San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-02
BELVA A. LOCKWOOD,
THE EQUAL RIGHTS PARTY'S CAN
DIDATE.

Although the female candidate for
the presidency, fails TO persuade the
man named Love, who was nominated
to 90 on the ticket with her as the
vice-presidential candidate, to claim
his blushing hOnOrs, she has begun
her campaign in earnest. The cOnven-
ton of the equal rights party, 5y
whom the fair BelVa was nominated,
chose her to be their standard-bearer,
after employing due diligence to
ascert in who was the most eligible
person for the distinction. Blank bal
lots were sent out by the chairman of
the executive committee to well
known women sutfragists. Some did
not vote. Others gave scattering votes
for local leaders, but Mrs. Lockwood
and A. II. Love received the highest
number-fOUr hundred and ten votes.
Lille De Blake received none, Miss
Anthony two, and Mrs. Stanton nine.
1t isnOt surprising after this that but
few women known as woman sutfra-
gists support Mrs. Lockwood. Among
them are Emma Beck, Cynthia Leon
ard and Linda Gilbert. There
are two national organizations
which have for their object the obtain
ING of the ballot for women; one of
these is the American Woman Suf-
frage association, whose headquarters
are at Boston, and whose leading
spirits are Mrs. Lucy Stone, who was
a pioneer in the work, and an anti
slavery lecturer before the war; Mr..
II. B. Blackwell, her husband; Julia
Ward Howe, Mrs. Mary 4. LivermOre
and others. There is also the Nation
al Woman Suffrage association, with
headquarters at Washington, and Off
cered by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Su-
san B. Anthony and their allies
Neither association has thought of
putting a candidate in the field, for
neither aspires to the position OF
third or fourth party. Mrs. Belva
Lockwood is therefore not the
woman suffrage candidate, but
an independent candidate for whom
few distinguished women are work
inc. Perhaps it would not be gallant
to suggest that there is any jealousy
of Belva in the breasts Of those of her
sister woman sLtfragistS who Will
have nothing to 90 with her candi-
dacy. Mrs. Lockwood has held some
large meetings and seems to have
financial resources; but it is unknown
whether her interesting proceedings
are paid for absolutely out of her pri-
vate resources or not. Cynthia Leon
ard describes her to be "a good moth
er, a good wife, a good citizen, a good
lawyer, and good, level-headed
woman" Let no one hereafter say
| that one woman cannot speak well of
anOther-in public.
I Ool- &c nd IA 70 hi n
clever woman, and, as it appears to
most people, did not need the renOwn
of being the second time the equal
rights party's candidate for the presi-
dency to complete her well-earne ed
! notOriety. She was born in New
| York state in the year 1880. At four
teen years of age she undertook the
care of a village school, and at
eighteen that of husband, Uriah H.
McNall. He died in 1858, leaving one
! daughter, now a writer, known more
or less as Lura w. Orntes. During
! the war Mrs. McNall assisted in the
care of Union soldiers. At its close
! she resumed teaching, and in 1868
took a second mate DR.. f. Lockwood
now deceased. In 1870 Mrs. Lock-
wood received the degree of A. NJ
from the Syracuse University. After
Columbia college, Washington, had
refused her admission as a student of
law she entered the National univer-
sity of that city, where she Won the
degree of Ii. b. On September %,
1873, she was admitted to practice in
the District of Columbia, Her adj
mission to the bar of the supreme
court of the United States took place
about six years after.
The female candidate for the presi-
dency is an active social refOrmer. OF
"WOman's Rights she has long been
prominent advocate. On one Occa-
sion she presented petition to con-
gress for the passage of prOhibitory
law for the District of Columbia. 1t
bore one thousand signatures. What
| proportion of them were Of.cOngress-
men does not appear. Sc supported
a measure intended to equalize the
compensation paid to men and women
employed in the public service for the
performance of the same duties. Her
name appeared in a memorial address
ed to congress, which made the de-
claratiOn that woman is entitled to the
ballot. A petition to congress, signed
by thirty-five thousand people and de-
handing that suffrage be given TO
women, was presented by Benjamin F.