The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-12
Suffragists Honor Memory
 of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Suffragists throughout the world will honor the memory of one of the greatest pioneers of the cause, Eliza beth Cady Stanton, in commemora- tion of the centenary of her birth. In her. native State, New York, the cen tenia1 celebrations were held last month as features of the ''votes for women campaign which culninated in the election ten days ago. \
 Elizabeth Cady vas born in Johns town N. r., Nov. 12. 1915, the taught CT of Daniel Cady, and received an academic education. From her ear Hest girlhood she was an independent and original thinker. When she was twenty-five years old she became the bride of Henry Brewster Stanton, a journalists, who was ten years her senior. He had been the editor of the Rochester, N. Y., Monroe Telegraph, and was noted as an anti slavery Iec- turer, having addressed audiences in all parts of the country.
 Shortly after their marriage MT. and Mrs. Stanton visited London as dele gates to a meeting of the Anti-Slavery Society. They spent some time in Europe and while there MT. Stanton gained the material for his Sketches of Reforms and Reformers in Great Britain and Ire1and.''
 l. While MT. Stanton returned to jour nalism, and afterwards became editor of the New York Sun he was in full sympathy with the suffrage propa- ganda which his wife fostered. In 1S48 the first woman's suffrage convention in America was held at the home of Mrs. Stanton in Seneca Falls, N. Y. The Johnson Opera House in that town was the scene of the formal gatherin of the pioneer suffra gists, and the edifice, which is still in ex- istence is adorned with a tablet bear ing the words of the suffrage reso1u- ton presented Mrs. Stanton and passed by the first convention The platform of the convention was very radical, demanding equal rights for women in education, the trades and professions, as we'll as universal suf- frage and a share in political offices
 Mrs. Stanton and Lueretia Mott were the leaders in the<movement, which at first only excited ridicu1e from the press and general public.
 From that time on Mrs. Stanton was active in the cause of woman's rights canvassing many states, and inf1uenc- ing legislation in it's behalf. In 1854 she addressed the New York legisla- ture on the rights of married women, and in 1860 she appeared before the same body to advocate divorce for drunkenness. In 1866, while living in New York City, where her husband was an editor on the staff of the Sun, Mrs. Stanton announced herself can didate for Congress, and received twenty-four votes. She annually ad- dressed Congress for over twenty-five years in advocacy of an amendment
 to the United States~Constitution es- tablishing woman suffrage.
 Busy as she was in urging the cause nearest her heart, Mrs. Stanton did not neglect her home duties, and She
 was an ideal wife and mother. She and
 her husband wore in complete sym
 pathy, and the death of MT. Stanton
 in 1887 ended an ideal married life.
 Mrs. Stanton's son, Theodore, was
 born in Seneca Falls in 1851, went to Europe in 1881 as Berlin correspond
 ent of the New York Tribune and was afterwards Paris represe ntative of the Associated Press and the Harper and Appleton publications. Mrs. Harriet 1 Stanton Blatch, daughter of the great
 pioneer, is now leader of the suffrage
 movement, and Mrs. Stanton's grand
 daughter, Mrs. Nora Blatch Forest, is
 also an ardent advocate of the cause.
 Mrs. Stanton died in 1902, after com
 p1eting her autobiography, Eighty
 Years and More"