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WOMAN SUFFRAGE.The Convention ol the Third Congressional District In Its Interest in Session in New Albany,Preliminary Temperance Mass Meeting at the Opera House and Address of Mrs. Helen M. Cougar.The Woman Suffrage movement now being organ zed in Indiana has in its lead several ladies of prominence gad fame throughout the couutry. The moat prominent of these arc Miss Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, Mrs. Zerelda Wallace and Mrf. 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 Preiideut of the Indiana National Woman’s Suffrage Association Mrs. Wallace, Vice President, and Mrs. Sewell, Secretary. All these ladies are women of education, refinement ami ►rest force upon . the platform. AJ ■ of them except Mrs. Wall are in attend*uceat »be Third District Convention which ctm-menced its sessions in inis city at the W. C. T. U. this afternoon at 2o’clock.Preliminary 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 •gainst the licensed liquor traffic and the evil9 in the trafic in all its phases. It was remarkably free from the UBual denuncia-tion of the saloon men, end held the people, instead of the saloon men, responsible for the trafic. She argued very earnestly against high license, against the legislation which she claimed was dictated by a.-aocia-tious of liquor men und politicians in their interests, and which she said was 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 argnment was that womenwere the greatest sufferers from the liquor trafic and that they therefore should have a voice in the framing of the laws regular ting this trafic. This, she said, was the object of the present womau'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 thiB privilege to his mother, wife, daughters or sisters. The speaker, in this department of her argument, was fre« quently enthusiastically applauded. Mrs. Gougar is an attractive speaker, free from rant, and very earnest and at times very eloquent.To-night, at the 8econd Presbyterian chnrcb, Miss Susan B. Anthony, of New York, will nddress the people on Woman's Suffrage. Miss Anthony is one among the beet known women in America. 8he is a cultured, an eloquent and very effective speaker. The hour for the night meeting *s 7:30 o’clock.inibeDcaslIfriHicnrelt;inchtyN*ancoHiRichuseaPic) o:Pihihev:faerVhiNifeRPisthiC.P*SifrMtyniRimtiiPlt;inof01eictClgr81dlt;dilaitn
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New Albany Ledger
New Albany, Indiana, US
Mon, Dec 05, 1887
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