make the year one OF in
creased effort throughout the state, doing the
work that is to be done by argument, by pc
tition, by the circulation of suffrage litera-
ture, and by any other means whereby the
minds of thoughtful men and women NAV
be awakened to the true meaning of the
words, ga government of the people, for the
people and by the people.''
Resolved, That much of the success of
our movement depends on the views of in
dividual Legislators and holders of
office, and that il is therefore incum-
bent on the friends of woman
SUFFRAGE to prevent by all fair means the
election of anti-suffragsts to responsible
| offices and to seats in the state legislature
and to congress, and at the same time to
work zealously for the election of suffragists
to the above places Of trust.
ReSOlged, That We recommend for the
consideration of the Republican and Demo
cratic parties the fact that the growing senti-
ment in favor of woman suffrage indicates
that the great party of the future will be one
| which gives assurance OF telling deeds in
behalf of enfranchisement, instead Of fair
words and empty promises.
Resolved, That while we deplore the exis-
tence of polygamy among the Mormons and
trust that the best methods may be used to
lead those practicing it to higher plane of
domestic life, we consider any effort to dis
franchise the women of Utah which does not
also aim to disfranchise the more criminal
men, gross and crying injustice.
ReSOtyed, That we the members of this
association feel the responsibility which lin
tied school suffrage places upon Us, and that
we will continue to use the ballot as best we
may for the improvement of the schools of
our land, aud urge more general use of it
among women.
Resolpei, That we are rejoiced and en-
couraged by the successful operation of
woman suffrage in Washington territory,
and we consider the fact that women not
only vote and become members of iuries,
but attend the primaries aud are elected
delegates to the county and territorial con-
ventiOn the best refutatiOn of the falsehoods
which have been circulated in regard TO
woman suffrage in Wyoming territory, and
in view of the fact that perfect harmony as
characterize the actions of men and women
Of Washington territory in this work, we ex
tend to them our hearty congratulations.
The Status fthe judiciary Int1rogIfo.
To the Editor OF The Globe.
Permit me, through the columns Of your
admirable paper, to call TO the attention of
the people Of Hennepin county the present
status of the judiciary question. Being a
member Of the peoples party myself, and
having, as 1 trust, both the national and
local interests Of that party ct heart, can
not in justice either to the principles which
that party has espoused, or to my own con-
victions, permit myself to keep silent while
matters Of such moment are transacting
around us; of moment not Only to the body
of the people at large, but more especially if
anything to those who have aTrayed them
selves under the name Of the labor reform
party. So many communications have of
late appeared in the columns of the differen
daily papers, signed now "Amicus Curiae''
or now ''Yindex," now again ''FledgliEg, ~
and again MANY Attorneys" and all of
them anonymous, that 1 confess my
self strongly inclined to write over my true
name IN order that might seem TO be pos
sessed Of high degree of moral courage,
we're It not for the timorous, yet well
grounded apprehension that the friends of
Judge A H Young, as well as that amiable
gentlemen himself, might apply TO me GER
tain process Of 'spOttiDg," whatever that may
mean Indeed, understand, and from su-
thentic sources, that certain Of my learned
and esteemed contemporaries at the bar OF
Hennepin county, have been and now are
actually spotted for presuming TO oppose
the Hon. A H. Young, and
his succeeding himself on the bench Of the
Fourth district
Ike writer OF this communication casually