The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1896-11-17
GENTLEMEN
Keep Cool, Conditions are Chang
ing-Observe the Signs of
the Times.
Woman is a Mighty Factor in the
Worlds Progress -Long Held
in Silence.
Her Rights Are Being Recognized
and Her Merit Appre-
ciated.

We, in Kentucky, have so long
been accustomed to women keeping
silent that we may be surprised tC
learn that women have merited and
received recognition in other public
assemblages than those religious.
In Utah a woman has been elected
to the State Senate. just think of il
Mr.. Cannon is Republican. Mr.,
Cannon, his wife, is Democrat. He
was candidate for the Senate; SO
was she. Result: Mrs Cannon will
sit as a member of that august assem-
| bly,.
Some man may say: ayes, that
has occurred in Utah; that's where
Mormans haze ruled; what else
could you expect from Utah ?"
A special from Denver, Col, says
"Thlee women will serve as Repre-
scntatives from Arapahoe county,
They are Mrs. Olive G. Butler, Mrs
Evangeline Heartz and Mrs. M. A. b
Conine."
We give below brief sketches Ct
the e women:
"Mra. Butler was born in the
Charlestown district of Boston, Mass.
under the shadow Bunker Hill Monu-
ment. In 1866 she was marie t.
Simpson d. Butler, of Lynn, and they
removed to Denver in 1890. Mrs.
Butler is a great worker in the Wom-
ans Relief Corps, and is post Depart
ment Secretary for Colorado and
Wyoming.
MRS. Evangeline Hearth is daugh-
ter Of Charles Clay, OF Dundas, Prince
f wards Island. During an agita-
ton which arose last year against a
proposed eX ensive purchase of real
estate for park purposes, Mrs. Hearlz
came into public rotice as an active
worker with other women against the
ordinance, which was finally defeated.
The club women of Denver have
secured as their representative Mrs.
Martha A. b. CONNIE. Mrs. Conine
is tn. wife of John M. CONNIE, lum-
Der dealer. She is now serving her
second term ae President of the North
side Womsn's Club"
Social and polite reforms some
times come as ''landslides," but usual
ly many years of education are neces-
sary to change customs of long stand
ing. Here in Kentucky we are rather
slow in yielding to such innovations
as permit women to hold office and
vote, and sway the people with her
Oratory In political discussion. OF
course there are men-gOod men, very
wise men-who will object to women
being candidates. AT the risk of be-
ing called "cranks" we wish to state
that we are heartily in favor of wo-
men being candidates for--matrimony.
We have advocated this for--y ears,
and hope they will be elected. Not
only do we advocate such candidacv,
but we must confess our weakness 90
when we say that so far as is consist
ent with the Divine will we believe
that woman's voice ought to be heard
and mighty influence felt, in advocat-
ing and executing those measures
which make for righteousness and
justice, purity or peace, whether 1t
pertains to taxation, representation
on school boards, in legislative halls
or to preserving the purity and happi-
ness of their homes against the en-
croachment and corrupting influence
of vices iegalized or carried on by
common consent.
sHonor to woman, to her it is given
To garnish the earth with the roses Of heaven.
She tends on each altar that's followed to feeling
And keeps ever burning the fire"