The herald., 1896-10-20
LONG BEACH.
The Equal Suffragists Hold an Enthus-
iastic Meeting,

Saturday night at the tabernacle, under
the auspices of the Woman Suffrage as
sociation, was attended by an audience
that in point of numbers was by far the
largest held here in the interest of wo-
man suffrage. while in intelligence, en-
thusiasm and sympathy with the move
ment there has been none held any
where to surpass it. Clusters and bou-
quets of myriad-colored chrysanthe-
NUNS were tastefully arranged on and
in front of the platform, the edge of which
was draped with graceful pepper
boughs.
The Suffrage club here has done splen-
did work for the cause. and If all the sim
liar clubs in the state and county have
done equally as well, the sixth amend
ment will be adopted, with votes to
spare. The exercises were opened by
The New America, the campaign hymn
of the suffragists, and then Mrs. Camp
bell announced Mrs. Kate Tupper-Gal-
pin, lady, she said, who needed no in
PRODUCTION, as she is known through the
length and breadth of the state for her
splendid work in the interest of women,
and whose fame as a speaker had pre-
ceded her.
Mrs. Galpin was warmly welcomed as
she advanced to the front of the plat
form, and when the handclapping and
subsided, she began an address in favor
of the enfranchisement of women, SO
filled with the justice of their claim
that the audience responded Immediate
ly. She began with a reference to
meeting Of the Afro-American league
in San Francisco. which she had attend
ed. 1t was an interesting meeting. She
heard men there who were born in sla-
very make as good political speeches
as she had ever heard. She learned the
names those negroes loved, and of those
most loved and honored the names of
frequently. While she sat in that meet
ing she thought of a woman whose pen
had electrified the civilized world-one
who told the wonderful story that had
done SO much to free the colored people
and of that other woman, almost
equally famous for her efforts in the
cause of freedom, and with a beautiful
panegyric by the speaker, the names of
the gifted Harriet Beecher Stowe and
Julia Ward Howe were introduced as
those of the two noble women she re-
ferred to. Phoebe and Alice Carey were
also highly extolled, and poem written
by Phoebe fifty years ago, applicable to
the present movement, was read. The
educational amendment adopted two
years ago, disqualifying all persons
from the franchise unable to read the
constitution of the United States in
English, was used as a reason why wo-
men should be enfranchised as, instead
of doubling the vote, it would only
double or reinforce the intelligent vote.
The great reason, she stated, why wo-
men wanted suffrage was to help their
children. They did not care so much
for themselves; it was for their chill
dren and in the interest of good govern
ment and morality they pleaded. She
pointed to the success of suffrage in the
countries and states where it was al
ready established, and gave 1t as her
conviction that California would adopt
1t at the coming election. All the indica-
tions favored it; it was in the air. and
the women of this state had no fear but
the innate chivalry and love Of Justice
characteristic of the men of this glorious
state would, when the votes We're count
ed on the night of the election, be found
to have placed woman on plane of
perfect political equality with them
serves serves. glowing eulogy of the ideal
nome was dwelt upon, and the difficult
ty of getting the women of the state to
leave their homes and take the plat
form in the cause of suffrage was mem
toned. they having to send to New York
ana Boston for speakers to lay the SUBJ
lect before the people. This was men,
tloned, not as sign of the Indifference
or the home maker to suffrage but to
refute the oft-repeated assertion that
the enfranchiSement Of women would
disrupt the home. The success of equal
suffrage, where tried in the countries of
europe and in Wyoming, Colorado
Utah and other portions of our own
country, was held up to show that it
had passed the stage of experiment, and
with an eloquent peroration, and amid
the applause of the audience, the ladv
closed her splendid address.
Attorney A. c. Lawson mounted the
platform and stated that he had attend
ed all the political meetings held here
during this campaign and had heard all
the speeches. both local and imported,
but for good, sound sense and logic
there was none that could for moment
compare with the one to which he had
just listened. Mr.. Lawson spoke about
ten minutes, and his complimentary al
lusions to the ladies and their cause