The morning call., 1892-10-17
Victoria Heedhull BiddaIpll Martin
Writes a Letter Of Acceptance.
ONCE MORE ANXIOUS FOR EOTORIETY.
She viii Speak in the Big Eastern Cities, and She
Lays Down the Lines UpOn Which
She Will Fight.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.

New YORK, Oct. 16-Mrs. Victoria Claf-
lin Woodruff Martin, candidate Of the
Woman Suffragisis for President of the
United States, arrived this morning on the
Etruria from her English home. Her hus-
band. John Biddnlph Martin, London
banker and Worlds Fair Commissioner
from Great Britain, accompanied the Presi-
Dental candidate. They were driven to the
residence of Mrs. Martins sister, Mrs. Den
mis- 0'Hallern.
Being interviewed. Mrs. Martin said that
she was eager to step once more on the
platform. after sixteen years retirement.
and preach the gospel of humanitarianism
to every character. Tonight she aud Mr..
Martin left for Chicago to attend the dedi-
cation ceremonies. Immediately after W hch
arrangements will be completed for the
campaign speeches which Mrs. Martin will
deliver in Boston, New York, Philadelphia.
Chicago and other large cities.
Mrs. Martin to-day gave out for pubica-
tion letter accepting the Presidential
nomination. which is addressed to Anna n.
Parker and others
The letter begins by stating that nomi-
nation upon woman suffrage platform
cOmmends itself to the writer, especially as
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 argued that the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments to the constitution
permitted the right of suffrage to women,
and she earnestly commends all good women
to persistently demand their right.
She next proceeds 10 discuss at some
length the methods by which the evils at
present sfflieting society can be corrected.
For these evils she sees no salvation except
through the almost entire revision of the
basic laws OF the Government. She says:
Even the constitution of the United
States. itself one Of the most modern gov-
ornamental charters of the world, is, you
NAV say, relic of old institutions"
Further on she says: 1T is becoming
just as necessary 10 consider the important
subject of breeding intelligence and physi-
cal culture in the human race as ii is in the
inferior animals. In order to accomplish
such results new regulations must be pro-
posed for society. We must surround moth
erhood with the proper conditions of this
enlightened age. Ii is 20 women, therefore,
that we must look for the regeneration of
mankind.
Injury to women through taxation with
out representation Is only The beginning of
n series of wrongs and prosecutions TO which
the sex Is subjected. / am not an advocate
Of w0man's rights in the sense of unsexing
woman. Woman's vote is only a great
weapon of reform. 1t would settle the
liquor question, and with woman in poll
ties and the saloons out of politics what
may we not hope for.
But will not dilate further. simply pre-
senting the list of some of the proposed re-
forms under consideration in the humanita-
rian platform-revenu and tariff reform,
tribunals of health, free courts of justice
for the poor. BUREAUS of anthropology con-
nected with every police station, IaboratO-
ries for the analysis of impure foods and
liquids. woman suffrage, the scientific reor-
ganizaton Of the criminal code. improved
dwellings for the poor, labor tribunals for
arbitration, and an aristoeracy or blood"