St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-17

NEW YORK, Oct. 16.-Mrs. Victoria
Claflin Woodruff Martin, the candidate
| of the Women Suffragists for president
| of the United States, arrived here from
| her English home on the steamship
Etruria, which, after night at ouaran-
tine. reached her dock at 7:3O this
! morning. Her husband, John Biddulph
Martin, London banker, who is a
worlds fair commissioner from Great
Britain, accompanied the American
presidential candidate. They were
driven to the residence of Mrs Mar
tins sister, Mrs. Dennis O'Hallern,
where she was seen by the reporters.
The lady said she felt in the best of
spirits. Her health was excellent, and
she was eager to step once more on the
platform or stump, after sixteen years
retirement. silence and domestic happi-
| ness, aud preach the gospel of humani-
tarianism to every creature. Tonight
she said Mr.. Martin and she would
leave for Chicago to attend the cere-
monies of the worlds fair grounds.
where her husband would represent t
the British commissioners. ImmedI-
turn to this city, when the arrange
ments will be completed for the
Campaign Speeches
which Mrs. Martin will deliver in Bos-
ton. New York, Philadelphia, Washing
ton, PittSburg, Cleveland, Chicago and
some other large cities.
Mrs. Martin gave out for publication
ner letter OF acceptance of the nomina-
tloD for the presidency by the conven-
ton OF the Woman Suffragists.
1t is addressed TO ''Anna NJ. Parker
and others. national nominating con-
vention of Woman Sutfragists." The
letter begins by stating that the nomi-
nation upon woman suffrage platform
ends itself to the writer, especially
from the fact that the issue is one
which was originally raised and
advocated by her and others as
long ago as 1870. before congress, and
was afterwards maintained as the prin-
clpal plank in the platform of the Wom-
an suffrage campaign of 1872, "when nv
name was presented to the public as the
first female candidate for president of
the United States"
Mrs. Martin then quotes at length
from her addresses delivered during
that campaign, in which she argued
amendments to the constitution permit
ted this right of suffrage to women, and
she earnestly commends all good women
to perSistentiy
Demand This Right.
The plank in the platform adopted at
the convention of 1892, which declares
that ''by the united efforts of the
women voters of this nation we will
drive anarchy, crime, insanity and
drunkenness from our midst by our
humanitarian efforts backed by the
ballot" is next considered. and Mrs.
Martin proceeds to discuss at some
length the method by which the evils
affecting society can be corrected. She
states that $50 environed has the
social structure become with a net
work of technical distractions that
ciety excepting through almost an en-
tire revision of the basic laws of gov
ernment. Even the constitution of the !
United States itself, one of the most |
modern governmental charters in the !
world, is, you may say, relic of old |
Institutions.
"Old constitutions are incompetent to |
deal with the new conditions. The ad- |
vance in science has shown personal !
conditions of physical unfitness of hu- |
manity itself to grapple with the va
riOuS new conditions of progress. 1t is |
becoming just as necessary now to con- |
slider the important subject of
Breeding Intelligence
and physical culture in the human ra ce
70 aecnmnlish such results, and | will