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Newspaper articles about Belva Lockwood
Photocopies, many of which are cut off or incomplete. Contains newspaper articles, tributes, political cartoons, and her obituary. Also includes sheet music for a song about Belva Lockwood written by De Wolf Hopper. The articles, some of which were written by Lockwood, discuss for campaigns for president of the United States, her prominent cases as a lawyer, and her peace and women's suffrage activities. There are also many articles announcing her birthdays later in life since she had become a very prominent figure.
Lockwood, Belva Ann, 1830-1917
1884-1917
91 pages
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Belva Ann Lockwood Papers, SCPC-DG-098
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LETTER OF ACCEPTANCH OF
BELVA A. LOCKWOOD,
NOMINEE OF THE
Woman’s National
“Equal Rights Party.”
SAN FRANCISCO Aue,
BELVA A. LOCKWOOD,
Mapam: We have the honor to
inform you that vou were numinated, at the Woman’s
National Equal-Rights Convention, for President of the
United States. We await your letter of acceptance with
breathless interest.
Marietta L. Stow, Chairman
Eliza C. Webb, Secretary.
Marietta L. Stow, Chairman, Eliza 0: Webb;
23-84, 1921 Sacramento-st,
tional Equal Rights Executive Committee,
action in Convention assembled, August 23-84,
in nominating me Candidate for the high posi-
try and loyalty to the Woman Cause constrains
ad ‘onthusiastically}tendered by the only polit-
weal py yact . Y whieh really: and truly: ‘represents
the inté sae, ole people, Ni orth, Se South?
East'and V Fest; becguse I believe that with your
unanimous and cordial support, and the fair-
/ness and justness of our Cause, we shall not
only be able to carry the election, but to guide
the Ship of State safely into port.
In the furtherance of this purpose I have to
say that should it be my good fortune. to be
elected, and should our party, with its grand
platform of principles, be successful in the con-
templated election, it will be my earnest endeav-
or to promote and maintain equal political
privileges to every class of our citizens irrespec-
tive of sex, color or ational, and to make of
WOMAN'S PR
F Zc Ny
ESIDENTIAL
Iam opposed to monopoly in the sense of the
roenof the country monopolizing all of the votes
and all of the offices, and at the same time in-
4] sisting upon having the distribution of all of the
It is this sort of
monopoly that has made possible large breaches
money both public and private.
of trust with government officials, caused bank
susvensions and an epidemic of defaleations
over the country. It‘has engendered and fos-
tered strikes.
Tum opposed to the wholesale monopoly of
the judiciary of the conntry by the male voters.
If elected, I shall feel it incumbent on me to ap-
point a reasonable number of women as district
Secretary, and Members of the Woman’s N ® tent woman to any vacancy that might occur on
Mesdames: Having been duly notified of your |
tion of Chief Magistrate of the United States, a greater tendency to abolish the liquor traffic,
and although feeling unworthy and incompetent:
to fill so exhalted « position, duty to my. eyo .
me to accept the flomination—so generously |.
* them and the United States.
attorneys, marshals and judges of the United
States Courts, and would appoint some compe-
ithe United States Supreme Bench.
i Tam in full sympathy with the temperance
advocates of the country, especially the N. C.
‘T. U, but believe that Woman Suffrage will have
than prohibition will to bring about Woman Suf-
itrage. If the former is adopted, the latter will
ihe its probable sequence.
If elected, I shail. ecommend in my inaugural
sda oflews:28 | ka$ aras'practi_
q
Per uniform sy:
et ane een ye
‘cable forall of the states; and especially or mar-
riage, divorce, and the limitation of contracts,
and such a regulation of the laws of descent and
distribution of estates as will make the wife
equal with the husband in authority and right,
and an equal partner in the common business. .
I favor an extension of our commercial rela-
tions with foreign countries, and especially with
the Central and South American States, and the
establishment of a high court of arbitration to
| which shall be referred all differences that may
arise betwecn these several States, or between
My Indian Policy would be, to break up their
ti 4 untry in trath ,e
this great and glor niry in truth what it}
“The Land of the’
Free and the Home of ‘tho Brave.”
I shall seek to insure a fair distribution of the
public offices to women as well as to men, with
a scrupulous regard to civil service reform—aft-
er the women are duly installed in offee.
I am also in accord with the platform of the
party in the desire to protect and foster Amer-
can industries, and in my sympathy with the
working men and women of the country, who are
organised against free trade, for the purpose ot |
rendering the laboring classes of our country
comfortable and independent.
I sympathise with the soldier and the soldier's
widow ;—believe in the re-enactment of the Ar-
rears Act and the increase of pensions to wid-
ows, believing that the surplus revenues of the
country can not be better used than in clothing
the widows and educating the orphans of our
nation’ s defenders. I would also suggest the
abolishment of the Pension Office with its com-
‘plicated and technical machinery, which so
beautifully illustrates how not to do it, and re-
‘commend in its stead three commissioners,
! whose only duty should consist in requiring
from an applicant for invalid pension his cer-
titicate of honorable discharge, from a widow
4 proof of marriage, and from a mother proof of
birth.
has so long been in name:
m6:
tribal relations, distribute to theni their lands
in severalty, and make them citizens, amenable
to the laws of the land, as other white and col-
ored persons are.
While we sympathize with unhappy Ireland
and deprecate oppression on the one side and
lawlessness on the other, our neutral policy as a
nation does not allow any public expression
from our people. ae
Again thanking you ladies for your expres-
sions of esteem, Ethink that-tmay-safely—say
that I-futly-enderse your -wholeplatform.
Cordially yours,
CAMPAIGN.
CAMPATGN NOTES.
“Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring out the false, ring in the true.”
“Cowards win not in the race, put victors enter in.”
Wowman’s Henaxp or Inpustry, is by far the ablest
exponent of “Woman’s Rights” that we Lave ever
seen.—New York Daily Record.
My Caninet, if I am elected, will be made up of
some of the very best men and women of the country.
I will endeavor to secure what has never before been
received, an equal and fair distribution of all offices.
Am in favor of Civil-Service Reform, and after the
women are thoroughly secured in office, I will see
that the law is rigidly enforced.—Butva A, Lock-
woop,
PresipentiaL Canpipares: James G. Blaine and
John A, Logan; S. Grover Cleveland and ‘Thomas A.
Hendricks; Benjamin F. Butler and A. M. West; Ex-
Governor St. John and Mr, Daniel; Belva A. Lock-
wood and Clemence 8, Lozier, M. D.
Stick the list in your hat, and if the male candidates
do not come up to your standard, cast your vote for
Lockwood and Lozier—“Equal-Rights.”
‘The campaign so far has been quiet, but Tue Crrr-
ro will wager good money that the “aggressive” part,
which the two old parties have promised, will loora
to the front now.—Evening Critic, Wash., D. C.
Candidate Lockwood’s letter of acceptance is the
best ofthe lot. It.is short, sharp, and decisive. She
means what she says and says what she means, It-
is evident that Mrs. Lockwood, if elected, \ " haye.
icy; and ip many.respects@hat policy
mend itself to all people of common seuSe, LL...
campaign may not be a success, but her letter cer-
tainly is. Itis a great pity that if did not appear
earlier in the campaign, so that all the other candi-
dates might have had the benefit of perusing it and
framing their several epistles in accord with its pith
and candor.—Evening Stur, Wash., D. C., Sept. 4-84.
After puplisbing the Equal-Rights “official letter”
and its nominee’s “letter of acceptance” in full, the
National Republican says,” Mrs. Lockwood lives at
619 F street, in a neighborhood where business
houses and professional offices are struggling with
the old residents for possession. A reporter of Tun
RepvusBuican, anxious to discover whether Mrs. Lock-
wood was fully nerved to endure the inevitable flood
of scandal and calumny which follows a nomination
for the presidency, called at her residence last even-
ing. He was informed that the candidate had gone,
in a auiet way, without pomp or especial ceremony,
to call upon friends on Capitol hill.
Mrs. Lockwood was found this morning by a Star
reporter seated in her office, with eHents about her
and showing no signs that the presidential lightning
had struck her.’ After receiving the congratulation
of her visitor, "gg: which a candidate for
President should exhibft, she remarked that she had
no idea of this nomination until the letter arrived
from Marietta Li. Stow, the presideut of the associa-
tion, and editor of Women’s Herald of Industry,
anugunced that fact.
You have not been electioneering for the nomina-
Baxva A. Lockwoop. *
was
An Acr or Fouuy.-—If it is true that Mrs. Belva |
A. Lockwood, the well-known Washington lawyer,
has been tendered and has accepted the nomination
for President of the United States through the Wom-
an’s Rights party of California, the action will be re-
gr etted by all advocates of equal rights wherever
found. It can only result in making her and her sup-
porters ridiculous. As candidate of a disfranchised
party, she will serve us an ilnstration for the argu-
ments of those who oppose the enfranchisement of
women on the ground that they seek the ballot as the
means to gratify personal ambition for political dis-
tinction.— Vastra, in New Nortiuweest, Sept. 11-84.
Mrs. Locxwoop is no dog in the manger. She
has no husband or sons to hedge her about. She is
emancipated from the ghoul, Public Opinion. She
and her standard bearer cBinbed Capitol Hill togeth-
er and faced the bearded Hons tn their marble strong-
hold. After suen daring will they be afraid to seale
the mountain (Is ita mounlen? Tt riay he ouly a
niolehill) top of Prejndiee and unfurl the banner of
the rrice, ip fall view of the remonstrants beneath.
“Ridicule!” As tho every innovation, and innova-
tor, since Adam was in swaddling clothes, hadut
been “ridiculed.” Perhaps if Mrs. Duniway had been
‘on then?” asked the reporter.
Mrs. Lockwood laughed merrily at this supposi-
ion, and assured the reporter that she had not.
“Will this nomination receive the support of the
women suffragists?” continued the reporter.
“Certainly not,” was the emphatic reply. “You
must remember that the women are divided up into
as many factions and parties as the men. There is
the Women’s Christian Temperance union, Under
the leadership of Miss Frances WillarJ; there are the
suffragists, headed by Mrs. Stantou and Miss Antho-
ny, and there is the American party, controlled by
Mrs. Livermore and Mrs. Blackwell. Now, the po-
litical situation is just this: Miss Willard united the
temperance women with the prohibition party at
Pittsburg, and had a plank inserted to catch the suf-
fragists; but the latter, finding that they were going
to play second fiddle to the temperanc @ people, ¢ eame
out for Blaine and Logan. The American party lave
also endorsed the repubbean candidates. Now
thoneht that women who believed in women’s rights
and temperance ought not to hang on to the skirts
of the republican party any longer, and | expressed
these sentiments in a letter wluich was published re-
cently in several of the papers for women. This nom-
ination is the result of the expression of those
sontiments.” ‘Phe Eqnal-Rights party believes in the
equality of women with men in all things. If is a
“nominated” by a party instead of py an individual
she would have “accepted.”
Woman-Suffrage party but with a wider scope.—
Evening Star, Washington, D. C., Sept. 4-84.
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