Show gocr mo cr C C 1 tales mid and t r traditions from from american political history T F FRANK E HAOEN me timp ELMO SCOTT scon WATSON TUE THE LADY CANDIDATE EVER VER hear of mrs belva lockwood lock of new york she was the woman who was twice a candidate for the presidency i of the united states on the equal suffrage ticket that she was defeated on both occasions is beside the point the record shows that thai she was perhaps the most stalwart of the e early arly day advocates of emancipation in all its forms for the lovelier sex and she accomplished most for them in 1882 two years before her likenesses were seen on presidential banners mrs lockwood obtained the admission of women to the supreme court of the united states it was the culmination of a five year battle launched at the suffrage convention in lincoln hall washington in 1877 mrs lockwood was a practicing attorney herself for three years she had been empowered to appear before the supreme court of the district but was barred from the united states body by lack of precedent she established the precedent but it required a fol follow up cam campaign of briefs speeches and bills to obtain the desired end the speech of mrs lockwood at the 1877 convention was convincing to her hearers contrary to current recollections of the masculine type of woman who first demanded political equality she is described in a convention report as entirely feminine As an example mrs lockwood wore a velvet dress and train mrs lockwood was a candidate in 1888 as well as in 1884 she was ac active tive in public life almost to the day of her death in 1917 when eighty seven years old after women were allowed before the united states supreme court she championed the right of negro lawyers to appear there then she shouldered legal cudgels for the indians went as a peace commissioner to europe engaged in a score ot of other worthwhile activities BALLOTS OF HATE THE presence this year of a nationally tio nally known newspaper publisher on an the ticket of a major political party has excited interest in the part newspaper men have taken as candidates in the past one of them who was very active was horace greeley of new york tribune fame a candidate of 0 the liberal republicans and endorsed ased by the democrats to oppose the reelection of grant in 1872 greeley was made a presidential candidate by a reform group of republicans which had found its nucleus in missouri with the election of one of its leaders as governor and later held a national convention at cincinnati cincinnat the cincinnati convention expected its candidate and platform to be accepted by the democratic organization sadly broken up by the disenfranchisement of southerners in the wake of the civil wa war so everyone was amazed when greeley was named presidential estial candidate during the war greeley a c chronic sufferer from nervous disorders had been erratic in his editorial positions shifted them frequently always with the belief that he was expressing what most people wanted while the south was still under arms he had declared with great passion n that the war should not end while slavery existed yet petitioned titio ned lincoln to appoint him commissioner to arrange a peace the result of all this was that he was threatened through throughout om the south and thoroughly hated there yet after the war he signed the bail bond of jefferson davis when the democrats met jit it baltimore a little more than two months after greeleys greelegs Gree leys nomination they adopted the greeley ticket because they felt it their only means of opposing grant A small group it is true broke away from the main body of democrats held a second convention in september at louisville and placed a third ticket in the abeld grant fuss around with the election he won overwhelmingly it was the first time since the civil war that all the states voted and grant carried all but six of them getting electoral votes the states G grant win missouri maryland georgia kentucky tennessee and texas w were ere airey fairly airly representative of the terr territory I 1 which hated greeley but greeley died before the results were known these states would have given him 66 votes had he lived 0 western no anlou |