Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-05
A WOMAN FOR PRESIDENT
BELVALOCKWOODAD ADDS TO THE
CAMPAIGN LITERATURE.

In Accepting the Nomination of the
Equal Rights Party She Declares War
on Mans MOnOpOIy-The Dfsaffectfon
Among the German Republicans Daily
Becoming More Pronounced.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.-Mrs. Belva A.
Lockwood, the well-known woman law
yer of this city, who has been notified of
her nomination for the Presidency Of the
United States by the Women's National
Equal Rights party in California, has ac-
cepted the nomination. and has sent a
letter OF acceptance to Marietta l.. Stowe,
President, and Eliza J. Webb, Secretary,
and many others Of the party.
Mrs. Lockwood says that her anti-mo-
nopOly and civil service policy sis fun
NY" and that her Indian policy is 'sgoOd
sound sense" She says: 81 made bid
for all voters, Irish, German. temperance,
monopOlists, anti-monOpOlists, capital
lists and laborers. [ did not know how to
get around the Germans because l am
temperance, and so | said due con-
sideratiOn will be given to The honest, in
dustriOus, hOme-lOving Germans"
Mrs. LOckwOOd's letter from a Western
woman says that she was selected for
President because Elizabeth Cady STAN
ton was "tOo DID," Susan b. Anthony ''too
much of a spinster," Mary A. Livermore
anu
Lucy Stone "'tOO narrow" The new can
didate tonight wrote letter to her West
ern friends, asking about the Vice Presi-
dent, and saying that was an important
and serious question"
BELvA's LETTER.
The following is the letter:
Having been duly notified of your action in
convention assembled, of Aug. %, 1884, in
nominating me as a candidate for the high
Chief Of hp Tuif faH
States as the choice Of the Equal Rights party
although feeling unworthy and incompetent
10 NIL so high place, | am constrained to
accept the nomination so generously and en-
Enthusiastically rendered by the only political
party which really and truly represents the
interests OF our whole people, North, South,
East and West, because ! believe that with
your unanimous and cordial support, and the
fairness and justice of our cause. we shall not
only be able to carry the election, but to
guide the ship of state safely into port
have to say that should it be my
good fortune to be elected. and should
our party with its grand platform of princi-
pies be successful in the contemplated cleo
ton, II Will he my earnest effort to promote
and make equal political privileges to every
class OF our citizens irrespective of sex, color
or nationality, and to make 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
PLACES PROMISED HER SEX.
shall seek to insure a fair distribution Of the
public offices to women as well as to men. with
scrupuous regard to civil service reform,
after women are duly installed in office.
| am also in accord with the plat
form OF the party in its desire to
protect and foster American in
dustries, and my sympathy is with the
wOrkingmen and women of the country who
are organized against free trade for the pur-
pose of rendering the labOring classes of our
country comfortable and independent.
sympathiZe with the soldier and the soldiers
widows. | believe in the re-ena nactment of an
arrears act and an increase of pensions to
widows, believing that the surplus revenues
of the country cannot be better used than in
clothing the widows and edu-
eating the orphans of our cOuntry's defend
ers. l would also suggest the adjustment of
the Pension Office, with its complicated and
technical machinery, which so beautifully il
Illustrates how not to do it, and recon-
ers, whose only duty should consist
m requiring from an applicant for
an invalid pension his certificate of honorable
discharge; from widow, proof of her mar
riaSe, and from mother, proof OF birth. !
am opposed to monopoly in the sense Of the
men OF the country monopolZing all of the
votes and all OF the offices. and at the same
time insisting on having the distribution of
all of the money, both public and private. 1t
Is this sort OF monopoly that has made posi-
bic large breaches OF trust with government
officials caused bank suspensions and an cpl
demic of defalcations over the country. 1t
has endangered and fOstered strikes
MANS MONOPOLY.
l am opposed to a wholesale monopoly OF the
judiciary of the country by male voters. If
elected, l shall feel it incumbent on me to ap-
point Il reasonable number of women as Dis
triCt AttOrneJs, Marshals and Judges of the
United States Courts, and would appoint some
competent woman to any vacancy that might
occur on the United States Supreme bench. |
am in full sympathy with the temperance adj
vOcates of the country, especially with the
WOmRn's Christian Temperance Union, but
believe that woman suffrage will have
greater tendency to abolish the liquor traffic
thao prohibition will to bring about woman
suffrage. If the former is adopted the latter
will be its probable sequence. If elected,
shall recommend in my inaugural speech
uniform system of laws, as far as practicable,
for all of the States, and especially for mar
riage, divorce and limitation Of contracts,
and such regulation CT the laws of
descent and distribution Of estates as
,i,t IKE the wife equal with the husband
IL, III n,tborit7 right, and an equal partner
our commercial relations v it'll 1,H'elgn I,tL eon9-
tries, especially with the Central anu
American States. and the establishment Of
high court OF arbitration. to which shall be
referred all differences that may arise be-
tween these several states or between them
and the United States. My Indian policy
would be, first, to have the government pay
them what 1t owes them, to break up their
tribal relations, distribute to them their lands
in severalty, and make them citizens, amen
able to the laws of the land as other white ana
cOlOred persons are.
ON THE IRISH QUESTION.
While we sympathize with unhappy Ire
land, and deprecate oppression on one SIDE
and lawlessness on the other, our neutral
DOlcy as a nation does not allow any public
expression from our people. Due consider
alton will be given to the interest of honest,
Industrious, home-lOving Germans. Again
thanking you, ladies, for your expression OF
esteem, think that may safely say that
fully understand the whole platform.