Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-07-22
". c. 7. U. COLUMN.
SELECTED BY NORRIS UNION.
samuel D. Hastings.l


one of this kind.
The suffrage movement has it's owl
organizations, national, state and local
and through the agency of these
organizations most efficient anC
and successful work is being done
Let the friends of woman suffrage
cooperate with the organizations anC
do all in their power to induce mer
of all parties to support them, and il
this way the end sought will be Sc
cured much much sooner than in any
o.her way, In this way full suffrage
has been secured in Wyoming, Colo
RADIO, and Utah. The Prohibition
party, as a party, did nothing that
really helped suffrage in these states.
Members of the party, working
through the suffrage organizations
may have helped, but the indorse-
ment of the movement by the Prohi-
bition party did it more harm than
good. The special advocates of suff-
rage understand this, and their opin-
ions are entitled to respectful consid-
erations.
The Woman's, Journal the ablest
and most representative organ of the
suffrage movement, advises suff1a-
gists 80 let parties and platforms
severely alone, supporting friends
and fighting opponents irrespective
of party lines
On another occasion The Woman's
Journal said: "Sufragists do not
claim that woman sugrage will or will
not establish prohibition" And Miss
Anthony, the great apostle of the
movement, said, identification with
the Prohibition party would be death
to woman suffrage" 1t is perfectly
clear to my mind that the Identified
ton of the two movements during the
past twenty odd years has been of in
calculable injury to both.
The American suffrage association,
before the presidential campaign of
1894, resolved and published that
success will be promoted by refusing
to connect woman suffrage with any
political party or take sides as SUI
fragists in any party conflict"
We had a striking illustration of
the way this thing operates when the
question of school suffrage for women
was submitted to popular vote in
this state WISCONSIN, in 1886. At
our state convention held that year,
while some of the suffragists favored
a plank in the platform in favor of
suffrage in general, all joined in warn
ing the party to say nothing about
school suffrage" upon which they
were shortly to vote, fearing that in
case they did SO it would be certain
to defeat the measure. The Prohi-
bitionists kept quiet, and the measure
was carried, not upon it's merits, how
ever, but by default.
There were 1851 votes polled in
favor of school sugrage for women,
and 38,998 against it, being a total
vote of 82,577 and majority Of 1858
in favor of the measure. At this cleo
ton 286,332 votes were polled for
governor, showing that there present
at the polls 2O9, 953 persons who did
not vote either way upon the suffrage
question.
Had the liquor interest got hold of
that this school suffrage question was
a favorite measure of the Prohibition
lists they would have rallied their
forces and changed the small majority
of tens of thousands against it!
AS the result of caref, investiga-
ton of the matter, | am fully con-
vinced that the suffrage plank in our
platform has not only been drawback
to the growth of our party, but has
been great drawback to the success
of the suffrage movement by creating
where it otherwise would
not have existed, and I can not but
regard the action of the Pittsburg
convention in the adoption of plat
with only the single issue of prohibit
ton as providential, and that both
prohibition end woman suffrage will
be greatly advanced in consequence
of this action.
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