Show BELVAS BURLE BID bib for the presidency of the tile united states teems with topics calculated to capture the caprice of nil all classes but she site seems to consider it all ns as fun ur western asad irem press to the UKi ALt washington sept 4 the following 13 ia sire mrs belva A lockwoode Lock woods letter accepting the nomination as thu the candidate of the womans comans national I 1 equal rights party in california for t tho ilo office of president of ihu the united states harriette L slow stowe president eliza C welb webb secretary will and members of the party driving been duly noti notified fled of your ou r petition in the tile convention assembled on august 23 IM in nominating mo as a candidate for the high position of chiel clile I 1 magistrate of the united states as alie clinice of alie e E equal party and although fe feeling ieng unworthy y and incompetent to fill so hi eiph 9 a place I 1 am ain constrained to accept the he nomination BO so generously and enthusiastically tendered by the tile only political party which really and necile truly represents the interests of our aholo pomplo ale north and south east t and west b I 1 believe that with your unanimous and ani cordial support and with the fairness and justice 0 of f our cause ire wes shall liall not only be al able b 1 to carry the election but guide I 1 lie ship of state late safely into port in furtherance of this purpose I 1 have to say that should it be my good fortune to ba be elected and nod should our policy with its grand platform of principles inc be successful in the contemplated t tem plated abed election it will bo be my earnest effort eu urt to promote promote and maintain n equal political poli political privileges to every class of our citizens irrespective t ve of sex color or nationality and to make of this great and glorious countr country 5 in truth what it has so long been in name the land of the free and tho home of the brave I 1 shall seek to insure a fair distribution of public offices to women as well as put to men with scrupulous regard to civil service reform afier women are duly installed into the offices I 1 am als also 0 in accord with avith tile platform of the party in tit the e desire to foster american industries and in sympathy with tile workingmen ard aid wo afen of the country who arc are organized against free trade for the purpose of reude rendering the laboring classes s of our country comfortable and independent I 1 sympathize with the soldiers widows and believe in tile there te enactment of the arrears act and in in THE TUF INCREASE OF or to widows believing that the surplus revenues of the country cannot this bo a better used than in clothing the widows and educating the orphans of our nations defenders I 1 would also the abolishment of the pension office its complicated and technical machinery which so beautifully illustrates how not to do it and ro re conini commend end in its stead three commissioners sio ners whose only duty should cons con in requiring from an applicant for invalid pension his certificate of honorable discharge from the widow 1 proof roof of marriage and from tho the mother proof of birth I 1 lam am OPPOSED TO MONOPOLY in the sense of men monopolizing all of the tile votes and all of the offices and at the tile same time insisting upon having the distribution of all the money both public and private it is is this sort of monopoly that has made possible tha th large breaches of trust of government officials caused bank sus suspensions pens ions and defalcations all over t the country it has engendered and fostered strikes I 1 am opposed to the wholesale monopoly of the tile judiciary by male if elected I 1 shall feel feet it incumbent on me to appoint a reasonable number of women as district attorneys marshals and judges of tho united states and would appoint any competent woman to any vacancy that might occur on the U US S Supreme bench Banch I 1 am in full sympathy with hie file temperance CZ ADVOCATES of t alio I 1 to country es especially ally the tile wo mane mans christian temperance union but that woman suffrage will havo a greater tendency to abolish tho liquor traffic than prohibition will to bring about woman suffrage inthe if the former is adopted tho tile latter will bo be its probable sequence if elected I 1 shall recommend in m my Y inaugural a reform system of laws aa as far as practicable for all of the states and especially for marriage it ge divorce and the limitations occo of contracts and such a regulation of the laws of descent and distribution of estates as will make the tile wife wire equal with the tile husband in authority and right and an equal partner in the common business I 1 favor an extension of our commercial RELATIONS with foreign countries and especially with the central and south american states and tile establishment of a wall court coun of arbitration to which shallie shall be referred all differences that may arise ariso between these several states or between them and the united states my indian policy would 1 bu 0 arat at to iwo the tile government pay thorn them what it ow ivyes es them thein to break up their tribal relations distribute them their lands iu in severally severalty and make them thein citizens ame amenable to tho laws of he land as white and colored persons are while we sympathize with unhappy ireland and devre cato op on one aide side and lawlessness oil ou theother the othar our policy as a nation doen does not allow any oily public r ex x n from our people due con ion will be giyen to the interests of the hone fit industrious home hoole loving german again thanking you for your expressions of esteems este emI think I 1 may jay laarel easely say ay that I 1 fully fally endorse your arho T 0 platform cordially youra yours 9 A Loce Lom woon 11 mrs lockwood says her antimo anti mo and civil service policy ja is as funn funny as that her in lian ilan poli policy cy is good oo 00 sound sense 1 I made a bid a aliu to says for all tho the voters german temperance monopolists antl anti monopolists lista capitalists and laborers I 1 did not know liow how to eel around the germans because I 1 am temperance BO oo I 1 said sald due consideration will bo be div to tho tile honest industrious home loving Germ wiB A letter from a western woman to mrs Lock lockwood rood says she ivaa selected for president because elizabeth Elizab etli cady stanton wag nos too old mary A livermore was too opposed to certain clasia es a suaan susan U B anthony w was as too ciuch of a spinster and lucy stone was too I 1 narrow the tile new candidate tonight to night wrote a letter to her western friends asking about the vice presidency and eay ing that was an important import ant and seri serious matter |