St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-27
WOMEN AND BALLOTS
Speakers and Ballots Tell Us
Why They Should Go
Together.
Otto w. Miller and Frank G.
Mcmillan for the School
Board.
Annual Report on the Chari-
table Work Of the Whole
City.
Health officer Kelly on Quar-
antining--Round-Up Of
the Town.

outAiIIIiS -nOuilu-Op VI
the Town.
A meeting in the interest of Mrs.
Crays. the Republican and Prohibition
nominee for member of the school
board, was held last night in the Ly-
ceum theater. Several hundred people
attended the meeting. and were enter
tanned with some splendid specchmak-
| ing. The speakers were Henry b.
Blackwell, of Boston, and his daughter.
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell; Rev. Hol-
man. of the Hennepin Avenue Method
list Episcopal church, and Rev. S. w.
Sample, who acted as chairman of the
meeting. Rev. Sample. previous to i'll
Producing the other speakers. made
few remarks advocating the cleo
ton of woman as member of the
school board and woman'S suffrage in
general. The recognition of woman'S
equality i'll her rights, to man. was
growing and coming. The trend OF the
age. he said, was Enthusiastically in this
direction. The people of Minneapolis
wanted their schools conducted on the
broadest and most high-minded princi-
| pies. 1t was. therefore. meet to elect a
woman to take part IN the deliberations
of the board having the public schouls
in charge. Mrs. CrayS was the proper
woman for the place. She was emf
nently qualified ami equipped for the
| position. and her pres ...c.. would tend
| TO elevate and purify ,.le morals of the
J schools, as the presence OF any good
woman tends to purify ami el, Y i the
morals OF community.
Miss Blackwell. who followed Rev.
Sample, proved herself public speaker
| OF considerable merit, and well posted
on the subject of WOman's suffrage
She was diplomatic, too. and declared
herself as more than delighted with the
Flour City and its beautiful scenery
But she gave her native city, poor effete
| Boston, quite dig by referring to it as
a conservative and hide-bOund, though
respectable community" LII Boston
she said there were four women who
held positions as members of the school
board. and so well did they do their
work that old Boston could not, and
would not if it could, get along without
them. In the state of Massachu-
sets there are fully 100 women
on the various school boards. Miss
Blackwell explained that these women
were elected by no one party, but their
election was due to non-partisan voting
entirely. She told of the good they
were accomplishing and the vast bene-
mt they were proving to the schools in
general. 1t was not because they were
superior to men at all. but because they
were so radically unlike and could do so
many things and arrange so many things
for the comfort and the benefit of the
school children that men could not and
would not do. Women know so much
more OF the care of children, and if men
know more of business and business
affairs the two can work together in the
composite affair. There are five reasons.
according to Miss Blackwell, why wOm-
Ell should be made members of the
school boards. The first reason was
that women never seek positions of the
kind as stepping stones to something
higher III the line of Office. In the sec
Ond place, seyen-eightllS of the teachers
of the public schools are women. and it
is agreed, said Miss Blackwell. that
women are better Judges of women than
men. In the third place, half of the
school children are girls. and certainly
women know more about girls than
men. In the fourth place, the speaker
said women lave more leisure than
men, and can therefore pay more atten-
ton TO the duties of the position. In
the fifth place, women are so radically
different from men. and can see things
to be done that men would never dream
about.
Mr.. Blackwell spoke when his daugh-
ter had concluded, and the favorable i'm
preston created by her was heightened
when her father delivered his discourse,
1t was on the same lines as that delv-
cred by Miss Blackwell. only broader,
and bespoke the student OF economic
| questions and man of scholastic at
tainments. He maintained there were
| three great questions IN the political
world of today which were not men
toned or considered in the plat
forms of the two great politi-
cal parties. These questions were
woman'S suffrage. Neither of the
two former questions could be settled
| before women were allowed to vote. In
| Massachusetts women had been MEN,
| berS of school boards twelve years be-
| fore they were allowed to vote for the
| nominees of the board which claimed
them as part. In this state the women
can vote for members of the school
boards, but so far they have not been
allowed to be voted for. OF the two in
congruites Mr.. Blackwell rather pre-
| IerreQ the lattef.IO ne was sure woman
who was not qualified to vote was not
| qualified to be member of a school
board. Mr.. Blackwell advocated the
cause of wOman's suffrage and the plac-
ing of woman on the school board in
an able manner, and touched upon
| every phase of the question in master
| full manner. He, too, spoke of the
beauty of Minneapolis and the grandeur
of the Northwest rather to the dispar-
agement oil Boston and New England as
a whole. In one portion of his speech
he said:
''In Boston where we called ourselves
the Athens of America and prided our
selves upon reading Emerson, the Bos-
ton Herald, few weeks ago, printed
three columns of an account of brutal
prize fight which occurred in New Or
leans, and only column and half
obituary of John Greenleaf Whittier,
the wonderful writer of wonderful
poetry"
DIR. Holman was the last speaker. lie,
too. handled the question of woman's
suffrage in all able manner. He Is well
known as strong advocate of the Ques-
ton. and his stand last night was as
vigorous as ever. He considered it the
duty of every woman and man to see to
il that woman of the character and
attachments of Mrs. Crays is appointed
to serve on the school board.