The morning call., 1895-02-06

by Mrs. Paulson of the Century Club that
bill had been introduced in the Legisla-
lure by which it IS proposed to raise the
age of consent on the part of females from
"a TO is years, and that the author Of the
bill was afraid it would not become law
nnless it had the support of the league and
Of other organizations.
4 member asked if women did not help
their own sex in that which is good who
would?
Mrs. Emily Pitts-Stevens said that in
nearly two-thirds of the States of the Union
the age Of consent is greater than in this
5tate-in very few it was below 16 The
passage of such law would, she said, be
credit to the State and the Legislature.
There is one reason why the gentleman
who introduced the bill, said the secre-
tary, sis afraid that he may not meet with
success, and that is that the previous Leg
stature raised the age from 10 to A.
It was decided that Mrs. Vidaver invite
Mrs. Paulson to address the league on this
subject at its next meeting.
DR.. Gerhicke reported that the member
ship roll has over 100 names.
Mrs. Nellie Holbrook-B linn, the treas
urer, it was announced. is in Sacramento,
where she will watch what will be done to-
day on the proposition to grant to the
women of California the right to vote.
Many of those present expressed the opin-
ion that the outcome of the discussion in
the legislative hall would be victory for
the California Woman's Suffrage Associa-
ton, of which the league is a part.
A resolution was adopted indorsing the
To- 70 int q lott
mittee to make an investigation of cor
ruption in all parts of the State.
The members were gratifed because of
the receipt of an Eastern journal contain
ing an article by Hon. James S. Clarkson,
who was Assistant Postmaster-G General
under President Harrison, first president
of the National Republican League of the
United States and for many years editor of
the Iowa Register, in which the writer
gave his personal observation of woman
suffrage in Denver, Colo, on election day.
In that article Mr.. Clarkson says:
Having seen them in September in the activi-
ties of a very exciting political campaign, and
in which at least so per cent of all good and
intelligent and refined women of this city and
State were taking part not merely passiyely,
but actively, am left to the frank and manly
as 10 woman suffrage on my part is gone; and
that the highest-minded man, however
jealous and sheltering he may be of his wife,
mother or daughter, as against contact with
any other rude touch of the world, could not
have found cause for objection at any of these
polls Tuesday-nor so far as has been reported,
at any polls in Colorado Instead of rough or
vicious men, or even drunken men, treating
women with disrespect, the presence of single
good woman at the polls seemed to make the
whole crowd of men as respectful and quiet as
at the theater or church.
Mr.. Clarkson pays high compliment to
the men OF Colorado for their courteous
treatment of the women voters and, prais-
ing the women for giving new energy to
the wavering columns of Republicanism
and good government in the State, he de-
scribes a scene at the polls in the following
language:
The polls opened at O'Clock By $50
twenty women and fourteen men were in the
line waiting for the first chance to vote. All
the time other voters kept rapidly coming,
nearly every man coming with his wife, and
the most of the men with two or more women,
often the wife and daughter, frequently wife,
daughter and mother.
On Capitol Hill, the home of the thriftier
classes of people, the families went in groups
precisely as they go to church or theater, and
the women seemed as much at ease in this as
in other places.
Contrary to the popular theory OF those who
have always Sneered at what they have called
petticoat politics, the good women have voted
in much larger proportion than the bad.
Practically all the good women have voted,
while less than 10 per cent of the others voted
or even desired to do so. In one precinct $50