A Change In Policy

Ihe newspaper circular published at Washington under the auspices of the National Eepublican Execctive Committee, of which Senator Chandler, of this State, is Chairman, and J. M. Edmunds, also of this State, but now Postmaster at Washington, is Secretary.has come out in a six-column article takiiig strongground against woman suftrage. Two years ago, when this question of woman suffrage did not at all enter into the can vasa in any State, this same committee, with the same chairman and Secretary, and this same publication, professed great interest in the cause of teníale suftrage. The Eepublican National Convention, believing that something might be made by throwing a sop to the feinale suffrage advocates, adopted a resolution which, though it meant nothing and was notintended to mean anythiug in particular, afforded much satisfaction to Sasan B. Anthony and her co-laborers in the sufrage cause. The National Executive Committee went so far as to pay the expenses of Mrs. Anthony in her electioneering tour in New York State, as that lady devoted a great portion of her speeches to attempting to demónstrate that the Eepublican party was more favorable to woman suffrage than the opposition, and therefore should be sustained by the woman suffragists. This year in this State, the voters are to decide whether or notthey willextend the elective franchise to to The woman suffrage movement does not seem to be popular, and the National Execuiive Committee are therefore now endeavoring to induce the voters to believe that the Republican party will in no way further it. The belief in Washington is that the anti-suffrage article in the committee's circular was written expressly For circulation in Michiean. and it