The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-10-20
VICTORIA WILL RUN.
Mrs. Martin Will Strive to Sit il
the Presidential Chair.
She Makes Public Her Letter Of Accept-
ance-An Good Women Urged to
Persistently Demand the
Right of Suffrage.
WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT.

WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT.
NEW YORK, Oct. 17.-Mrs. Victori,
Claflin Woodruff Martin, the candidate
of the women suffragists for president
of the United States, arrived
here from her English home or
the steamship Etruria, which, ate,
night at quarantine, reached
her dock at 1850 Sunday morning. He,
husband, Mr.. John Biddulph Martin, a
London banker, who is a worlds fai,
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.
p!eted 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 nomina:
ton for president by the convention Of
woman suffragists. 1t is addressed to
''Anna M. Parker and others, national
nominating convention of women sui
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
name was presented to the public as the frs,
female candidate for president of the United
States
Mrs. Martin then quotes at length from he1
addresses delivered during that campaign, in
which she argued that the fourteenth and fiji
teenth amendments to the constitution permit
ted this right of suffrage to women, and she
earnestly commends all good women to persist
emily 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 newA conditions of progress
It is becoming just az 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, and
will add to overcome the conditions o.
crime, insanity and drunkenness referred to
in your resolution, new regulations
must be proposed for society. Nay
more, we must go even further, and
investigating the physical degeneracy which
breeds criminals We must surround mother
hood with the proper conditions of an enlight
ened age. 1t is to women, therefore, at the
base, that we look for the regeneration Of man
kind"