St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-20
SUSAN IS sYMPATHIzERs.
Women Who Want to Vote Say so
to Vast ASSemblage.

CHICAGO, Juue 19.-As many as could
sit or stand in Apollo hall were to-
night listening to Miss Susan B. An
thony, Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooper
and Mrs. Patterson, of San Francisco,
who addressed the Cook County
Women's Suffrage society. Miss An
thony read from the Republican plat
form, of 1884, the paragraph reading:
1--WE believe in the protection of every
citizen in his political rights" and
said: ''Freedom and the franchise be-
long to every citizen by virtue OF their
citizenship, and we have no use for an
amendment to the constitution. What
we want to-day is to secure from the
Republican party in its present con-
vention a recognition that the grand,
eloquent sentences in their plat
form include women. Our secretary,
Mrs. Hooper, was before the Republi-
can national committee last week ask
ing them to put in their platform rec
ognition of wOmen's right too vote.
The newspaper said she was pleasantly
listened to. That is always the way.
For forty years we have been pleasant
ly received, politely listened to and
SENT AWAY EMPTY-HANDED.
The Democratic convention. just after
| the war, was asked to recognize women.
Oul lllClDOlldl NoO ICCCtfOo hlei u JOliy
roar of laughter and referred to the
committee on resolutions by Horatio
! Seymour. Mrs. Merriwether was re-
ceived in ST. Louis about the same
way. We have got our courage
| up a little and we are now going
| to try and get another royal
snub, and l suppose the leaders are
preparing it for us now. The Repub-
lican convention said in 1872, the claims
of large part of our citizens, meaning
women deserve serious consideration.
The women took heart and Stumped the
| state. Who shall say what the int1u-
| ence of women's enthusiasm did that
campaign? The Republicans polled the
largest vote they ever did before, or
since" Miss Anthony said that
in vote upon recent suffrage
bill before congress, of lis negative
votes IL were Republican, and of 81
affirmative votes four were Democrats.
After citing other indications OF Repub-
lican friendliness, she said: "We can
| belong to any party but are for the man
who is for us. l want the women to
show they can
KILL OFF THE NOMINEE
who is not for them. We do hope that
the Republican party will put some
thing in their platform favorable to
women voting"
Mrs. Patterson, of California. said:
Behind parties lie men and women.
Men are human and very selfish. Sup
pose we form party of our own.
woman's party? Suppose we nominate
candidates, and elect them and seat
them? Why that means war, they say;
| yes, it does. l know many men who
would shoulder muSket with us.
| Women know what they want, and
they can never get it by begging, and
pleading and imploring meu to give it
to them."
Then Mrs. Hooper was introduced.
She described her experience with the
Republican national committee Thurs
day. ''There sat thirty of the most I'M
sympathetic men,l can say they were
unsympathetic and leave the rest until
after the convention. | felt like wall
of iron was around me and that the
Millennium was 100 years off. | be-
gan to talk and presently they
smiled, and then laughed, and
then laughed very heartily. l
then left with the resolution, which |
thought was about what we wanted. /
said if they adopted it we would put 100
speakers on the stump and give them
ALL THE POWER THEY WANTED
as long as they wanted it. Mr.. Fessen-
den told me the committee on reSolu-
!
my ideas, and my resolution will, sup
pose, go to them"
Mrs. Hooper's resolution reads:
Since it is plain in the national constitu-
| ton the words people and citizens are in
terchangeable, and the citizens right to vote
is guarant eed to all of The people of United
States, subject only to qualification by the
several states we affirm that the women
citizens of the United States are entitled to
vote on the same terms with the men
citizens. And as sex is not a Qualification,
since it can neither be acquired nor sur
| rendered by the citizen, no state has the
right to make it a qualification for voting
But any state may make an education quail
ication which shall greatly limit the number
of women who shall vote; therefore,
Resolved. That we pledge ourselves as
party, in this closing century of constitutional
government, to the advocacy and mainten-
| ance of equal political rights as the only
basis of a truly democratic and republican
form of government.
1t was adopted by the society, and the
secretary was directed to transmit a
copy to the committee on resolutions of
the Republican convention.