The San Francisco call., 1896-08-26
Three Parties Adopt a Suffrage
Plank in Their Plat.
forms.
ANOTHER LECTURER COMING.
Mrs Chapman.Catt Will Soon Be Here
ard Lend Her Eloqu nee to
Help the Cause.

Picnic oratory is field in which the
brilliant lady orators of the woman SUI
frage cause have had little chance to dis
tinguish themselves, at least in this State.
Now. however, the party leaders are COM
mencing to invite the more eloquent
speakers connected with the movement to
attend the country frolics oftheirfollowers
and address the festive gatherings on the
theme which holds so deep an interest for
the women of California.
EYES," remarked Miss Mary E. Hay, the
State organizer and chairman of the
Woman Suffrage State Central Committee
yesterday, 1--WE are going to shine on the
picnic platform as we'll as on the stage.
Not that the politicians will expect us to
caper about over the dancing floor, but
they do want us to talk about suffrage to
people who are out in the woods for good
time. We have selected few OF our best
speakers for the work, and whatever OF er
fault the audiences may find at all events
they will not call the suffrage speeches
dry"
Among the speeches to be delivered in
the near future at picnics and elsewhere
will be several by Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait, well-known suffrage orator, who
will soon arrive from the East. The
lady's success in the East has been phe-
nomenal, and her advent in California
will, it is believed, be great help to the
suffrage cause during the ensuing CAM
paign. She will speak at series of par
lor meetings on the evenings of the 7th,
9Th and 10th of September and at the Popu-
list picnic to be held on the 9th of Septem-
ber at Haywards. Miss Anthony will
stalk suffrage" as she calls it, before the
Laurel Club on the I'd OF September, and
@f +l,n l.,y,, do HArrt, al
Suffrage Club at Leona Heights on the
9th. Mrs. Ida c. Hazlett will address
Populist picnickers at Tulare and Modesto
on the 28th and 18th insts., Mrs. E. G.
Greene performing q similar Office at Wat
sonviile on the 2Sth. Miss Shaw will
lecture at Martinez on the night of the
9th inst, at Simpson Memorial Church
in this City on the 28th, before the Oak
land Y. M. c. A. on the 9Th of September,
and before the Labor Council of this City
on the following evening IN Metropolitan
Temple.
"I thought my cup OF Joy was full as 1
left that glorious meeting last Saturday
night" said Miss Anthony, ''but now q
new happiness has been granted to me.
have just received the encouraging news
that in Idaho the Democrats, Populists
and Silverites have all adopted woman's s
suffrage plank in their party platforms,
and l am assured that the Republicans
will do the same at their convention,
which is to open on the 26th OF this
month. Idaho has been we'll organized
with woman suffrage clubs for over q
year, some of our best speakers having
been laboring there ever since the agita-
ton commenced.
"The example OF California has evil
IDENTIFY born fruit in Idaho, and when the
State has once admitted women to the bal
lot, the influence of this good example
will be even more powerful and far-reach-
ing. Our cause owes much to The CALL,
which we all regard as our paper. l hear
its circulation has greatly increased, es-
pecially in the interior districts, since its
espousal of the woman suffrage cause.
The interest which women in the country
are taking in the present fight for equal
political rights is most intense. I know
of cases where they have travelled ten, fif-
teen, twenty or more miles, over dusty,
hot roads. in order to attend a suffragist
meeting or get the latest news of the
movement THE CALL has become, so to
speak, gospel of hope to these devoted
women of the farm and sierra"