The San Francisco call., 1896-05-13

and Wyoming and how they always voted
on the side of right and morality.
Mrs. Sargent and Mrs. Goodrich made
brief speeches, which were applauded to
the echo.
Miss Ida A. Harper, chairman of the
woman suffrage press committee, made
her maiden speech to a convention of
men. She called attention to the favor
able attitude of the press of this State on
the subject of equal suffrage. OF the 1900
press clippings sent to her by bureau
there were. only twenty-five opposed to
woman suffrage.
I'VE propose to keep this matter nom
partisan" she went on, land will not
allow this cause to be dragged into any
religious controversy if il is in our power
to prevent it."
This declaration was received with much
enthusiasm.
Mrs. Sarah Pnrnell of Sacramento was
the next speaker, and although a stranger
to the majority OF the delegates. was
warmly greeted. She captured the hearts
OF her hearers by remarking that there
was in this convention more tweed and
less broadcloth than she observed in the
Republican convention last week, and
| pondering upon the contrast she had said
to herself that if she could vote she would
vote for the Populists. She mentioned a
painful "reminiscences pertaining to her.
! self.
l.
fortunate at the time of the great railroad
strike in this State as to write some articles
and thereby to tread on some ebody's corns.
That party being power brought his guns
to bear on me and finally succeeded in
bringing me down, so that am to a cer-
tain extent, political martyr"
Mrs. PurnelPs reference was to the fact
| that after she had written those articles in
favor OF the strikers she was dismissed
from her position in the Sacramento
school department by the Board of Edu-
cation of this city.
| Mrs. Hobart followed by congratulating
| Miss Anthony as being one of the most
! splendid examples of ,heroism and endu-
! rance in advocacy of the principles OF
woman suffrage. She spoke of equal wages
| FOR women and men for equal service, and
said that So per cent OF the women of this
Nation to-day were forced to go out OF
| their homes to work to assist their hus-
bands.
After an hour pleasantly spent in this
| way the committee on creden tials ap-
peared with their report, and the work OF
the convention proceeded.
In the Santa Barbara contest the COM
| mittee reported, excluding w. B. Gray OF
the regulars and ]. Bradley and r. a.
Fulweiler of the contestants. They seated
j. Morgan, A. VI. Powell and J. A. Wilcox
of the regulars and j. w. Starkweather oi
| the contestants. Starkweather was one ot
the first, If not the first, delegate to arrive
in Sacram ento. and the result of his work
shows that he had we'll EN- ployed his time
am ong the delegates in pleading his cause
| Randolph of Alameda moved to refer
the list of the Alameda delegates back to
the committee for the reason that one oi
the delegates was an office-holder and
under the rules of the Peoples party could
not sit in a Populist Convention.
The delegate referred to is RlIrdette Cor.
nell, the noted Populist orator. who holds
the position of Deputy Treasurer of Ala
media County. One of the delegation said
that Mr.. Cornell had been working for one
week in the Treasurer's Office, and that al
] the end of the month he would receive his