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248 & A Methodist clergyman was here yesterday, to whom I loaned it some time ago, and he said that he wanted to borrow it again, he said that he was perfectly fascinated with it. Go on,dear Mrs. Stanton, writing books that make the world better and brighter and happier and hasten forward the golden day of justice to all. I expect to go to New York for a short visit soon and then I hope to see you again. I will bring you one of my books. With much love and admiration , Yours Most Sincerely, U Marietta Holley Y TLS, on stationery imprinted with address, ECS Papers, DLC. Marked “Dictated .” ••••••••• 103 • Robert G. Ingersoll1 to ECS Dobbs Ferry, [N.Y.] Oct 14—98 My Dear Mrs Stanton We have been moving—working day and night and Mondays— Of course we are going to see you in your new home where the whole world and a part of New Jersey are visible. 2 We all want to see Mrs Blatch and all are glad that she is with you. I hope that now you are going to rest.You have earned the right to enjoy yourself while the Gods do the work. This winter we are to be at 117 East 21st street—Gramercy Park, and possibly you can come and see us and we can read the “Woman’s Bible” together— In a few centuries the women may claim that you were inspired by Mrs God. Let us hope that they will be right. We are just going to Chicago to preach on Superstition—a good religious subject. 3 With love from all to all, Yours always U R G. Ingersoll Y ALS, on stationery imprinted with address, ECS Papers, NjR. 1. Robert Green Ingersoll (1833–1899), orator and lawyer, was an agnostic, whose lectures against the Bible and fundamentalism were enormously popular. He,his wife,and his daughters had been friends with ECS and her family for many years. (ANB.) 14 october 1898 ^ 249 2. While ECS vacationed outside New York City in the summer of 1898, her children completed a move from the apartment on Sixty-first Street to a new one on Ninety-fourth Street. 3. See Chicago Daily Tribune, 17 October 1898, and The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll (New York, 1929), 4:295–349. ••••••••• 104 • SBA to Emmeline Woodward Wells1 Omaha, Neb., Oct. 30, 1898. I wish I could get my word to every loyal woman suffrage woman in Utah,begging her not to cast her vote for Roberts 2 —not because he is a Republican ,Democrat or Populist—but because he is an opponent of political equality for women! No true woman should be instrumental in sending to Congress a man who will not represent genuine Democracy, and who will speak and vote against our Sixteenth amendment proposition to prohibit the several States from disfranchising United States citizens on account of sex. Your women should cast their ballots for true and loyal woman suffrage men for all offices—city, State and national. The best interests of the family cannot be well served by men not willing to grant perfect equality of rights for women in the home, the church, the State and the Nation. Respectfully, U Susan B. Anthony. Y Salt Lake Semi-Weekly Tribune, 4 November 1898. Not in Film. 1. Emmeline Blanche Woodward Wells (1828–1921), editor of the Salt Lake City Woman’s Exponent, had been active in the National and National-American suffrage associations for two decades. At this date, she and SBA were together in Omaha, Nebraska, for meetings of the National Council of Women. Wells also sought SBA’s political advice for her readers in advance of the election of 1896. (NAW; ANB; Film, 35:912–13. See also Papers 3.) 2. Brigham Henry Roberts (1857–1933),a polygamous Mormon,was the Democratic candidate for Congress from Utah. In a state where women voted, Roberts took pride in his antisuffrage leadership at the territorial constitutional convention of 1895, and it is to that record SBA objects. (ANB; The Autobiography of B. H. Roberts, ed. Gary James Bergera [Salt Lake City, Utah, 1990], 184–94; Jean Bickmore White, “Woman’s Place Is in the Constitution: The Struggle for Equal Rights in Utah in 1895,”in Battle for the Ballot: Essays on Woman Suffrage in Utah, 1870–1896, ed. Carol Cornwall Madsen [Logan, Utah, 1997], 221–43.) 14 october 1898 ...

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