The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-22
WOMAN IN
She Seems to Be Making a Success in
1t Out in Colorado. s
Philadelphia Press.

Philadelphia Press.
The trial now being had of woman suf-
frage in Colorado is, undoubtedly. the most
interesting experiment of the kind yet made
in this country. This is true not only be-
cause the women have been given full suf-
frage rights in that State, but also because
they appear ready and eager to exercise
placed in their way by the male voters.
The latest illustration of the working of
equal suffrage in the Rocky Mountain State
was given last week when a Republican
convention was held in Denver to nominate
candidates for Mayor and other city officers.
primaries. a number of them had been
elected delegates to the convention and they
proceedings.
The Republican city central committee had
given the women all that they asked for in
the way of delegates and they showed by
their action in the convention that they
were apt scholars in politics. They held a
upon the candidates and resolutions they
would support, and they adhered strictly
TO thelr pFearrangea programmes. A woman
women were put ON the committee on reso-
lutions and two on the committee on rules,
order OF business and permanent organiza-
ton. The first set speech made while the
convention was waiting for the committees
to report was by Mrs. NJ. Marble. She
showed by her language that the women
voters, in Colorado at least. will have little
sympathy with mugwumpery. The following
Is an extract. from her speech, as given in
the Denver Republican:
Some of the people said lin the party
II w Co4As wv VI tA4t "a II VIZ lluSl.
but they meant lin the party if we can
run it. out of it if we can't" Some of
the people who were making these state
ments were those who had been honored
by the party for years and who had lived
off it. They had fed off the public purse.
and if the party was really bad these peo-
pie were responsible for it. She did not
want any -mugwumpism in hers She heard
a man say at a woman's meeting that he
was a Republican but he was going to stand
on principle for the future. She thought
this was a slur on the party which adopted
the principle of Lincoln. The nonpartisan-
ship mugwumpery was responsible for the
present sad condition of affairs. The men
she thought were not SO bad after all and
the women would not have TO stoop very
low to drag up the man. The woman had
associated with them all the time, IL not in
politics. and she did not believe they were
so very horrid. "A pure wornanhood would
elevate politics pretty soon.
In the management of the convention
~slAillful as the men. When some of the
practical politicians wanted the conven-
tion TO take a recess the women opposed
the motion. because they feared the in
huence of the lobby and insisted that the
business should go on, ana when they were
apparently outvoted they challenged the
vote. proved a miscount and held the con-
vention down to its work. The next test
was the nominations, and here the women
proved again that they were equal 70 the
occasion. They had the good taste to
choose Thomas S. McMurray. who was
born and educated in Philadelphia. as the
man whom they would support. and he
was nominated as the Republican candi-
date for Mayor. The only time the women
were defeated when they made a separate
contest was in the nomination for city
treasurer. But in other respects they were
highly successful and demonstrated their
ability to cope with the most adroit poll
ticians in the Republican party in Colorado.
This demonstration of the capacity and
Willingness Of women to perform their
<amed by the advocates of woman suffrage.
Two OF the stock against such
a policy have been the claims that women