Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-15
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS.


In the south. which is supposed to be the
home Of clinging. tender. trustful fragile,
shrinking petticoated humanity, il is ram
pant The two leading delegates from
Dixie to the National American Woman's
Suffrage Association call Kentucky home
They are Miss Laura Clay, daughter of
the celebrated Col. Cassius NJ. Clay and
Mrs. Josephine Henry. who recently ran
for clerk of the supreme court of her COM
monwealth, and received 5000 votes They
were all cast by men," she said at the
Riggs House last night, which proves
that We have at least 5000 males in Ken
lucky who are willing to give us our
rights
Miss Clay is tall and broad and strong.
with an open faca and a frank smile. Mrs.
Henry is small and slender, and wears
glasses. They talk exceedingly well. with
the fiuency that indicates the practicea
speaker Miss Clay is president of the
Kentucky association.
There are woman suffrage associntiors
In twelve OF the southern states" she
said. Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina.
Florida, Georgia. Alabama, Louisiana,
Texas Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky
and Missouri. But three are without them.
These are North Carolina, West Virginia
state organization will be soon effected in
Mississippi. Much interest is felt there,
and two-thirds Of the recent constitutional
convention voted to give woman the suf-
frage. While our numbers not large.
we compare favorably in that respect with
many states of the north which contain
much older associations. We are not so
lar along as the west, but we are moving.
Southern women look upon extension OF suf-
frage as inevitable. 1t is bound to come.
IT but for the inestimable benefit il would
confer upon our section. 1t will be readily
seen that by giving women the right to
vote with an educational qualification the
racial question would be set at rest for
ever. for the reason that nearly all south
ern white women possess some schooling,
while very few negro. women have any.
BY Al educational qualification, / mean
ability to read and write the English Ian
guage We have no wish to exclude col
only that they be able to vote intelligently.
Such law would be really an incentive
TO them to improve themselves. Woman
suffrage in the south would preclude for
all time the CHARGE Of republican control
of any southern state. For this reason, IL
for no other. We believe that the democratic
party will aid u.s.
III the men OF the south think that south
ern women do not wish the ballot" said
Mrs. Henry "they were never more mis-
taken in their lives. Why, In three Of the
states women have individually petitioned
the legislatures for suffrage. They ought
to know what they want The best women
Of our section seek the right to go to the
polls. i ran for supreme court. clerk upon
the prohibition ticket, and IN Kentucky,
too. But for that fact would have been
given $4,000 votes"
What we have done In the SOUTH" said
Miss Clay, has been accomplished almost
entirely without assistance from the norta.
Kentucky has not had any at all We
are marching on .'-'- ri
Ex-united States Senator Paddock OF
Nebraska was in a musing mood at the
Normandie. THE trains from this town TO
New York" he said. go like a bullet. 1t
takes two men to watch them-one to say
oh an he m
'Yonder she goes.' There is a contrast be-
tween the new time and the old. 1 was in
Washington in 1861. 1 was here, as many
were here last year, to assist IN guiding a
new administration along the narrow path
of Righteousness. The unpleasantness broke
out. Railways to the north Of us were torn
up and telegraph wires were cut. The
metropolis was without news Of the capital
and grew faint. 1 was compelled to go 10
New York and in company with three others
chartered a carriage. Before we left Fred
Seward son OF the Secretary OF State, ASK
ed me to carry some dispatches 10 rhe
Tribune / think the correspondent at that
time was Smalley. I stuffed them into my
socks. We drove to Baltimore, reaching
there at 10 O'Clock Of the night. We were
gathered in by Marshal Kane and pumped
Also We were thoroughly searched. They
did not find the dispatches. We hired fresh
horses and drove all night and part Of the
next day to Have de Grace There We
found a train that had a fender on the rear
to keep the cows from climbing on and
biting the passengers. 1t was a sort Of lost
sheep OF a railroad that was subsequently
made into mutton by the b. and o. The
entire trip consumed more than thirty -six |
hours. The time now IL something cnde- |
five. When l got to New York went to
the Tribune building and pulled or my foot
wear. They were glad to see me and the
copy was legible. Let me see, That was
thirty-three years ago, but then, as now
there were few office seekers bobbing
around"
or course the anarchistic outrages have
caused tremendous excitement in France"
said Mr.. Pierre NJ Biossat Of Bordeaux,
VINO occupied a chair in the Arlington
lobby, but IT is more scare than anything
else. Crimes akin to bomb-throwinR ere
no new things. We have had ATTEMPTED
wholesale slaughters by explosives since the
invention OF gmpowder. Guy Fawkes was
an illustrious example. Such things natur-
ally cause panics and all Europe was agoE
at the time. Nothing is so cowardly as
man in mass. unless il be woman Though
the Barcelona outrage and Naillant's attack
upon the chamber of deputies and the bomb
In the Paris cafe have trodden upon the
heels of each other, there is little cause for
widespread alarm. The anarchist societies
Of Europe are neither SO numerous nor 40
formidable as is commonly supposed. They
gain terror from the mystery which IN
velops them. When the rulers of the con-
tinent act In concert TO crush them IL will
be merely the closing of a gloyed hand
upon wcSp.
Things are quiet down in South Caro-
lima said eX-Representative Sam DlbbIe
of Orangeburg. at the Metropolitan. when
1 left home Tillman was still governor and
nobody had recently drawn a bead upon a
dispensary constable. Palmetto whisky. a
tablespoonful OF which will make a man
long TO murder his aged aunt and bury her
under the mulberry tree in the garden. was
selling at standard quotations, but dem and
was not equal to the supply. The LIQUOR
forces are resting upon their arms those Of
them who are not in the guard house in a
comatose condition. There Is now a case
before the supreme court to test the CEN
stitutionality of the law. We expect a YER
dict within thirty days. Until that time n
is probable that the people will stand
around and talk tariff"
Mr.. James B. Davenport of San Fran
cisco entertained some listeners in the lob
by of the National last night with luxuri-
ant accounts of the glories of the midwm-
ter fair. Outside the snow whirlcd down
He gazed at it wistfa,ly ohcoayh the VIM
dow panes and sail that * lcrninsiJd aim
of the vine-'claI rocks ami cuion src, es OF
his own loved land because il w.s 90 DIFF
ferent. The fair, he said. his English be-
ing parboiled and strained for The Star. ia
a success beyond all expac:a.,on. Inc az
tendance has been large, the wca her ma
niicent AMI the show is really ,.cr:l. cross
ing the continent to see, rot to mention the
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