Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-10-28
yEW YORK LETTER
.,rrToAL PREsRREyoEs OF WELL.
KNOWN AmkRTcRS WOMEN.
o,c niscass the Issues Of the Campaign
-. celebrated "old Toms" OF Temple
street.-The stan Of Life.
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street.-The Stan Of Life.
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NEW York, October 81. 1888
,tro previous time in the history az
republic have intelligent women
% Interested as at present m
e.. i~sacS They are earnest speo-
-. ol the coming election, and are
raging the indifferent and unin.
q ,...t among the sex to study IN tho
q questions OF the day and prepare
= ,ss Tor the dUty Of voting W ben.
,.. tmo. Il shall como 10 them. Tho
81 =. t1e temperance party has acan-
~ She field makes it oil the more
|.'ir- 20 women, nine tanths
4 , raam are temperance advocates.
T. fact that II the voting
4 'rro should DO given 20
4 .. today. the entire Woman's Tenn
Il ..r. Cirstlon Union, with very few
j ... .ns would vote for General Gin
n, fisk for President. There are
4 -fs % 2f0. GOO members IN the or
i tau, nnd thcv would likely indn-
i e.. many moro voters among their own
THO ank and bIe OF women are
4 ,-..clv interested in the campaign
...a % does not vitality concern them
,tea once they are called upon 10
.... sizes as the women Of Boston have
4. t. do they viii quickly enter poll
. .. voto rs judgment or prejudice
So Ten years hence, It is predict
. .v uiI DO voting in the majority Of
q, -.aps, as they are now doing in
1g Kansas, Nebraska, aud other
H.e
WHAT THY SAY.
I CANVASS among many well-known
oi he professional class has been
-... Md with tho result depicted be-
Cd. TO the questions would they vote
. ..tv could and for whom, the ladies'
..... a1.vors as follows:
!, ..unie ,iune" writes of / had a
4 --.- eco for any political candidate it
favor the present occupant Of the
i -.... Eouse, President Cleveland. The
.l. Me: First. That he has shown
conscientious and courageous in
..l .n, WISE and temperate IN his Iudg-
-I md steadast IN his adhesion TO
.. le. Secondly, because his prin-
fcor the economical and really
use administration Of national
.,e,a
WISE WOMAN.
1i.n Whiting says in reply to our
I.a Kindly ask me TO name my
q presidential caud idates and de-
O., reasons for the faith that is in
4hs I am not an advanced
Although rs ] have lived in
seven years, period in which
additionally supposed TO be made
md therefore claim the privilege
ag myself q Bostonlan, do not
... .u go mg environment. ! have
. voted, even on school suffrage.
90 remember the distinctions
.. tariff ] vaguely grasp that
l.ut Cleveland IL on one
nd General Harrison on tho
add that General Fisk represents
Iu0u. and / know not what else,
..t.r al seem 20 me men so able aud
... tIat fail to perceive any reason
.... country should not prosper glo-
ruaier either. In fact, am in
liiIou oi tho lover who sings:
M Apply Could I be with Either,
r u.hcr Dcar ChaImer Away /
-. ty Admit that ] have no political
lions and far more rights than 1
.. a...iJ use
rIs. POSTER AND MRS. STANTON
N.. y. Ellen Foster il an ont and-out
., bean, and has issued with Others
.rcss oi the Nomau's Repubh-
E4uuN Committee" asking the
-.. Of tho country to support the
bean party.
.ia Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Others issued a similar address urg-
men 10 work for the reelection OF
70 Grant Mrs Foster IS a leader
W,man's Temperance Christian
hut She is not IN favor Of the
9uon party.
stanton favors both tho Labor
ulml0n parties, and thinks that
woman suuagsts can DO nothing
.-t ue consistent. ." it is needless,
..A "Tretencing 20 belong to any
t.- pohl .ai parties We have no 0OteS
Up meke or break parties, and we
l.ttlem live or die rs the cnse
I Ie. until such time as some one OF
..a sees ft 10 give us the only iegitI-
power by which We can help them-
f.e Use vi the ballot.
DIFFERENCES or OPINION.
s. George W. Childs Of Philadel-
wants Cleveland reelected, on
.. Dlegeland's account particularly.
.r stone as q Republican, and
.s there Is more hope for woman
zee from that party than from any
.-. not excepting the Prohibition.
ARA Narton rs "a WOmau's suilraglst
f. caro-, little for the issues of the
a.tu.
U.s. Martha J. lamb, the editor OF
frg0-i,sa Of AssfricGa Li'S'0fy,
81 vote FOR Cleveland ii she could.
10 would Miss Glider OF the Cri'c'
Mss Middle Morgan devotes her time
a.j attention % cattle and prefers them
n candidates. but she thinks Harrison
.rr. T. TO be elected because he Is a he-
alhcan.
Mrs. Hottie Green, the millionaire
nancier, says IT is "a matter Of no con
.era to her who wlns the Office OF Presl-
cent. She IS 10 politician.
tfrs Jeanette 1hurbcr would vote
with lcr husband. Frank q. Thurber,
LOT Cleveland # she could. She does
.,t care for politics bat if women were
voting ehe would try TO elect q Demo
alto candidate for once.
MIS- ABEAM s. HEWITT
.e Democrat and ought TO have the
wer 10 vote for her husband. She
u'i make good use OF the privilege
..I 600 tine whole Democratic State aud
I.uona ticket.
Hs Mary L. Eastman, the we'll
.1un suffrage leader, says she would
DID,, 20 vote very much, but she Will LOT
o. which Of the candidates she would
,.r with her ballot, Her friends