The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-02-08
THE FIeHr ron WOMAN surFRA or.


Make = Vigorous Canvass IN This state.
SCHENECTADY. Feb. e.-Susan B. Anthony. the
foremost advocate OF women's suffrage In
America. made a short stay here this after
noon while on her way from Johnstown to
Schoharie. To reporter Miss Anthony. who
SAYS she Is three score years and ten and
four more" said:
we are going to make the biggest cam
paIRn In the Empire State this year you ever
heard OF. Last night spoke before a mass
meeting OF the Fulton county suffragists. now
in convention at Johnstown; tonight expect
to address the tenth annual Schoharie County
Convention. After Friday l go to Washington
to attend the twenty-sixth annual National
Suffrage Convention, where reports will be re-
ceived from every state in the Union and dele
gates will appeal to tho Congress for the adop-
tion OF a sixteenth constitutional amendment
giving to women the privileges which the Fiji
teenth granted to negroes"
Miss Anthony declares that she Is satisfied
with the progress OF the work in this country.
and lust now she is bending all her energies
to the carving OF New York state. Speaking
OF the hard times" which she found every
whore. Miss Anthony said they were due to Q
wrong social condition. She said:
The fact that 1t Is condition under which
90 per cent. Of the population depend for their
bread on whether or not the other 10 per cent.
make money shows that 1t is wrong But I
don't believe the men can better 1t any-not
When the reporter asked Miss Anthony to
and would rather. speak OF the cause she so
ably advocates. In reply TO the query have
M''5 Ap as%4. no said Whom wa. young girl
didn't know enough 1t was Ike this; was
murdered the kings English, but who earned
result was that took W female suffrage.
was IN the newspaper business once. Il
was a woman's. rights paper. Did ii. payS
Hardly. lost all the money had saved while
sSsSS am" am Oer Gn eS
had paid up that $4,000 debt. Then had q
Ing on it YET can get $50 or si6o a night to
an! and am devotinG my time and energies to
SARATOGA. Feb. THE women's Constitu-
tional Convention campaign mass meeting for
Saratoga county began here to-day and will
fair attendance. The Convention assembled
this afternoon and was called 70 order and
6bsc ~ OVER b pE nSa ~ hay On saa inc
public sentiment on the cause OF woman sui
frage and to bring 1t to bear upon the state
May In tho Constitutional Convention Of
1857, motion made by George, William
the Constitution received only 10 out OF
2b7 votes but better things are hoped from
the conyention TO assemble In May, and to
million names. asking that equal rights OF ciH-
zenship with men be given to women:
Miss Susan H. Anthony was greeted with up
plause when she took the platform. Her gray
tinged hair was comDed down her tenn
pies and over her ears. and she wore plain
black dress with n handsome red shawl wound
gracefully about her, from the waist upward.
She Is in good health and voice. and spoke
with the earnest vigor OF conviction. Miss
Anthony said she was born In Washing;
ton county. OF Quaker parentage. and
that forty years ago she drove. with
many others. from Greenwich TO Sara
Sss to attend S as,s her st RSSSS
She said the party drove two aud two" and
that her, escort was \ man OF the name OF
some time at,erward Il was a common saying
that susan Anthony had taken wings and
gone to the moon" charge OF % cents was
grea, was the novelty in those days OF wo-
man speaking from the pubic platform that
the hal was crowded Miss Anthony pleaded
from the constitution OF the State OF New
York 10 its use there TO describe who are en-
franchised citizens She said that 10 the past
daughter and the old maid sister or sister
ln-law-to take care OF one man. but now that
the old maid and the daughter could easily
the husband was left To the wife alone. and
she feared thar in many cases the poor woman
had q tough time OF It IN supplying all the
-, shall not be here forty years hence. said
Miss Anthony, but be assured II the men
vote S s 'nSy n n OF
and they will find me a troubls some sister"
In the evening Miss Anthony addressed
lessness OF DISTINGUISHED classes to make,
shape and control their own conditions. moral
and industrial. as well as political"