favorite mottoes, "Truth for Authority, and not Authority for
Truth"; and weekly, for six years, it has gone to a constantly
increasing circle of readers, and contributed its share to
whatever strength and influence the cause has gained in this
portion of the State. In the summer of 1880, G. W. Anderson
announced himself a candidate for the legislature. He had just
before made himself especially obnoxious by shockingly indecent
remarks about the ladies who had participated in the exercises of
the Fourth of July celebration. At a meeting of the suffrage
society, held August 6, the following resolution, suggested by
Mrs. S. E. Lutes, were unanimously adopted:

WHEREAS, We, as responsible members of society, and
guardians of the purity of our families and community, are
actuated by a sense of duty and our accountability to God
for the faithful performance of it; and

WHEREAS, George W. Anderson, editor and proprietor of the
Lincoln _Register_, during his few months' residence in our
county has, by constant calumny and scurrility, both verbal
and through the columns of his paper, sought to injure the
reputation of the honorable women who compose the Lincoln
suffrage and temperance associations, and of all women
everywhere who sympathize with the aims and purposes which
these societies represent; and

WHEREAS, His utterances through the columns of the Lincoln
_Register_ are often unfit to be read by any child, or aloud
in any family, because of their indecency, we are
unanimously of the opinion that his course is calculated to
defeat the aims and purposes of Christianity, temperance and
morality; therefore

_Resolved_, That whenever George W. Anderson aspires to any
position of honor, trust or emolument in the gift of the
voters of Lincoln county, we will use all honorable means in
our power to defeat him; and we further urge upon every
woman who has the welfare of our county at heart, the duty
and necessity of cooeperating with us to accomplish this end.

The above preamble and resolution appeared in the woman's column
of the Lincoln _Beacon_ the following week, and 250 copies were
printed in the form of hand-bills a