Cleveland Morning Leader

Men of both Sexes in Politics,

Mrs. E. Cady Stanton prints a note to the Central Fremont Club of New York city, explaining her reason for attaching her name to their call for a convention of the "radical men of the nation."

She likes the call because it demands negro suffrage, "without which emancipation is a mockery," and because this principle lifts politics into the sphere of morals and religion and makes it the duty of all true men and women to go in and help build up the new nation.

But what most pleases Mrs. Stanton is that she feels able to take it for granted that the call to "radical men" uses the word "men" in its largest sense. That is to say Mrs. Stanton understands that the radicals invite men of both sexes-or, not to make an invidious distinction-women of both sexes-to their nominating convention.

Therefore did she sign their call, as a radical man, rising above all such material and trivial distinctions as those of gender and crinoline.

We admire Mrs. Stanton's spunk. She is a gentleman of genius: she is a lady of parts; she has honorably achieved wide influence among the gentler sex of both genders.

It is highly proper that she should not only sign a Presidential call, but go into the convention as a delegate, and take others of her female brethren with her.

Perhaps we are getting the pronouns a little mixed; what we mean to say that this is a free country, and is going to be freer, and that every man and woman of either sex has a perfect right to speak her mind and follow the lead of his own progressive ideas, and we hope she will do it.-Springfield Republican.