The record-union., 1895-12-07
MISS COUSINS WAS DISAPPOINTED.
How Woman Suffrage Purified Colo
RADIO Politics.
She is Speaking for Silver. Believing
the Financial Question the Great
One of the Day.

Miss Phebe Cousins, who has for
number of years been well known as
speaker in favor of woman suffrage,
and who spoke here for it during the
last session of the Legislature, is in the
city
At present, however, she is not speak
ing in advocacy of her former favorite
theme, but is earnestly lecturing
throughout the State for the National
Silver League. She has addressed large
audiences in the coast counties and in
different portions of the State, but is at
present suffering from a severe attack
of rheumatism, which has for the pres
ent driven her from the field.
In conversation with representative
OF the Record Union last night she
showed herself an ardent and well-in-
formed advocate of the cause of BIZ
metallism, and expressed her regret at
the disability that at present debars her
from active work, at the same time ex-
pressing the hope that she might before
long address the people of Sacramento
upon the subject, as she considers it at
present the greatest issue of the day.
The conversation drifting upon the
cause in which she had been so long en-
gagged, she said: Il suppose my sisters
will think / have deserted them, but L
must confess that. while L still consider
the contest for woman suffrage to be
one of justice and equity to every Amer
lean woman who can read and write,
and especially to those who pay taxes, l
must confess to a distinct disappoint-
ment in the recent election in Colorado.
i had, in common with other Suffrag-
lists, expected that the women, when
they voted, would carry morality into
politics, and elevate and purify them. l
did not, however, find my anticipations
realized. 1t had been decided that Gov
ernor Waite must be beaten at any cost,
and the Republican women We're pressed
into service to use their utmost efforts
for his defeat.
THE hotel was so covered with flags
and decorations that it was hard to
see the original material. Enough
money was spent to have fed the poor
Of the State for some time. Instead
however, Of raising the morals of poll
ties, men who were well known to be
immoral were welcomed and courted
One prominent man who had only a
short time before emerged from a no.
torious domestic scandal, was feasted
and feted. The gamblers and saloon
men wheeled into line and Governor
Waite, who had been most instru-
mental in giving the franchise to the
women of Colorado, was defeated by
them.
LAS soon as he was out of office the
gambling houses, which he had kept
closed, reopened without fear, and al
though some were arrested and fined,
their fines were remitted."
What do you think of the result of
the recent election in Massachusetts,
in which woman suffrage was defeated
although the women of that State are
il the majority and voted?" was
asked.
There was feature in that election
which / have not seen referred to, y
was the reply The population of
New England is much changed. Form
erly the factories were filled with
American girls, but it is so no longer
Thousands of French Canadian
women have come over and have
driven out the Americans and usurped
their places. 1t was not to be supposed
that the husbands and fathers of these
women would allow them TO vote for
women suffrage, when they themselves
were opposed to it,
rs not that very fact and expert
ence an argument against women vot-
irg?" asked the reporter. You
complain that the foreigner has
q vote while you do not. Did you ever
stop to consider that when women vote
the foreigners wife and daughters will
also vote, and that his daughters gem
orally Outnumber those of American
families three to one2 If he can make
them vote as he wishes, will we not
have added a still greater mass of ig-
norance and corruption to what we al
ready have?"
Il do not know but that is true" was
was the slow reply. Politics is full of
corruption and / am afraid that women
l.. III. 70, hot Tor
q lady friend of mine was working in
q recent campaign an Italian came to
her with a 50 bill in hi hand and said,
How mucha you pay for voter
She Indignantly told him that she
was not buying votes Well, said he, /
getta de five dolla to vota for other
side: I vota for your side for Ska.
She declined, however, to buy him.
Very well, if the Italians wife and
one or two daughters had been voters,
would he not have taken care that they
each got their five or six dollars to add
to his purse?" was asked.
Il am afraid he would, was the re-
ply Il am almost convinced that
women viii not obtain suffrage in this
State ] think so because in every
State where there has been a cam
paign made in favor of woman uffrage
If has been defeated, and I am afraid it
will always be. If ii is gaied it must be
by quiet. persistent work. 1t was incor-
pOrated into the Utah Constitution, and
only was carried because the people
could not vote against il without vot-
ing against the Constitution. 1t was
defeated in New York"
Miss Cousins win remain in the city
a few days in hopes of gaining relief
from her ailment.
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