The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-09-23
THE NEW WOMAN.
This Year She Goes In For Politics Will
Eukhusiasm.

This Year She Goes In For Politics With
Enthusiasm.
Never before i'll the history of the
Union have women been so interested
and active in politics as they are this
year. This is the best indication in the
whole political field, in all the parties.
The Republican platform practically i'll
dorses woman suffrage. While the Dem
ocratic platform does not do so formally,
it is we'll known that with the principles
enunciated therein full equality of rights
goes hand in hand, and the men who are
willing to indorse such a platform III
dorse also suffrage for women. For the
first time i'll our history woman has
this summer made at political conven-
/ ton seconding speech to the nomiEa-
ton of presidential candidate. 1t was
at the silver convention in st. Louis.
When Bryan's name was put i'll uoni.
nation, Mrs. Stansber1y of Colorado,
one of the three states in which women
vote, made a speech seconding the pro
posal. On the opening day of this same
convention Miss Lillian Pierce, gifted
young elocutionist, read with telling
effect the Declaration of Independence
1t was a highly dramatic scene when,
Immediately after Bryan had been
named, Miss Pierce snatched up the
great flag Of the California delegation
and marched round and round the con
vention hall with it, followed by an en-
thusiastic procession, while hats and
handkerchiefs waved, enthusiastic dele
gates cheered and shouted and 1.-THE
band played on" with lively, inspiring
music. Before the war woman who
would have done thing like that, or
who would have tried to make speech
at presidential convention, would have
been considered crazy and would have
been arrested and removed from the
hall. Fact In the east and the west
women are forming their own political
clubs according to their party affilia
tions. Mrs. Clarence Burns. president
of one of the women's Republican clubs
| here in New York city, is an intellec-
tual, public spirited lady and so noble
) and beautiful a specimen Of physical
, womanhood that it is pleasure to look
J at her A physician of the city, DR.. Ella
: A. Jennings, is president of newly or
: ganized Bryan and Sewall club. So it
is all over 1t is not SO much that these
ladies belong to this, that or the othel
: party 1t is that they have walked VI
and are recognizing at last their share
in the citizenship of this republic
| Mrs j. Ellen Foster, president Of the
: Women's National Republican associa'
5 ton, is organizing her forces for active
8 and aggressive work
!, The editor of the solemn and hide
, bound Outlook opposed with all hi
might the suffrage amendment to tho
New York state constitution two years
ago. His wife came boldly and not a
G all reluctantly out from the blissful do
, mestic seclusion which she so eloquently
!. recommended for all women except her
self and helped Rev. Lyman Abbott il
his work Of trying to keep women il
bondage. 1t made the friends of WON
ans emancipation cry out, i'll sorrow a
we'll as anger, Oh, for one hour of tina
Henry Ward Beecher whose pulpit Rev
| Abbott rattles around inl And now
7 now, the cream Of the joke comes in
This same solemn and hidebound oil
Outlook is calling aloud in the wilder
ness to women, Come out and help re
form municipal government. 1t urge
in it's grave and ponderous way tn
formation of municipal reform club
among women. 1t actually steps dow
from its lofty pedestal of masculine su
periority and condescends to inform GU
feeble minded sex how to run sue
clubs. 1t desires the women Eat leas
, once month" to let the men into thei
}. meetings, presumably so that wise me-
+. like Rev. Lyman Abbott may tell al
.. these poor ignorant creatures what
10 the matter with them and the world
70 How nice all this is to be sure! Blu
n what a long distance it is away fror
=. that blissful domestic seclusion in whic
!. Rev. Lyman and Mrs. Lyman Abbot
m have declared all women shine mos
/. brilliantly. And how much better an
easier and more direct it would be fo
RI women to reform municipal admins
ta tration if, instead of this fuss and ind
| rect action, all they had to do was I
"a step up to the ballot box in their bef
AZ street gowns and drop vote in for tn
TX right city officersl
70 ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER.