St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-07
She Will Be Her Own Nomi-
nee and Run on Her
Own Platform.
Therefore There Can Be No
Syracuse Protest to In
tepfepe With Her.
Stippicultupe Now and For
ever Will Be Her Chief
Campaign Slogan.


toria WoodhulI-Martin herself, and is
serious. AT any rate it is most seriously
meant by her, and is a conclusion
reached by her after much study of
sociology and intense labor of thought
over the problem of how to improve, il
not idealize, human life.
Victoria believes that there is some
thing radically wrong with our mar
riage system. She thinks that most
that physiologically they are misfits
that their intellectual natures do not
harmoniZe, and that therefore most chill
dren get born wrong. and hence grow
ub to become curses, instead of bless
ings, to the world. From this, as first
cause, arise, according to Victoria'S
idea, the woes of civilization. She says
that we give more attention to the
breeding of horses than to the breeding
of boys and girls. and claims that it
ought to be just the other way. LIN
other words, Mrs. Woodruff Martin be-
lieves it wrong to let certain men mar
ry certain women, because there is ap-
parent evidence that these certain men
are not fit to become the fathers of these
certain women's children.
She stands therefore upon the doc
trine of stirpicuture. Her plan is to
preach its theories, to convert the IN
telligent to belief in them and finally
to persuade young men and young
women to marry only in accord with its
principles. By these means Mrs. w Ood-
huli-Martin hopes TO bring upon the
face of this at present miserable earth a
generation of children who will grow
up to be almost perfect physical and in
tellectual specimens. And that splen-
did generation will see to it that the
generations to follow will all be better
than we are, better even than Adam
and Eve were before the serpent be-
came favored caller in Paradise.
Mrs. Woodhull-Martip proclaimed her
candidacy to a New York World re-
porter. AS matter of news it is timely,
because Mr.. Blaine. Mr.. Harrison and
Mr.. Cleveland and Mr.. Hill and the rest
of the White house possibilities may be
glad to know about it. and perhaps
some of 'em will write plain and dis
tinct letter of declinatiOn.
There isn't any midwinter convention
or Syracuse protest business to inter-
fere with Mrs. Notwithstanding can
didacy. She will depend, however.
upon a literary bureau. In the house
piles of documents to be used in her
propaganda. Altogether there are
100000 pamphlets ready now for cir
culation throughout the United States.
The literature Will create interest in
the educational platform upon which
she is TO stand. A convention is to be
called to consider the reconstruction of
the constitution of the United States on
a humanitarian basis. The convention
will be held in the early fall at Chicago,
and Mrs. Martin will then announce
herself as a candidate.
In her talk with World reporter yes
terday Mrs. Martin said her plans had
been definitely begun by the organizing
of Victoria leagues. Fifty are already
in working order. The leagues are So
cieties of women. They may be started
by any woman. Their object is the dis
cussion of such subjects as will lead to
the scientific propagation of the human
race. Causes will be investigated and
each subject will be viewed from a
scientific view point. The leagues are
to diffuse Mrs. Martins ideas on human
itaranism all over this broad land and
Staten island. She is confident that a
party will arise which will be cOnSOli
dation of the Labor, Democratic, Re-
publican and Woman Suffrage parties.
She is also confident that this new party
will demand a humanitarian form of
government. Mrs. Martin will be their
representative.
Early in June will be issued the first
copy of paper called the Humanitarian.
Mrs. Martin is now busy at it. During
the fall she will deliver series OF lee
lures. The money coming from the sale
of the tickets is to be used for the eStab-
licl,r nf intn ret
lecture will be delivered by Mrs. Martin
in Chicago. Her subject will be ''The
Reconstruction of the Constitution of
the United States on a Humanitarian
Basis" She will refer to George Wash
ington and quote from his inaugural
address, April 80. 1889, where he says:
"rhe preservation of the sacred fire of
liberty and the destiny of the republican
model of government are justly consid-
cred as deeply, perhaps, as finally,
staked on the experiment intrusted to
the hands of the American people"
Mrs. Martin says: Washington,
with his clear Judgment, foresaw that
the constitution must be at best only an
experiment. This constitution served
the purpose of swaddling clothes for
the infant child, but it is incompetent
to meet the demands of the full grown
man and woman of the present. Wider
views of the scope of political economy
have created a demand for humani-
tartan form of govern ment, and this de-
mand will not be satisfied with laws
thrust upon q struggling people by
ignorant demagogueS and political
trickSterS."
Mrs. Martin talked at length uponSthe
values of humanitarian form of gov
ernment. She said ii was the true
panacea for all or nearly all the ills that
afflict humanity. Under this form of
government every measure must be de-
cided by popular vote of the people, the
measure standing entirely upon its
merit. 1t will rise above all the political
factions of the present, and will pro-
mote the physical as we'll as the
psychical weli-being of its subjects.
Il would inaugurate a perfect system
of organization in every district. parish
and borough if l we're president" says
Mrs. Martin. Il would employ educated
men and women whose duty it would
be to find out the physical and mental
conditions of every man, woman and
child in each district and report the
same to officials at headquarters. In
this way at moments notice the phys
ical, mental and moral condition of an
entire community might be known.
There should be official gaZetteS pub
lished regularly with reports from head
quarters. The government should en-
ploy trained, scientific teachers in all
branches of education who would see
that none remained ignorant on any
subject pertaining to their mental,
moral or physical we'll being. Trained
nurses should teach every woman her
duty TO herself and her unborn child.
and on the birth of each child its phys
ical condition should be reported to the
official gazette"
These and many more things did
Mrs. Martin say about her presidential
platform. Then she touched upon its
most important plank, that of stirpi-
culture. II believe" she said, "that
proper marriages are the basis of all
reforms. 1t is the ignorant who are at
the mercy Of the intelligent. 1t is in
every sense a crime for woman to
marry in ignorance of the marital rela-
tions. A humanitarian government