Show I REPUBLICANS TO BLAME Woman Suffrage in California Defeated by Them SO SAYS REV ANNA SHAW NOTED StrFFRAGIST AND HER PAR OT VISITING SAL LAKE II I I I I Republican Opposition Combined I with the Highest and Lowest I Grades of Society to Prevent the 1 Golden State Women from Enjoying Enjoy-ing the Ballot MIs Shaw Given a I Reception at the Templelon Yesterday Yes-terday I Accompanied by Other I Women of Note Delivered an Interesting In-teresting Lecture at the Assembly Hall in the Evening The Rev Anna Shaw the woman who has rung applause from a thousand thous-and audiences with the declaration that she has no patience with Jhe woman who has nothing better to do than make a crazy quilt arrived in Salt Lakfe yesterday from California accompanied accom-panied by a party of women of note together with whom she has been for several months engaged in a campaign to secure the ballot for the women of the golden state The party was given a recention at the Templeton in the afternoon and in the evening Miss Shaw delivered an address at Assembly hall The distinguished ladies leave to I continue on their eastward journey this morning Miss Shaw is the great woman suffragist who for a generation has devoted de-voted her life to the pulpit and to the uplifting of womankind in an effort to establish equal suffrage a an American institution In her work she has won a name national in its extent ex-tent and a a pulpit and platform ora tor she has no Deer or peeress peer she would have i among ti5 women of the land not even in her illustrious compeer Susan B Anthony who has also been engaged in the California campaign I Accompanying Miss Shaw were Miss Mary G Hay of Indianapolis Miss Lucy E Anthony a niece of the illustrious illus-trious Susan B Anthony and private i secretary to Miss Shaw of Philadelphia Philadel-phia Miss Emma Sweet of Rochester private secretary to Susan B Anthony An-thony and Miss Harriet May Mills of Syracuse The party arrived by the early Union Pacific train from Ogden I Misses Shaw and Anthony were driven at once to the home of Mrs E P Empey Misses Hay and Sweet to that of Mrs Dr Shipp and Miss Mills to the home of Mrs Rachel Miller where they were entertained entertaiped THE RECEPTION In the afternoon Miss Shaw and her party were given a reception in the parlors of the Templeton hotel and though the weather was so severe that only a limited number of Salt Lakes ladies felt able to attend and do honor to the distinguished champion of their rights those who did brave the tempest tem-pest spent a most enjoyable afternoon and tude felt amply repaid for their forti I Not all of the ladies who were to have received were able to be present II at 2 oclock the hour set for the reception re-ception to begin and Mesdames Em meline B Wells W S McCornick E J McVicker and A W Grant did the honors The reception lasted till 5 oclock and was attended by all the ladies of the party Mesdahies E B Wells W S McCornick E J Mc I Vicker C E Allen S M Kimball J S Richards of Ogden J S Daveler r arles Cr > = mon Dr E R Shipp A i I W Grant H S Young George Savage I Jiiai0aiet A Came county auditor elect E W Hyde E S Taylor W O I Williams I Hanley E J Stevenson R K Thomas Emma Empey and the Misses Katz Lyde and Emmeline Wells and Nellie Morns Miss Shaw was of course the center of interest and with her callers seated about her in semicircle fashion entertained en-tertained them with an enthusiastic description of the California campaign which resulted disastrously the causes leading to the defeat of the women and the progress the cause is making throughout the land TH CALIFORNIA FAILED Miss Shaw attributes the defeat of the constitutional amendment in consttutonal Cal fornia to a variety of causes principal among which she says was the liquor element of San Francisco seconded by the lower classes The Republican party of the state comes in for the next most liberal share of the blame and on Knob Hill the ultra fashionable element of San Francisco society rests the remainder of the responsibility The California legislature provided for submitting an amendment to the constitution to give women the ballot bal-lot she said in conversation with a Herald reporter yesterday and the women went to work to secure its adoption by the people In the last election elec-tion Miss Anthony Mrs Catt the ladies who are with me and myself went early to California to assist the women there and the hardest there campaign cam-paign that has ever been waged in any I state for woman suffrage a made there Miss Anthony though 76 years of age went through the whole campaign cam-paign and did as much work as the youngest Had it not been for San Francisco we should have carried the state for we carried all the rest of i but one county Alameda and our majority outside out-side of that county was large enough to have overcome that could we have carried San Francisco So i was there we were defeated and we owe our defeat de-feat there to three forces In opposition They were the liquor element which combined the lower classes the aristocracy aris-tocracy of the city and the Republican party The liquor element which is an immense one in San Francisco worked insidiously for months never showing its hand in opposition however how-ever till at the last when they came I out boldly in antagonism to the amendment amend-ment They of course worked chiefly among the men on the water front the longshoremen and such classes of employed men and the vicious classes To show you how they worked they instructed these ignorant ones to mark their cross against the amendment and went no further They were afraid to teach them to support any candidates for fear they would get mixed but simply taught them to put their cross opposite the last thing on the ticket which was against the amendment and scores of tickets were found so marked Then wet had the aristocracy against us as shovn by the returns We carried car-ried every ward except the ones in which the greater number of aristocrats aristo-crats of the city lived and the ones dominated by the liquor forces but the wards in which lived the middle classes the plain common people were with us without exception We also owe much of our defeat tote to-te Republican party Thy declared for suffrage in theltr pOatform but wfoen the oo < 3e o the campaign drew near they began to knife us and even through the campaign their speakers were careful 1 avoid any mention favorable vorable to the amendment At the close thsic atgn1EC became open and pro flounced and the Chronicle even came out for seer days before electron day wibh a ticket marked as it would have the people Y < t and there was across a-cross placed agalncit the amendment agIclt Ta3 Democrats refused to declare fee H le amendment in their platform bui they refiuIneM from antagonism oit and several of thetfr speakers espousd the cause A actable instance was that of Cong st McGiire wCio came out nobly and advocated the amendment So altaiougu the Democrats Demo-crats did noJhSner fcr us i fhslr convention con-vention we have much to thank hem for and the Republicans nothing Miss fLaw said thai great prepara Tnen are bcTn great thai some achieve of the adoption of the amendment fee il C was conflderiSy expeclted ttunt it would caiTy but wihen x i was learntd the day was lot 2ie ratifi catlon meeting was turned inio one r scii I tde movement I on foot again and sued erttiusiacm aswan as-wan tlhsre manifested tCie said demonstrate demon-strate Chad the cause is net dead In California The party leaves tlvls morning for KUnaas City to c1 end the Missouri state convention of the vromca suf fIg sl and from tee will 1 g to SL Louis t atijsai the national convention conven-tion of the W C T U who mecis there E try From St Louis Miss Hay wH roticn to California to take ciiQirge of the work of going before tihs CJce el legtulature again this winter and king k-ing for the submission of the question once more The reel of the party will go from SL Louis to Rochester N Y g be present art a reception to be tendered ten-dered Mss Susan B Anttony by heir town pe9 e Miss Anthony i now in Scl1mento and will g direct to Kan thence the sas City t C acccrnpanying party to her home WihuSe at Rccliester be ladies wE al ted the New York state convention c liihe l suffragists MISS SHAWS LECTURE Miss Shaw was to have lectured ait the Tabernocle last evening but the severe weohiier C the day made it unldkcCy that so large a place wouM be neee33ary and tfce Assembly hall was subiututed Am audience of 200 or 300 had assembled as-sembled tbere when at 830 Mica Shaw made her appearance She was met by Governor and Mrs Wells Mrs E B Wells Mrs Ziraa D H Young and the ladtes of tua party and escorted to the speakers stand G overact Weto in presenijing Miis Shaw to the audience raid it was a true sayingr that set se-t T8 thud bran mad for a ratifioahon greatness and that ctdetrs have great ness thrust upon the buir that there nGsicv + x X v rvOi fr ivi Viaif cmMin r to LV V h U LU L 0 I I show how women become great In this 1 I world it seemed that women bacane I great only by aohievement Miss Shaw he rfd was to > well known here to need a1 introduction anI iie knew the people present would join wlifh him in extending her a hearty welcome Applause Ap-plause greeted Miss SfaaA as the stepped forward She began by saying she had been making speeches r much in the campaign I cam-paign she had just gene through that tihe knew hardly how to begin for she wanted to say someitslng touching upon poljjics and the nnnCetry bclh and sue was afraid she wouSd find lit a difficurt thing to bring tJyai boai in accord She found a way however and delivered deliv-ered Q lecture tat mot with hearty accord ac-cord among the women and wasMlber alfly applauded by tide I men aa well She thought the present political conditions con-ditions of the country were such as to predict good for the country for the people were becoming aroused on the subject of woman suffrage She then described the campaign in California and said there had never been such another waged within her experience The women of Utah she said had the men to back them up but the women of California had been alone in their fight practically for while there had been good men to enlist in their behalf there were few of them who had been prominent and influential She said the candidates especially among the Republicans had rarely taken any part in favor of the amendment amend-ment and that though the political parties allowed the women to appear on the same stage with their speakers they were always required to wait till all the candidates and other speakers speak-ers had spoken This she attributed to the fact that the liquor element had declared de-clared against suffrage and the candidates candi-dates were not willing i they were so forces inclined to antagonize the liquor Miss Shaw described how the liquor forces had taught the ignorant to put a cross against the amendment and let it go at that and said that in one ward in Chinatown native Chinamen are permitted the franchise there were 30 votes counted on which there was no other mark except that against suf frace fraceNo No man no one can appreciate the humiliation she said of the native born American woman the descendants descend-ants of the men who defended the nation na-tion who had made i being refused the ballot while a Chinaman too balot whie Chinaan ignorant ig-norant to know anything about the use of the franchise but to be taught to vote against extending if to her may cast his ballot inrainst allowing these descendants of the fathers of the nation na-tion to become a part of the ton 3 pat government govern-ment mentThere There are they said Miss Shaw who argue a 3 reason against suffrage suf-frage that the men would be tied to the a iron strings of the woman In Pan Francisco we had the spectacle of the men having the alternative of be ing tied to the apron strings of the woman or to the apron strings of the bartender They chose the latter Miss Shaw said that the proposed amendment in Idaho had been declared carried making that state the fourth star in the suffragist flag and predicted pre-dicted that the movement would continue con-tinue to grow till the whole nation shall have been won She argued that every time the franchise has been extended ex-tended in any country I has been for good and that this last step in the direction di-rection of freedom of women meant more than all that ha gone before She contended that if women are petty and sordid it is because they have been made so by having their opportunities circumscribed and held that whatever tends to make men broader and more i mae liberal ought to be extended to women that they may become equally as advanced ad-vanced She turned her attention to the kindergarten kin-dergarten and said that it was a institution in-stitution and described the great good they are doing in the land in the direction direc-tion of teaching the children of the age greater human She devoted humanity considerable con-siderable time to this subject and then returned to the campaign in California During i she said she could not help but be impressed with the idea that the party speakers felt that the life pf the nation did not depend upon the character char-acter of the people but Instead upon the kind of metal its money was made of S FELL BECAUSE OF IMMORALITY She argued that every republic that has ever fallen has not done so because of gold or silver monometallism or protection tection but that they died from within from the diseased moral and spiritual nature of their people She referred to Roman greatness the Grecian republic and the Dutch commonwealths and said they were the greatest with the exception of the United States that the world has ever known in material prosperity yet they had all fallen because be-cause of the immorality and lack of spirituality of their people Man she said had always been the fighter in the world had always done the busines and it was due to him the advancement the world has made in the matter of government I was along masculine lines that all republican republic-an forms of government had been formed and through licentiousness and weaknesses on the part of the men and want of the influence of the good woman In government that they had decayed The republics had been formed on masculine lines because only men had voted and womans nature has not been felt in government because I they have been denied the privilege hence what might have been achieved has not been known Miss Shaw dwelt at considerable length on the subject of the home and related an incident in her life to illustrate illus-trate a mans love of home and said that while the industrial side of government gov-ernment needed to be legislated for the home should be looked after in legislation leg-islation What was needed in government govern-ment was the moral spiritual influence of the home The only way that wom ans influence and the influence of the home could be felt in government was by admitting woman into government Miss Shaw asserted strongly the belief be-lief that the great danger to the nation na-tion lay not in gold nor silver nor protection pro-tection nor the need of any one or more of them but that it was immorality immor-ality licentiousness etc on the part of the people I the nation die she said it would not be because of the former but the lajier Concerning the question which she said was a frequent one with some men why do women want to meddle in politics Miss Shaw said We want to meddle in politics because politics i pol-itics meddles with us I always has I and always will Politics makes laws and under those laws mortgages on I homes are to be foreclosed Women have as great an < interest in those I homes as the men and are therefore just as much Jnte tepn legislation and ought to belpermitted to help frame i Miss Shaw closed predicting that Utah under the influence of the women in pHH < Mii i Ylf to ll i prosperity than has ever been known cI c j |