The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-07-07
FOR HOME PROTECTION.

All the Good Women for Grover cleve-
land--A New Movement ih Our Ameri-
can Politics.
NEW YORK, June 30.-The formation Of
a Woman's club here to boom Cleveland
adds new and unique feature to the
campaign. The new club has elected
Mary Frost Ormsby president, and Miss
Sarah Il. Fuller OF the Sorosis Society,
secretary. The object OF this club is To
voice woman's interests in campaiRns OF
principle; to defend the homes OF the land
against unjust taxation and to secure the
election of the Democratic ticket 1ne
President has sent the following letter TO
Mrs Grover Cleveland at BUzz 'rd's Bay:
MRS. GROVER LEvELAND: Dear
Madam-Ii gives us great pleasure, as
repre- en- tatives Of that great body of
wcmrn of Dsmocratic sympathies' 70 IN
form you that a Frances Cleveland ln'
fiuence Club has just been formed by the
mothers. wives, sisters and daughters OF
the New York Democrats. We have taken
the liberty of using your name for the hrst
Of the many Influence clubs which we
trust will spring up throughou the country
and which after November 8 will confirm
the judgment OF that Republican leader
reg lrding 1890 that "the women did it,"
We feel that this campaign Is to lift the
burden OF taxation from the homes OF the
land, and we as home defenders desire
part in the struggle.
Yours Respectfully,
MARY FROST ORMsBY.
Mrs. Ormsby is the well known member
of Sorosis, who went to the International
Peace Congress at Rome last winter as
the head of the American delegation, and
has been appointed delegate TO the
Peace Congress which will meet at Berne,
Switzerland, this summer. She made
stirring speech to the women among
Oth her thiDUa alp said.
when | was in Rome l was commits
stoned by Mrs. Potter Palmer to enlist the
sympathy of Italian women 10 the World's
Fair, and going among them found now
their lives were narrowed, their aspira.
tons frosted and their homes burdened
by the oppression OF their odious tariffs.
l started for home with the song OF Amer.
ican freedom on my lips and In my heart,
only to find on arriving at our ports that
the Republican party had put bitterer
barrier at our doors than could be found
anywhere in Italy.
Nothing gave me more modification at
Rome than to try TO explain the Mckinley
bill. How could |, as peace representa-
tive, justify such an anti-traternal
anti-brotherhood, warlike attitude as that
assumed by our country Ia adopting the
Mckinley princirleP -,
"But l sed to know you as Republi-
can" broke in Mrs. E. j. Cadwallader.
~ was a Republican once" Mrs. Orms.
by said sharply, "but my eyes were opened
and when the Mckinley bill was passed
saw the full iniquity Of the tariff System.
Il is the duty Of every woman to make as
light as possible the work OF those who
labor for the home. How can they do 1t
better than by cutting down the expenses
of the household? But let us not cut down
the comforts, let us cut down the prices.
No man knows like woman, the burdens
OF the home.n
II went out shopping one day after the
country had been McKinleyiz I'd and found
prices almost doubled in some instances.
That fall induced five of my Republican
friends to vote the Democratic ticket for
the first time in their lives, and say that
every Democratic woman in the land can
do the same. My sisters, we have no vote,
but thank God we have influence.