Omaha daily bee., 1884-10-24
BELVA'S BARK. AFLOAT.
Considerable Biased BuStlG Over The
Lockwood Candidacy.
She Trims the Sail OF Bieak-Eyed
Ben, and Talks of Rome
and Victory.
New York, Oct, 10.

New York, Oct. 10.
To the Editor of The BEE:
AS woman in sympathy with fell.
low q woman in all things good and
pure, your correspondent called to-day
on Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood at the Fifth
Avenue hotel, in this city, where she is
stopping, to gain, it possible, from her
own lips better acquaintance with the
principles of the party of which she has
been chosen representative. Meeting for
the tirst time women are quick to i'm
pressions and lose little of detail, and l
am free to say that it has been my good
fortune to meet few of my sex with
whom have been more favorably i'm
pressed than with this pleasant spoken,
quiet little lady, who is generally sup
posed to represent an aggressive an un-
feminine party. However hard the
battles this woman may have been forced
to fight, however unjust the opposition
that frmness alone has enabled her to
overcome, they certainly have not rem
dered her one whit the less womanly, or
less like the ideal we have of a mother.
In reply to my question as to her
hopes and the principles of her party,
she said
my hopes are boundless. My princi-
pies are the principles of my party aud
are best explained in this, handing mo
copy of their platform.
~ am in receipt of letters from all
over the country" she continued, "show-
ing that the sympathy with our move
ment is greater than we ever dared to
expect. We have a full electoral ticket
in New Hampshire, California and Ar
kansas. We have established headquar
terra in many large cities all over the
country, which enable us to keep well
informed of the feeling, numbers, condi-
tion and supporters of our party"
When asked if she had seen in the N.
Y. Times of to-day, the statement of
General Parsons in regard to the trsach-
cry of Benjamin BrTtler to his party, and
what she thought of it she sail:
"Most astounding if true.
"And il proved true would it surprise
yop7'
Il cannot say that it. would, although
the surprise would boa painful one as
General Butler is friend of mine. But
his position, and the position of the party
of whom he Is supposed 60 be the repre-
sentative is, It seems to me, SO uncertain
and their platform and principles they
have established cover so much ground,
that one cannot see just where or how
they are to be applied, and in many points
seem to contradict themselves. cannot
see, consinued Mrs. Lock wood lust
whattMr. Butle7's motives are or what he
expects to gain from the etand he has
taken, as his election to tho presidency
is of course out of the question. He may
of course ssy the same ching Of me-" she
,aid, laughing, but l expect not 80
much to accomplish purpose as to es-
tsblish q precedent. To prove to the
PEOPLE the fast that though woman can
not vote she may be voted for,
thats though she cannot elect
another to Office, she can be elected to
and hold Office under our existing laws
and government. BY coming forward at
this time the party represent have been
able to better bring their views and plat
form before greater bo3y of people
than ever bsfors-have as it were, teken
advantage of crisis to march many
miles nearer Roae and ultimate victory"
When asked whether,it she became the |
next occupant of the White House, she
would establish Lucy Hayes kitchen
system of temperance, she called atten-
ton to the Gfth plank of the equal rights
party, "of which, she said, "I am the
author, and which reads as follows:
"'WNe she'll dis, ,ountenance by every legal
meansthe ligpor traffic, because its tendency |
is to demoralise the youth of the land; to
lower the standard of morality among the peo-
pie, and we do not believe that the revenue
derived from. it would feed and clothe the pau. |
pers that it laakes and the money expanded
on its acoount in courts, warehouses; and pri-
sons
have been waited upon to-day by a
representative of the Manhattan temper
ance union, who requested me to speak
at their meeting tonight, but owing to
made, was compelled to
decline"
Mrs. Lockwood also stated that she had
had numerous callers to-day, among
others one who, evidently believing there
was nothing in name" entered her
presence with 81 am the editor of the
Tribune, Madam, and this is my wife.