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glad to recommend it, a it made a pers feet care in my case.MARKS NEW,62 Aisqaith St, Baltimore, Md.WOMAN SUFFRAGE.The Convention ol the Third CongreM-ional District in Its Interest in Session in New Albany,Preliminary Temperance Mass Meeting at the Opera House and Address of Mrs. Helen M. Gongar.The Woman Suffrage movement now being organ zed in Indiana has in its lead several ladies of prominence and fame throughout the couutry. The moat prominent of these are Mis9 Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Helen M. Gongar, Mrs. Zerelda Wallace and Mrp. May Wright Sewell. In all the Congressional districts of the 8tate except the Third, the work has been organized by these ladies, Mrs. Gcugar being the Pretideul of the Indiana National Woman’s Suffrage Association Mrs. Wallace, Vice President, and Mrs. Sewell, Secretary. All these ladies are women of education, refinement and ►rent force upon . the platform. A-: of them except Mrs. Wall are in attendsuce at the Third District Convention which commenced its sessions in mis city at the W. C. T. U. this afternoon ui 2o’clock.Prelimiuary to this convention a public temperance mass meeting was held at the Opera House Sunday afternoon. This meeting was attended by an immense throng of people, the house being literally crowded from parquet to upper circle. Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, of Lafayette, was the speaker. Her address was an argument against the licensed liquor traffic and the evils in the trafic in all its phases. It was remarkably free from the UBual deuuncia«-tion of the saloon men, end held the people, instead of the saloon men, responsible for the trade. She argued very earnestly against high license, against the legislation which she claimed was dictated by associations of liquor men and politicians in their interests, and which she said wan in Indiana all favorable to the liquor interest.As a remedy for the evils complained of she made a strong argument in favor of the enfranchisement of women in municipal elections. The argument was that womenwere the greatest sufferers from the liquor trafic and that they therefore should have a voice in the framing of the laws regula~ ting this trafic. This, she said, was the object of the present woman's suffrage movement in Indiana. The legislature of the State, she claimed, could give woman the ballot in municipal elections without any amendment of the Constitution of the State, and every citizen ought to be willing to concede this privilege to his mother, wife, daughters or sisters. The speaker, in this department of her argument, was fre* quently enthusiastically applauded. Mrs. Gougar iB an attractive speaker, free from rant, and very earnest and at times very eloquent.To-night, at the 8econd Presbyterian church, Miss Susan B. Anthony, of New York, will address the people on Woman’s Suffrage. Miss Anthony is one among the beat known women in America. 8he is a cultured, an eloquent and very effective speaker. The hour for the night meeting is 7:30 o’clock.
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New Albany Ledger
New Albany, Indiana, US
Mon, Dec 05, 1887
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