The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27
DEFEAT FOR SUFFRAGE,
Miss Phoebe CouzinS' Prediction
of the End of the Cam.
paign.
She Has Abandoned Woman Suffrage
Ranks for the Forces of the
BimetalliSts.

Miss Phoebe w. Cousins, the one-time
suffrage leader, has forsaken the ranks of
equal suffragists and enlisted under the
standard of the pimetallists. She passed
through the City yesterday on an engage
ment tour as lecturer for the white metal
My views are un changed as to the JUS
tice of woman's demands for the ballot"
she said, but have concluded after years
OF observation of her in public and private
life that she will not prove the strong
moral factor in politics her advocates have
claimed.
when the test comes women do not
stand for what they call the moralities
l leave out the question of the relation of
the sexes, except to say that for every
immoral man there must be an immoral
woman, and so far as my observation goes
there are as many good women as good
men and no more. inexperienced women
who make the bold assertion from the plat
form that men are immoral cannot be
conscious of the weight of their words.
They do not intend that such structures
shall apply to their fathers, brothers, hus-
bands or lovers, but the male relatives of
other women.
1.-THE campaign of 1894 in Colorado is a
case in point. The Republican women of
Denver were thrown into the breach and
raised the standard which is to me the
most despicable OF all in politics-social
standing. They used money without
stint to adorn the Brown Palace Hotel
with flags, flowers and bunting that would
have provided food and shelter for the
poor of Denver for year. They gave
brilliant receptions at the Brown Palace
and Broadway Theater to men whose flag
rant immoralities were known throughout
the length and breadth of the land. One
of these men was from my home city, st.
7 J., 10 ,o1. - Il
vows had been set forth by the press but a
few months before his leaving st. Louis,
and he 1t was who edited his hearers with
a discourse on The Moral Influence of
Woman and informed them that the
hand that rocks the cradle rules the
world
1.-THE result of the campaign thus
engineered by the women of Denver was
the defeat of the only Governor and the
enfranchise women and to close the gam
bling hells, disreputable houses and saloons.
Within forty-elght hours after the election
these houses were thrown wide open as
result of woman's first balloting in the
State"
Her expectation of the result of the
woman suffrage campaign in this State
was tersely put:
Certain defeat"
"Why?"
Because there has never been suffrage
campaign conducted by women that ended
in anything but overwhelming defeat.
Wyoming won success when a Territory
through the influence OF the Governor and
Legislature. Colorado was carried by the
Populist party and Governor. None or
these prominent suffragists were in the
State or took hand in the campaign, even
at long range. Utah won simply through
the strength of the dominant church.
The suffrage plank was so placed in the
constitution that they could not carry the
constitution without it. The recent de-
feat III New \ ork is striking example of
the inability of women to carry such
campaign to success. Kansas is another.
"Miss Anthony's alleged letter, sent to
the chairman of the suffrage committee in
Oakland, proves, if authentic, q marked
retrogression from her former high stan
dard, in that it appeals to policy rather
than sense of Justice.
There are 10000 Populists in Cali
fornia,' said Miss Couzins. ut is doubt
full whether suffragists may expect any aid
from them considering the late object
lesson in ingratitude to their Colorado
brothers."