Show THE MASSACHUSETTS state legislature has sat down pretty hard on the woman suffrage question The bill giving municipal suffrage to women was defeated recently by a vote of 127 to ST The strange not to say discreditable part of it is that both political parties in their respective platforms plat-forms stand pledged to the cause of woman suffrage The Republicans in their state convention of 1872 pronounced themselves emphatically in favor of complete com-plete woman suffrage The Democratic party did the same in 1SS2 and BENJAMIN F BtTIEIt was elected on that platform but notwithstanding both parties are thus pledged to the enfranchisement of women they both fly the track whenever the issue comes squarely before them thus giving to the fair sex another evidence of mans proverbial pro-verbial inconsistency In politics as in love it is a fault we fear of which the fair ones will find men incurable at least present indications in Massachusetts point that way |