Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-10-18
woMANs WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
VIII the Women Of Denver Turn and
Rend Their Friends?


Rend Their Friends?
BY heredity, tradition and education
l belong to one of the old political par
ties-at least so far as a disfranchised
woman caa belong to anything And
yet If | lived in Colorado this fall I
should feel. myself bound in common
gratitude and decency to vote the Popu-
list ticket. 1t must never be forgotten
so long as woman is woman that it was
the Populist states and party that en-
franchised her. For years women had
been hanging around the old parties,
begging and pleading, even with tears
in their eyes, for platform plank favor
ing woman suffrage The Republicans
would not touch the thing with 40 foot
pole: neither would the Democrats.
Meantime tho brave Populists openly
put suffrage planks into their platforms,
openly worked for and with the women,
and as soon as they came on top in Col
orado enfranchised them 1t was under
POpulist administration that the women
got suffrage in Colorado and under Gov
ernor Waite administration. His hand
the right to vote. But now they say
some Of the noble families Of the Den
yer aristocracy are disgruntled because
of Governor Waite and the Populists.
Governor Waite had the temerity to ap-
point mechanic-forsooth a mechanic
chief of police. The Populists have,
moreover, been guilty of a yet more
atrocious crime. They have put cigar
maker up as candidate for lieutenant
governor. How it curdles the blood to
think of it, especially when there are SO
many white handed politicians lying
around out of jobl For this reason the
Republicans who would not touch wom-
an suffrage with 40 foot pole now
come honeying around the women vot-
ers i'll Denver and beg them to save"
the state. They have formed what is
called the Redemption guard, which
sounds ridiculously like the Salvation
Army, and use all their sweet masculine
wiles to capture the woman vote. Will
the woman voter of Colorado turn and
rend the mother that gave her exist
ence? That is what l should like to
know. 1t is the plain duty of women
now to stand by the party that gives
them their rights. Other issues can be
settled afterward Other issues are of
minor Importance to woman. If lived
in Colorado. i should vote for Governor
Waite even if he eats with his knife.
He does not, though.
sometimes think girls are naturally
affected
Current Topics is the name Of
neat literary and home magazine pub
lished in New Orleans by Mrs. P. W.
Blount A late number contains very
able paper i'll favor of woman suffrage
written by Martha Ward Gleason. 1t is
one of the fairest signs Of the time that
southern women are becoming interest
ed in this great question.
Hear what Susan B. Anthony says
about husband supporting" his wife:
II think a woman should be ashamed
to have her husband support her"
Once since the beginning of the hard
times the proprietors Of Pittsburg dry
goods store decided that they would re-
duce the wages OF the women clerks SO
as to raise those of the married men,
But when they looked into the matter
these gentlemen with old fashioned ideas
found the women supporting more peo-
pie out of their wages than the married
men were Just So Investigations of
this kind always show that there is
scarcely one woman wage Garner today
who does not have others than herself
to maintain. Not seldom it is an invalid
husband; again it is a great, hulking,
lazy son or a cross grained old father,
who thinks she never does enough for
him.
Women must stand together and help
one another. Let them band together
against the world.
The Creator put boys and girls to-
gether i'll the family, and they should be
put together in the school.
A woman showed her husband how to
invent the method of weaving together
the heels and toes of stockings, thus en-
abling him to get patent for making
seamless hose.
One year ago this October Douschka
Pickens died i'll South Carolina. She
was the daughter of Governor Francis
Pickens She it was who defeated negro
Republican rule in South Carolina. She
put herself at the head of band of
1900 men in red shirts and rode out
from Edgefield shortly before election
day. From town to town she and the
red shirts rode, she dressed in scarlet,
too, and wearing waving scarlet
plume. She made rousing speeches ev-
erywhere till the whole state was on
fire. By the hundred she made voters
for Wade Hampton. and when the day
game he was elected governor. Ten
thousand people attended her funeral.
My mother writes me that she has
found out a woman can manage farm
and do it in first class order. Under the
superintendence of woman her own
farm is in better condition today than
it ever was before during all the years
when succession Of men had their
respective whacks at it.
When a high public officials wife
has to watch him like hawk to keep
him from going OH awful sprees and
disgracing himself and losing his office,
and when her life has been one long tor
ture for fear he would break out in spite
of her, You may set it down that man
will be against women every time.
In the Newark IN. J.) district Jo-
seph r. Buchanan is the Populist can
didate for congy II he is elected,
he will at once go up head in the ma
tional house as both an orator and a
reasoner. And if his election depended
on women's votes he would be safe
enough. The convention that nominated
him passed resolution indorsing wom-
an suffrage. He himself has been the
lifelong friend of our sex This is the
kind Of men women should use all their
influence to bring into public life.
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER.
What She Liked.
Young Mr.. Hopkins went to the
Worlds fair at Chicago, and while
there met charming American young
lady who proyed tO he his fate After