The morning call., 1894-09-14

much richer hue as she said that she
knew of no proceedings that had been in
stituted.
'The woman's suffrage question in Call
fornia is settled and the way they are act
ing now is as if a man had obtained judg
ment against a debtor aud instead of ex-
ecutiug the judgment. pockeied it and
standing on the street, outside bis debtors
house. cried out to the passers-by, L can
put in an execution If the women suf-
frsgists, instead of assembling and whoop-
ing up suffrage would go and ask for it
they would get it,"
II do my work and do not ask 10 be boil
stored uD by any society,"" was Mrs. Cor
don's emphatic declaration on the subject.
Long before these kindergartners were
heard of | was working in the field. AS
for the last Republican convention at Sac
rament', it's all nonsense to talk of their
sending me. l said l was going, and they
asked me to represent them. | was the
only woman there. and waited hours be-
fore could get hearing. They did not
even ask me to 90 to the Democr attic con-
vention. but was there, working away in
the cause.
Il wrote quite a conciliatory letter to
Mrs. Blinn yesterday aud told her she was
taking the advice of men opposed to
women's suffrage and was surrounded by
bad advisers. Poor soul! she is just swept
along by the current of the crowd of tur-
bnlent women in her party. 1t is just the
same with mems political parties-they
have to throw over so much driftwood that
floats along and catches on to anything.
If Mrs. Blinn gets rid of her advisers l
think things will be smOothsd out again.
AS for that meeting in July. l was be-
tween two factions: We did put the mo-
ton to adjourn over sixty times in various
forms, but they overruled u.s."
The coDciliatory letter, which was duly
received by Mrs. Binn, was informs ally
discussed by that lady, assisted by Mrs.
Emily Pitt Stevens and Mrs. Harland.
The idea of calling such women as Mrs.
General Bidwell, Helen Moore, Murray
Bailey, Mrs. Gregory, yourselves and all
others, bad advisers" exclaimed Mrs.
Blinn. II could not find a better set of
clever business women in any State in the
Union"
THE president is able to support her
own authority, but when she does fail
back for advice she has a good Cabinet"
said Mrs. Harand smiling. SIT seems TO
is something like the will you walk into
my parlor, said the spider to the fiy,'"
ADDED Mrs. Stevens, and then all three
ladies renewed their protestatons of ad-
miratiOn for the Cabinet.
Mrs. Clara FOliZ was our LAWYER, that
was how she came to take such a promi-
nent part in Tuesdays proceedings" said
Mrs. Stevens. I'VE went there with one
simple mission-to prevent Mrs. Gordon's
usurping the position of Mrs. Blinn. Hav-
ing fulfilled our mission we did not stay to
listen 10 the haranguing. or course we in-
tend to refuse to meet Mrs. Gordon'S de le-
gates appointed at that meeting, simply
because we cannot legally recognize her
right TO appoint them."
And thus. in spite OF Mrs. Gordon's con-
eilatory letter, there are still two women,
each claiming TO be the on and only State
Suffrage Association, and in addition to
this there is now the complication that,
unless modern Paris arises to award the
golden apple, there are at least TWO vet
eran and several recent champions of
woman's cause who claim the glory of the
contest