The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1885-02-13
WASHINGTON LgTrgR
lFfon our regular eoFrespondsnl)
WAsHISdToS, JAN. IL, 1886.

The revIvalIst Moody;theJ journalist,
Geo. Augustus SAla; the divine, Rev.
Mrs. Olympia Brown, aud the ster-
ling old war mares Of woman's rights,
Susan B Anthony, and Cady B. Stan
ton, have been In Washington dur
Ing the week AID yet people say
there Is nothing going on.
At session Of the woman's rights
convention last evening Rev. olym-
piA Brown chose for her text the
words, Gan are created free and
equal.' hope Bible readers will be
able 10 find tho text, will not give
the verse or chapter, bur suggest that
the reader commence ni the first
chapter Of Genesis ani Rad until he
tlnd IL. The Rev. Olympia ~ ld:
"The ar:stocraey In power Il that of
the mustsche, whose insignia Is the
spittoon, whose home Is tue smoking
ear, whose outward sign Is The curl.
Ing tobacco smoke, and which Il de
pendent upon an accident of The
body" 1t Is such silly talk ~ th!s
that makes the advocates OF woman's
right ,raduced among thoughtful
people, and II woman ever attalns
the elective franchise II will be In
spite Of the prims facie argument Of
uniltness that every woman's rights
convention presents.
In letter on the same subject
wrItton three years ago referred In
complementary terms 10 Mss An.
thony and Mrs. Stanton as the sold
war mares" OF the cause. By an
accident my letter was sent TO the
organ OF women's rights In Washing
ton Territory. BY an accident II
escaped the eagle eye Of the Editress.
and her paper was mailed to several
hundred subscribers before the awful
insult which my letter contained was
observed. The Editress heard from
her subscribers, and heard from the
Edltress. AS an argumcntum ad H.ul-
i.runl, translated, ga clincher" she
asked me how / would like 10 have
my mother called an "old war mare"
did not reply. sometimes know
when to stop. But what made them
so mad? had frequently referred to
Thurman, Edmunds, and other able
men as the sold war horses" OF their
respective parties. The language be-
longs to the patOis of Journalism, and
is understood TO be complementary
III had called these distinguished
women "war horses" the inetapho
would have been false ia respect OF
sex. There Is no opprobrium III
sex. In the name of sex, OF feminlu-
ty in its broadest and widest range,
protest against the invidious protests
OF the Editress and the enfrachised
women of Washington Territory, and
when to object to tho words "wal
mare," arise to defend them agains
themselves.
Mr.. Moody had crowded houses Il
which admission was only by ticket
and thousands wero unable To hea
him. Mr.. Moody is not profound o.
eloquent. He Is not even grammati
cal, and he uses slang. / heard hin
while preaching and surrounded b.
fifty ministers use the expression
81 can't catch on;" but he is SIMPLE
sympathetic, earneast, and therefor
eloquent. No one can hear hin
without being impressed with hi
absorption in his cause, tho secret q
his success, think, is in the fac
that he breaches christianity wlthou
dogma, and without ssm. Purity o
life, with beneficent work seems t
be his creed, and no one can tel
from his sermons to which sect h
belongs.
| There has been little doing In Con
| gress this week. An entire day wa