Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-07-13

kcMMN arouSing more or less idle
A40S interest, according to local
Y ~ lty and personality. Just
- now the idle interest be-
comes general, owing to the
presence at the recent national repub-
lican convention of a sprinkling ct
women delegates, and to the efforts
made by the women suffragists gath
cred at Chicago to have inserted in the
republican platform a plank favoring
constitutional amendment preventing
the disfranchisement of American citi-
lens because of sex.
It was back in the late '40s the wom-
an-suffrage movement had birth in the
United States. 1t occurred at the time
the question of radical temperance
measures was being agitated Such
men as William Lloyd Garrison, Wen
dell Phillips and Horace Greeley lent
encouragement to the women in their
support of reforms, and also in their
search of Rights" and leaders and
followers increased. Then came the
abolitionist crusade, and here women
were given added opportunity to take
part in public affairs. This period may
be spoken of as perhaps the most con-
spicuous in our go years history of
womap's struggle for equality
In the woman suffrage ranks to-day
few figures, if any at ALL stand out as
did those of the first leaders-Miss SUI
san B. Anthony, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone,
Amelia BloOmer, Anna Dickinson. OF
these women, probably the most re-
markable of all was Miss Anthony,
who, now at the age of "a, still cor
tinues thoroughly devoted to the ''sa-
cred cause" Once considered a most
improper person, radical entertain
ing views that threatened the peace
and morality of the family, Miss An
thany has lived to see herself no
longer misjudged and reviled by the
rabble; very much revered by a large
number, followers of her beliefs and
observers that are able to yield re-
spect to sincerity and earnestness of
purpose. AS Douglas Story says of
her: Through it all she has emerged
a Serene-faced, white-haired old wom-
an, strong in her principles, justified
IN much that once seemed heretical."
Miss Anthony for over so years has
been the strong business head of the
women's rights people, and has also
labored as politician, orator and re-
former. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
who died but recently, was of quite
different type than Miss Anthony: in
appearance what is called more pleas
ing, more magnetic as a speaker From
the time of her call for the first wOm-
ans congress, in 184S, to her death, in
1902, at the advanced age of SIS, she
displayed the greatest zeal in the in
terests of woman'S progress At the
time OF her death she was honorary
president Of the National American
Woman's Suffrage association.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, who sue
ceeded Miss Anthony as president of
the association, is one of the we'll
known later leaders. Other prominent
woman suffragists of the present are
Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch, 4
lawyer residing in Chicago; Mrs.
Sarah Platt Decker, of Denver, presi-
dent OF the National Federation of
Women's clubs; Rev. Anna Howard
Shaw, vice president-at-large of the
suffragist association; Charlotte Per-
kins Stetson Gilman, the author Many
noted women are quoted as advocates
Of suffrage: Jane Adams, of Hull
House; Clara Barton, of Red Cross
fame; Louise Imogen Quincy, the
poet; Mrs. Henrotin, honorary presi-
dent National Federation Women's
clubs; Julia Ward Howe, Mrs Frank