e since his elevation to the Presidency
has always been favorable to increased rights for women. He has
officially recognized their competency, and has given them many
government positions. Senator Wilson is an old and staunch
advocate of woman suffrage, and his letter in pointed terms
refers to the recognition given woman by his party, and says, "to
her new demands it extends the hand of grateful recognition, and
it commends her demands for additional rights to the calm and
careful consideration of the nation." And, too, thus early in the
campaign, the strongest men of the party, among whom are Forney,
of the Philadelphia _Press_, Gerrit Smith, Bowen, of the New York
_Independent_, and President White, of Cornell University, speak
of this recognition as introducing a new era into politics.

While the old and tried Republican party in its platform and
candidates thus gives woman assurance that her claim to equal
political rights is to be respected, the other party in the field
gives her no promise either in its platform or the letters of its
nominees. The Liberal Republican party is a new party; it has no
record; it has done no work; it is wholly untried; it ignores
women; and by its silence in regard to the equal rights of
one-half of the people--the most important question now in the
political horizon--it proves itself unworthy of its name,
unworthy of woman's confidence, and unworthy of the votes of
truly liberal men. In regard to its candidates, Gratz Brown, once
our friend, has practically denied his record. Horace Greeley,
its chief nominee, has for years been our most bitter opponent.
Both by tongue and pen he has heaped abuse, ridicule, and
misrepresentation upon our leading women, while the whole power
of the _Tribune_ has been used to crush out our great reform. And
now that he is a candidate for election to the highest office in
the country, he still continues his bitter and hostile course
toward one half of its citizens. He presses the iron-heel of his
despotism upon their liberties; and, in answer to our appeals, he
says he "neither desires our help nor believes us capable of
giving any."

What can liberty expect from such a man? What can woman hope from
such a party? Women of the Republic, you can not in self-respect
give