The record-union., 1892-10-17
VICTORIA W0ODHULL MARTIN.
THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE CANDI-
DATE IN NEW YORK.
After the Dedication Ceremonies She
VIII Take the Stump In the In
terest of Her Party's Cause.
Special to the REcoRD-UN1oN.


NEW YORK, Oct. I6.-Mrs. Victoria
Clafiin Woodruff Martin, candidate OF
the Woman Suffragists for President
of the United States, arrived here this
morning on the Etruria from her English
home. Her husband, John Biddulph
Martin, London banker and Worlds
Commissioner from Great Britain. ac-
companied the Presidential candidate.
They were driven to the residence of
Mrs. Martins sister, Mrs. Dennis o.
Hallern. Being interviewed, Mrs. Mar
tin said she was eager to step once more
on the platform after sixteen years retire
ment and preach the gospel of humani-
tarianism to every character.
Tonight she and Mr.. Martin left for
Chicago to attend the dedication cere-
monies, Immediately after which arrange
ments will be completed for campaign
speeches which Mrs. Martin will deliver
in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chi
cago and other large cities.
Mrs. Martin gave out for publication a
letter accepting the nomination, addressed
to Anna NJ. Parker and Others The letter
begins by stating that nomination upon
the woman suffrage platform commends
itself to the writer, especially as the issue
is one which was originally raised and
advocated by her as long ago as 1870.
Mrs. Martin quotes at length from her
addresses delivered during that cam
palgn, in which she argued that the four
teenth and fifteenth amendments to the
Constitution permitted the right of suf-
trage to women, and she earnestly COM
mendS all good women to persistently de-
lnand that right.
She next proceeds to discuss. at some
length, the method by which the evils
q hn
sees no satisfaction, except through an
almost entire revision of the basic laws
of government. She says: Even the
Constitution of the United States itself
one of the most modern governmental
characters, is, if you may say, relic of
old institutions.'
Further on she says: "It is becoming
just as necessary to consider the import-
ant subject of breeding intelligence and
physical culture in the human race as it
is in inferior animals. In order to ac-
complish such results new regulations
must be proposed for society. We must
surround the motherhood with proper
conditions of the enlightened age. 1t is
to woman, therefore, that we look for a
regeneration of mankind. Injury to
woman through taxation without repre-
sentation is only the beginning ofa series
of wrongs and prosecutions to which tn
sex is subjected.
Il am not an advocate of woman's
rights in the sense of unsexing woman,
Woman's vote is the only great weapon
of reform. 1t would settle the Iiuuor
question, and with woman in politics and
the saloons out of politics, what NAV we
not hope for? But I will not dilate
further, simply presenting list of some
proposed reforms under consideration in
the humanitarian platform: Revenue
and tariff reform, tribunals of health, free
courts, justice for the poor, bureaus of
anthropology connected with every
police station, laboratories for the ANALYSIS
OF impure food and liquids, woman suf-
fragists, scientific reorganization of the
criminal code, improved dwellings, labor
tribunals for arbitration, and aristocracy
of blood.n