New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-25
ASKING FOR THE BALLOT.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY ADDRESSES THE SUI
FRAGE COMMITTEE.
SHE ARGUES FROM THE EXAMPLE OF WESTERN
STATES IN ENFRANcHIsING woMEN-HER
POINTED REFERENCE TO THE MUIR
PHY-FLOWER INCIDENT.

STATES IN ENFRANCHIsING woMEN-HER
POINTED REFERENCE TO THE MUIR
PHY-FLowER INCIDENT
lFRoM THE REGuLAE CORRESPONDENT OF lHE rnBUSy.l
Albany May A-rhe Suffrage Committee Of
the constitutional Convention listened this after
noon to addresses by Susan b. Anthony and Jean
BROOKS Greeneaf. president OF the Womans Suf>
frage Society. Mrs. Greenleaf made short speech
introducing Miss Anthony. who said in part:
For forty-fye years or more a handful of women
nave been telling why women should have voice In
the Government. They ask 1t, first because they
are human beings; second because they are citl-
Zehs' Ihey should be protected In a right 10 Vcte
We are not asking a new thing; merely "ish
you to extend me suffrage. In England for over
9uarlSr OF a century women have gone TO me
polls The only difference Is a property qualihca'
Aealaha mas given suffrage TO women ana men
without any property qualification. Kansas has
lions IN twenty,three States women vote on
school questions. The first result In Wyoming was
official positions The same is of Kansas, largely
In Minnesota. when they first obtained the school
affair but in Rochester. of that state. the women
resisted the cutting down the pay of the women
why women OF the Women Suffrage party have
been working 50 hard in hard, Industrial WORLD
Kansas they have 2S5 cities in which women have
voted
NOTHING But GOOD FROM WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Any one but a low-down, vicious man would say
that nothing but good has come Of the women
voting. So successful has been the experiment that
the Legislature has just passed an amendment to
the Constitution giving women the right of suffrage
Then we have those partia! experiments IN
Wyoming. The enemy say that Wyoming
has only a small population. But men are
men, and women women everywhere. The
Territorial Governors have al come TO approve Of
woman suffrage although they sometimes went to
Wyoming opposed to 1t. They nave found that
for men and good for the State The Legislature
of Colorado last year submitted proposition 10
strike the word mae from the Constitution. The
Woman suffrage party Gid very lite before the
IS the first State where a majority OF the voters
have given vote 70 distranch.sed c.ass. EXien-
sions OF Suffrage before have been made by par.la
ments 1t Is 50 much to the credit OF the men OF
What about a property qualification" II you had
given II 10 US In 1921, when you removed X from
men. would have had ballot by this time.
give woman suffrage l hope you Will consider
ton of the men and women OF New-York that you
viii be warranted in giving us this right Every
material interest is now represented at the polls,
except those OF the women Three-iourths or me
charitable societies supported By women. Take
gambling houses ;hree-fourths OF those interests
are represented by men. When you put in one
out from the other scale the mora. the !nelectu1i
the educational ballot, you VII see the balance KICK
tbs beam.
GOVERNOR FLOWER AND SENATOR MURPHY
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vote. Let me give you practical Illustration OF
what women could 90. Governor Flower recently
vetoed biz giving non-partisan election inspectors
to Troy. The clergymen CT Troy asked him 20 sign
II, but Senator Edward Murphy told him not -.
and 50 he didn't. Why did Governor Flower DO
what Senator Murphy tO,d him 70 do; Because he
knew that there were thousands Of votes behind
Senator Murphy ami that there were none behind
the clergyms IN. Bu, II the women had been voting
there would have been thousands Of votes behind me
clergymen. and Governor Flower would have rec0g-
nized the fact You need the votes OF women. You
viii have better schools II women vote better hosp!-
tails
universal complaint % the degradation and corfup-
! ton OF politics. Z should think you would be as
willing to have the Church enfranchisei az the .h
| looms. II is said would double the immoral
vote the ignorant vote But II you VIII examine
the statistics you will discover that there Is less
! r.iteracy among women than among mon IN THIS
State Women 20 TO school longer than men. There
fore the ignorant vote Will not be doubled In th'
Kansas Penitentiary they have loo men and TWEEN
| tv-nlne women: and you think the ballot WI! Dc
| degraded what troubles you most to-day! J OF
| Republicans go down 20 Harlem River with SION
m aior.ty and YOU defeated by the uoatnS VOC
| In New-York City. When women have the vote tna'
floating vote viii be far less The floating voter ha
| no wife. / have seen the COxey army. Ihey arr
| not mon who pay taxes. who have wives. lh'rc
| fore when you enfranchise women you 10 no
double the Coxey vote. but you do double the NONE
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