St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-09
Minnesota Women to Ask the
Legislature to Grant Them
Full Suffrage.
They Only Want Such Women
to Vote as Can Read the
Constitution.
Resolutions of Respect Re-
e garding Whittier and
.. Curtis.
Kansas Republicans Given a
Hard Whaek in the
" Resolutions.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
HASTINGS, Mimi, Sept. s. The State
Woman's Suffrage association closed its
twelfth annual session here today. Last
night Rev. David Morgan, of the Bethel.
st. Paul, delivered an address. xviii
Women Vote and What Good Will 1t
Do?" Mrs. Cheta f. Lutz delivered
brilliant address upon What more
can woman want. To-day the report
Of the treasurer, w. B. Read, was read.
showing balance left in the treasury
of Sl4.s7. Abigail Scott Duniway Lutz,
the eight-months daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. &. W. Lutz, OF Morton, named
after the champion of woman's rights
on the Pacific coast, was introduced
by the president. Mrs. Julia b. Nelson.
OF Red Wing, as the daughter of the
two suffragists, the father supposed to
be as good Sutfraglst as the mother,
and was made an honorary member.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year:
The Officers.
President-Mrs. Julia B. Nelson, Red
Wing
Vice President-Mrs. Jessie &. CawleY,
Pipestoue.
Corresponding Secretary-Miss Anna D.
Jones. Red Wing.
Recording Secretary-Mrs EXine G. Bon
WELL Blue Earth City.
Treasurer-W. B. Reed, Hastings.
Executive Committee - Mrs. Sarah B.
Stevens. Duluth; G. B. Kingsley. Blue Earth
Charlotte Bolles, Red Wing; Mrs. A. B. Tur-
ley, Minneapolis; Mrs. r. S. Smith, Minneap-
oils; G. W. Lutz Morton.
The time and place of next years
meeting were left to the executive COM
mittee.
The Resolutions.
The following resolutions were
adopted:
That the assumption of man to con-
tlnue to prescribe wOman'S place in
church and state is indefenSible on any
principle of right or Justice, and until
man can give some authority for such
dictatorship we shall continue our pro-
test.
That we recognize the advance in
public sentiment among the best edu-
Gated men and women in favor of wom-
ans franchisement;. and we view it as
precursor of final success that our
cause has advanced from being sub
Ject OF ridicule to a question of argu-
ment.
That we regard the action of the Kan
ooo Nv III QllSNtlillS llIS dD-
pealS OF women for a recognition of
their rights by simply proposing to sub
init an amendment of the constitution
to the votes of all men as unworthy of
their manhood.
Kansas Given a Whack.
Sc That by this act they are either COM
PEELED to admit that it was the Repub-
HcanS who voted down the same PROPOSE
ton in Kansas in 1867, and later In
Michigan. Colorado, Nebraska, Oregon,
and South Dakota, instead of ''the
Democratic rabble," as they have
claimed; or else that they had no ex-
pectatiOn or desire TO secure woman
suffrage, since they have now no more
control over Democratic votes than
they ever had.
That had they sincerely wished 10 en-
franchise women they would, in the
light of these many failures at amend
ing the constitution have said, since
state constitutions do not restrain legis-
lators from extending suffrage to
women, we will present bill of this
kind to our next legislature, and do our
utmost to secure its passage in both
houses
New DIRK e remembered.
That we gratefully remember the &C
ton Of the New York assembly in pas
Sing bill for the REIMBURSEMENT of
women, in April last, by vote of 60 in
favor to 81 against, and we hope and
pray that the same sense of Justice may
abide in the hearts of New York legis-
lators until another year may have
given them opportunity to pass such a
bill in both houses.
Whereas, Mhen have during twenty
years or more conferred school suffrage
q fun N..&,
legislative enactment, and thereby es-
tablished the principle, beyond ques-
ton. that legislatures are free to ex-
tend suffrage to women, as NAV seem
to them best, without any previous
amendment of the state constitution,
therefore
Full Suffrage.
Resolved, That we, as an association.
will appeal to our state legislature for
bill comforting full suffrage upon
women.
As it is becoming every year more
and more apparent that the interests of
the state and of humanity are made to
suffer by the votes of the ignorant
among men, be it
Resolved, That we ask our legislature
to enfranchise only such women,
whether native born or naturalized, as
can read any part of the constitution of
the United States or of this state.
That we admire the courage of the
national Prohibition party in declaring
plainly for. women'S suffrage; we be-
lieve that a government of the people
and by the people will not perish from
the earth, but that party regardless of
the rights of half the people will and
ought to pass away.
Resolved, That we as an association
feel most deeply the loss that our cause
has sustained in the recent passing away
of that gifted poet and our dear and
honored sympathizer and co-worker,
John Greenleaf Whittier. Also in the
passing to other spheres of our old. time
friend and helper, George w. Curtis.