The record-union., 1896-09-24
BALLOTS FOR THE WOMEN.
Their Champions Plead for the Right
Of Suffrage.
Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chap
man-Catt Address Large
Audience.

For the past ten days Mrs. E. G. Green
of Santa Cruz. State Organizer Of the
Women's Suffrage Association, had
been in the city making arrangements
for mass meeting Of the friends of the
| association to hear the question of wom-
an suffrage discussed by the veteran
Susan b. Anthony and Mrs. Carrie
ChapmanCatt the rising young woman
suffragist from New York.
The meeting was held last evening,
and the Metropolitan Theater was we'll
filled, the ratio being aboutf sixteen
women to one man.
The hour set for business arrived, but
the promoters of the meeting did not,
and the boys in the gallery grew restive.
They beat out tattooS upon the floor and
rested their chins upon the rail in un-
easy anticipation of a universal suf-
frage feast, and refused to be comforted,
even when a spruce young man came
upon the stage and deposited bou-
Quet Of rather ancient looking roses
| upon the little table.
Finally, however, when the boys had
subSided through sheer WEAKNESS, a
show of life was seen IN the wings of
the stage and in few moments the
meeting was at full tide. A. j. Bruner
stepped upon the stage, closely followed
by Susan B. Anthony and several other
ladies.
Mr.. Bruner stated that the meeting
was the opening of the Republican cam
paign In Sacramento County. The Re-
publican party, he said, had indorsed
the proposition to extend the ballot to
the women of the State. and If it was
right that the ballot should be so ex-
tended it was right that the ladies
should be heard upon the subject.
AS starter to the proceeding Mr..
Bruner introduced the Glee Club, which
sang Give the Ballot to the Mothers"
in so effective a manner as to receive
an encore.
Mr.. Bruner next introduced Susan B.
Anthony, whom, he said, was beautiful
in her old age, and who having given
her life to the cause, should be listened
to with attention.
HER REMARKS
Miss Anthony. whose face has lately
become so well known in Sacramento,
owing to her efforts not only in the last
Legislature but in each Of the political
conventions held earlier in the season,
stated that it had been a quarter of a
century since she first appeared before
Sacramento audience, though at that
time the question of extending the suf-
f-age to women was sentiment rather
than an issue.
She related the experience Of the
women in their successful endeavor to
set a suffrage plank engrafted into the
Republican State platform. She felt,
she said, profoundly thankful to the
party for that action, for it would take
with it the majority of the members Of
the party. and those who could not see
the question in precisely the same light
as that advocated in the platform would
give no trouble about the matter.
The Fathers of the Government, the
sneaker said, had not formed a republic
at all, but had simply built up a white
male aristocracy, by declaring a prop
erty qualification, allowing no one to
vote unless possessed of property valued
at $3.50. This was finally done away
with, and the next step, taken in 1861,
was to form a male aristocracy with the
word white" eliminated. And the third
battle. which was on to-day, was for
the purpose of having the word male"
eliminated. SO that there would be in
fact a republic in America.
The feeling of superiority among boys
and ignorant men could not be made to
believe but what the word male" upon
the statute books meant that men were
superior to women, though thinking and
educated men and women knew other
wise.
Miss Anthony concluded her remarks
by introducing Mrs. E. G. Green Of San
ia Cruz, State Organizer Of the women
suffragists.
Mrs. Green, however, had nothing to
say except that there would be another
meeting at the Congregational Church
to-day, to which women were invited
and men, too, if they cared to come.
Then Mr.. Bruner once more came to