Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-10-20
VICTORIA WILL RUN.
Mrs. Martin VIII Strive to Sit In
the Presidential Chair.
She Makes Public Her Letter of Accept
anee-An Good Women Urged to
Persistently Demand the
Right OF Suffrage.
WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT.

NEW YORK, Oct. 17.-Mrs. Victoria
Clafin 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
a night at quarantine, reached
her dock at 1850 Sunday morning. Her
husband, Mr.. John Biddulph Martin, a
London banker, who is a worlds fair
commissioner from Great Britain,
accompanied the American presi-
dental candidate. They will at
tend the dedicatory ceremonies
at Chicago. Immediately after the
ceremonies they will return to this city,
where the arrangements will be COM
pleted for the campaign speeches
which Mrs. Martin will deliver in
Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
Washington, Pittsburgh, Cleveland,
Chicago and some other large cities.
Mrs. Martin gave out for publication
her letter of acceptance of the romina-
ton for president by the convention of
woman suffragists. 1t is addressed to
"Anna NJ. Parker and others, natioua
fragists. " A synopsis is as follows:
The letter begins by stating that the nomina.
ton upon woman's suffrage platform COM
mends 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 afterward maintained
as the principal plank in the platform of the
woman's suffrage campaign of 1872, when my
moi prac mt tn he r1Vi no frcf
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 that the fourteenth and If
teenth amendments to the constitution permit
ted this right of suffrage 10 women and she
earnestly commends all good women 10 persist
entity demand this right. The plank in the plat
form adopted at the convention OF 1892 which
declares that by the united efforts of the
women voters of this nation we will drive an
archy crime, insanity and drunkenness from
our midst by our humanitarian efforts, backed
by the ballot" is next considered and Mrs.
Martin says:
''Old constitutions are incompetent to deal
with the new conditions. The advance in
science has shown personal conditions of physi-
cal unfitness of humanity itself to grapple
with the various new conditions of progress.
1t is becoming just as necessary now
to consider the important subject of
breeding intelligence and physical culture in
the human race as it is in the inferior animals.
In order to accomplish such results, ana I
will add to overcome the conditions of
crime, insanity and drunkenness referred to
in your resolution, new regulations
must be proposed for society. Nay
more, must go even further, and,
investigating the physical degeneracy which
breeds criminals, we must surround mother
hood with the proper conditions of enlight-
ened age. 1t is TO women therefore, at the
base, that we look for the regeneration of man
kind.
New YORK, Oct. lS.-The state COM
mittee of the woman's suffrage party
has issued a statement denying that
Victoria Woodruff Martin is that par
tvs candidate for president of the
United States. The committee says
that the Woman's Journal, the woman
suffragists organ, has repudiated Mrs
Martin as candidate.