The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-10-04
BOSTON WOMEN WILL VOTE.
Maids and Matrons Preparing to Flock to
the Polls.
From the New York Herald |

| From the New York Herald
Boston, September 26.-Women are
focking to the City Hall for the pur-
pose Of being assessed, as prerequisite
to voting, in such numbers as to utter
ly overwhelm the assessors force.
Nothing like it was ever known. At
the present rate the total at the close
next Monday night will reach 1900.
The greatest previous number was less
than two thousand.
ALL ABOUT THE SHOOTS.
The cause of it all is the agitation
which Justin D. Fulton and his coterie
have stirred up over the public school
question. The law provides that female
citizens may vote for school committee
men in all town and city elections
provided they are assessed, pay fifty
cents poll tax, and are registered. The
city elections in this State all come in
December, and it is against this day
that all this preparation is making.
swinton's history, with its paragraph
about the sale of indulgenees, was
tabooed by the school committee early
in the summer, and a high school
teacher, who had commented on the
subject in a manner which wounded
the feelings of his Catholic pupils, was
transferred to anotherpostof duty. The
agitators including some of the most
prominent clergymen in the city, seized
upon this as an evidence of the Jesuits'
alleged determination to wreck the
American public school system, and q
campaign started which is resulting in
this rallying of the women in defence
of what they consider their imperilled
liberties.
, The watchword, as given by one of
the speakers at the great Faneuil Hail
meeting in June, was; "No more Ca
tholics in the school board, no more
Catholic teachers in the schools"
Meetings are held nightly all over
the city and in the suburbs, at which
Protestant women are urged to register
and vote, and the result is something
wonderful.
THE OTHER SIDE.
Archbishop Williams, Editor
-O'Reilly, of the Pilot, and Editor Ma
guire, Of the Republic, look upon this
crusade with equanimity, confident
that such intolerance will only injure5
its abettors. They are outspoken
against retaliation and advise the Wo-.
men of their church to abstain from
enrolling themselves, preferring to let
the storm blow itself out. Certain
Democratic politicians have, however,
taken different view of the situation,
and within the last few days Celtic and
Italian faces have begun to appear in
the throngs about the assessors. To
day it was estimated nine Catholic wo-
men were assessed to every Protestant.
.. KNOW THE ROPES.
Women of all classes crowd the cor
ridors and stairways. Some of them
have their babies in their arms, others
are apparently out shopping. Still
others more strong minded are election
eering. All are apparently in dead
earnest. The innocent creatures don't
all seem to know the difference be-.
tween assessment and registration.
From the nature of the case it is fair to
presume that the vast majority of the
Protestant women will be able to meet
all the tests Of the registrars, but the
foreign born womsl may find it diff
cult to satisfy the naturalization laws.
A deal Of bad blood is being stirred
up over the question, and the munich
pal election will probably be the most
bitter in the history of Boston.
THE REGISTRATION GOES ON.
Boston, September 2S.-There were
5,247 registered to-day, against 4,12G
yesterday. Total number of women