The herald., 1896-06-18
THE WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE
AMENDMENT

What Is known as the woman's suf-
frage amendment to the state constitu-
ton is, in view of the activity of the
woman suffragists at present, sub
ject of considerable interest, which
doubtless is the cause of many requests
made of The Herald for its publication
The amendment is designated officially
as Assembly Constitutional Amendment
No H. and is to section l of article OF
the California constitution. 1t reads as
follows:
Section /. Every native citizen OF
the United States, every person VINO
shall have acquired the rights of c1ti-
zenship under or by virtue OF the treaty
of Queretaro, and every naturalized cit
izen thereof, who shall have become
such ninety days prior to any election,
of the age of u years, who shall have
been a resident of the state one year
next preceding the election, and OF the
county of which he or she claims to
vote ninety days, and in the election
precinct thirty days. shall be entitled
to vote at all elections which are now
or may hereafter be authorized by
law; provided, no native of China, no
idiot, insane person, or person convict
ed of any infamous crime, and no per-
son hereafter convicted of the embez-
money, and no person who shall not be
able to read the constitution in the
English language, and write his or her
own name, shall ever exercise the priv
ilege of an elector in this state; pro-
Vided that the provisions of this
amendment relative to an educational
qualification shall not apply to any
person prevented by physical disa-
biity from complying with it's requisi-
tionS. nor to any person who now has
the right to vote, nor to any person
who shall be 60 years of age and upward
at the time this amendment shall take
effect"
This amendment will be voted on at
the general election occurring in Novem-
Der next. If it receives majority of
the votes cast at that time it will be-
come a part of the constitution without
further proceedings. 1t reads the same
as article 2, section l. of the amended
constitution of California except that
the word "person" is substituted for
male" the words "he or she" for ''he"
and the words "his or her" for "his." 1t
is printed in the statutes of California
for the year 1895, page 459.
The information now drifts out that
'In the inner circle it has been no secret
from the beginning that both Major
Mckinley and Mr.. Hanna were person
ally favorable to a declaration for the
maintenance of the gold standard, so
long as the present financial condition
of the leading commercial nations was
to continue. There We're complications
existing, however, which forbade Mr.
Hanna giving his views of the money
question or from throwing his influence
into the anti-conVention campaign in
the direction of his personal prefer
ences." The complications" so delicate
ly referred to We're to be found in cer-
tain western states needed to make up
the Mckinley strength in the conven-
tion. Until the delegations from these
states We're secured, trapped with
bait consisting of McKinley's record in
favor of legislation for silver, his tongue
refused to articulate and his hand de-
clined to write about the financial is
sue. Now that these needed delega-
tions from the West are landed, tied
hand and foot with positive instructions.
in the convention, his managers are
ready to impart to the world that they
are not and have not been for anything
other than gold standard and against
the free coinage of silver. This is not
honest politics, but it is characteristic
of Mckinley and Hanna politics.