Arizona republican., 1892-09-25
WOMAN'S WORLD.
CLAIMS MADE BY THE WOMAN's
SUFFRAGE PARTY OF NEW YORK.

"A Baltimore Beauty-A Brave woman's
Endurance-Corsets and Suspenders.
Privacy in Bathing-Summer Clothing
for Children.
The Woman's Suffrage party, which
consists of members Of the New York
State association and many others who
do not wish to take n public stand, de-
votes itself neither to agitation nor to
educational work, but to making an end
at once of woman's disfranchisement.
Hence we hold few public meetings and
make few publications; we set ourselves
to carrying elections and controlling
the legislature. We have repeatedly de-
feated candidates for the senate and as
sembly, and at least once have prevented
the reelection of a supreme court Judge;
in some cases we have prevented men
from being even nominated, by notify
ing the managers of their party that, if
nominated, we would do our utmost to
beat them.
We have defeated two hostile candi-
dates for attorney general, and have
elected friends in their stead; we have
done the same with judge of the court
of appeals. We have helped to defeat
several hostile candidates for governor
and to elect friends. In fact, whenever
a friend has been nominated, either by
Republicans or Democrats, for any Office
affecting our question in any part of the
state, he has been promptly appraised,
sometimes to his establishment, and al
ways to his qualification, that we would
do our best to elect him.
Whenever a foe was nominated by
either party, we have-if practicable
and worth the labor-exerted ourselves
to elect his opponent, and have thus
made a valuable friend of the latter.
We have never risked injuring our
friends by publicly advocating their
election, which course might drive preju-
diced men of their own party to vote
against them. We have always worked
for them as quietly as possible. Once
the Democratic state committee, at our
request. printed 10000 extra posters,
which we distributed through the states,
the result being the election Of a candi-
date friendly to suffrage. At another
time the Republican state committee
printed thousands of confidential letters,
which we sent out in favor of certain Of
their candidates, who were elected.
When Attorney General Leslie w. Rus
sell was running for reelection, we sent
out 100000 documents against him, in
GLIDING an address to over 5000 law
nd in, of o.
him.
We have never wasted time, work or
money in running candidates of our own,
nor on any nominees who could not be
elected, but we have always taken our
candidates from the Republican or Dem
ocratic tickets. Thus we have obliged
the leaders Of both parties to respect us,
to feel that they must try to meet our
views and that we are efficient aids and
dangerous enemies; that it is perilous to
put our opponents on their tickets and
advisable to nominate our friends. We
have made the liberation of New York
women our sole political issue, and have
not asked what a candidates views were
in any other respect if he was willing to
do justice to million and half of dis
franchised citizens.
Thus we have made even unscrupu-
lous politicians feel that it is to their in-
terest to favor the right. Our organi-
zation is simple, but very effective. One
earnest, quiet, skillful worker in each
voting district of our state can Otter
turn the result. These are parts OF
practical methods of work which after
twelve years effort wrought the splen-
did majority in the New York assembly
last April. Hamilton Wilcox in Bos-
ton Woman's Journal.