The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-10-17
THE LIST IS NOW FULL.
Mrs. Victoria Clafiin Woodruff Mar
tin Will Be a Candidate for
President
She Arrives From Her English
Home to Conduct Her
Campaign.
Tho Letter She Writes A ccenting the Mons
inatton mt the Hands of the Woman
Snfrraaista.

NEW YORK., Oct. 16.-Mrs. Victoria Clafin
Woodruff Martin, candidate of the woman
suffragists for president of the United
States, arrived this morning on the steamer
Etrnria from her English home. Her hus-
band, John Bidduiph Martin, the London
banker snd Worlds far commissioners
from Gren. Britain, accompanied the pres
idential candidate. They were driven to
the residence Of Mrs. Martins sister, Mrs.
Dennis UHalleran. Being interviewed,
Mrs. Martin said she WAS eager to step
once more upon the platform after sixteen
years retirement. and preach the gospel of
humanitarianism to every character. To-
night she and MIR. Martin left
for Chicago to attend the Worlds
fair dedication ceremonies. Immediately
After these are over arrangements will be-
completed for campaign speeches. which
Mrs Martin will deliver III Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, Chicago and other
large cities.
Mrs. Martin, before leaving, gave out for
publication her letter accepting the nom
nation. 1t is addressed to Anna M. Parker
and Others. The letter begins by stating
that the nomination upon women sufY age
platform commends itself to the writer,
especially as the issue is one which was
originally raised and advocated by her as
long ago as 1870. Mrs. Martin then quotes
at length from her addresses delivered
during that campaign, in which she argues
that the fourteenth and fifteenth amend-
ments to the constitution permitted the
right Of suffrage to women, and she earn
estly commends all good women to persist
emily demand their rights. She next pro-
ceeds to discuss at some length the method
by which the evils affecting society can be
corrected. She sees no salvation exceps
through an almost entire revision Of the
basic laws of government. She says:
Even the constitution of the United
States itself, one of the most modern gov-
ernmental characters of the void
is. you may say, a relic
of old Institutions" Further on
she SAYS: cit ia becoming Just as necss-
sary to consider the important subject of
breeding intelligence and physical culture
in the human race as it is in inferior ami
mails. In order to accomplish such results
new regulations must be proposed for soci-
ETY.. We must surround motherhood with
the proper conditions OF an enlightened
age. 1t is to women. therefore, that Wa
look for the regeneration of mankind.
The injury to wonen. through taxation
without representation. is only the begin
ming of a series of wrongs and prosecutions
TO which the sex ID subjected. l am not
an advocate of woman's rights in the sense
of unsexing woman. Woman's vote is tho
only great weapon OF reform. 1t
would settle the liquor question and with
woman in politics snd saloons out of poll
tics what may we not nope for. But / will
not dilate further; simply presenting a list
of some of the proposed reforms
under consideration in the humanitarian
platform: reuenue and tariff reform; tri-
bunals of health; free courts of justice for
the poor; bureaus of anthropologv con-
nectea with every police station; labarato-
ries for the analysis of impure food and
liquids; woman suffrage; a scientific re-
organization of the criminal code; improved
dwellings, for the poor: labof tribunals for
arbitration; the aristooraoy of blood"