The herald., 1896-04-12
Campaign Notes.

Inc campaign IOr WOHau Suffrage, 10
further the adop tion of Amendment No.
NJ. opened at M usic Hall April Sth and
9th. The conven ton was q success COIL
yidering the short time the committee had
20 prepare for so important an event. 1t is
due largely to the zeal and energy of Mrs.
in calling the suffrage workers together,
e!fecting the organization of the county
campaign committee.
The attendance at the convention the
first day was fairly good, but the Intelli-
gence, keen appreciation evidenced that
the majority were in full accord with the
movement, and gave encouragement for
the success of the amendment. Every
speaker proved that for ease. beauty of
thought. fuency of language and dignity of
expression she was the peer of any man as
platform speaker. with her added charms
of wo.uanliness and grace.
TO listen to Rev. Mia Tupper Maynard,
who, for sublimity of thought, beauty of
expression, lifts one up to her lofty ideals
and glories in the honors due to such q
woman, for purity of tliction and grandeur
of conception it was unequaled. The clear,
speaker. each natural and distinct in their
style and method of oratory, met hearty
response in the enthusiasm of the audi
ence.
Miss Elizabeth U. Yates won their hearts
at the beginning by her clear-out words
deeply apprehensive that the mother would
have to go SO far down to 60 to the ballot
box, but the nearer the baby is to the bal
lot box the better the nation; others again
are overcome at what would be the result
of the vote of the bad woman, utterly for
getting that the vote of the bad men against
the good men is something alarming. The
greater woman's political privilege, the
greater the respect accorded her; capacity,
not custom, should determine her fitness
for the franchise.
DR.. Kate Moody gave an interesting and
comprehensive address on the Professional
Woman's Need of the Ballot. In the past
forty.flve years forty-nine medical colleges
have opened their doors and placed women
on an equal footing with man; nine colleges
are devoted exclusively to woman adopt.
ing the medical profession. Great strides
have been made since the days when DR..
Elizabeth Blackwell was forced to buy a
house because she could not secure a rented
one in respectable quar- ters. Mrs. Eliza
Tupper Wilkes, in the forcible handling of
her subject, The Ballot for the Wife and
Mother, appealed to the very hearts of her
thrill through every mother-heart. She
did not ask for the ballot only
as wife and mother but above
and beyond that as q human being. ~
asked a gentleman few days ago how the
ballot affected him as husband and a
that came into his face at the question,
when he knew that it was something above
all these that actuated him-it was the in
dvidual need as a human being. The bal.
lot is not fit for the wife and mother, I'M.
less she is large enough, pure enough, to be
something more than these.
Rev. Anna Shaw, who was in her happi-
est vein, eclipsed all her previous
efforts. Truths forcibly and aptly given.
flew hither and thither, and if there was
any opponent in the audience, it must
have been a tight pinch, brimming with
wit, 1t only made the hits more telling and
the logic unquestioned. g A man that en-
slaves human being is q tyrant, whether
he be an American, czar or sultan; no one
has right to govern another without their
consent. 1 have never heard reason
against woman's suffrage; there may be
prejudices and conservatism, but never a
reason. One man opposes it, because
woman 10 too religious; another, because
there are too many infidels; another, that
1t will double the vote, because she will
vote the same as the husband or father.
yet in the same breath declare that it will
create discord in the family because she
Will vote as she pleases. And SO the argu-
ments y 60 on. l am not good enough to
be Democrat. 1 do not know enough to
he Republican. 1 have not suffered
enough to be a POpulist. l am not sober
enough to be Prohibitionist. Oh, mel