Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-12-03

ing convention as a delegate. My name |
was offered as a candidate Then I |
went home and congratulated Mr.. Can |
non on his nomination. He ran on the
ticket. / worked pretty
hard. l studied up on all the questions
Of the campaign and l made a lot of
speeches. l did not do any personal
w0rk-talking to people myself about
myself, and why they ought to vote
for me, l mean. | just stayed right
with my party and spoke for that, and
on election day l went to the polls and
voted, then l went and tended to my
patients
I beat Mr.. Cannon by majority of
something like 1000. l heard prom
inent politician say that he wished Mr..
Cannon and l had both been elected
He said he'd like to have seen the
fight He would have been disappoint-
ed. If a woman quarTels over politics
with her husband she'd quarrel with
him over whether he liked biscuit or
raised bread, or any other subject that
came in handy.
My aims? I'm not in for any one
particular reform. l shall take great
interest in all the sanitary bills, of
course, and all bills tending to educa-
tional matters. Women are good ones
for those things We know how to
keep house, and we know how to keep
a city
Am l a strong believer in woman
suffrage? Of course | am. 1t will
help women, and it will purify politics.
Women are better than men. Slaves
are always better than their masters.
A slave learns obedience and self-con-
troll and unselfishness. That's why
woman will do the world of politics
good. They have been slaves so long.
They will teach some of the slavish
virtues. Do l mean polygamy? In
deed [ do not mean polygamy; l be-
lieve in polygamy. My father and my
mother were Mormons, and | am a
Mormon. Of course, the law of the
United States says No and we must
obey, but that does not alter ones be
lief in the right of the thing.
"On the saloon question l stand with
my party. Prohibition does not pro-
hibit, so what earthly use is there mix
ing things up with party which is
always preaching something that it
never practices? l don't believe any
one who has lived in Europe much
can scare up such terrifically strong
hatred of demon rum. Europe? Oh,
yes; | went there when | was under
ground. Oh, l forgot; you're a Gen
tile. When the antipOlygamy law
came into force, we plural wives went,
as we called it, under ground We
blow over. I took my children to
Europe, and then to California Have
| things blown over? To this extent:
They can't put us in Jail now for liv-
ing in polygamy during a certain term
of years.
"Of course, it is all at an end now
but I think-and the women of Utah
think with me-that we were better off
in the state of polygamy. Sky per
cent of the voters of this state are
women.
What all I going to do with my
! children while | am making laws for
the state? The same thing | have
| done with them when | have been
practicing medicine They have been
I left to themselves a good deal, and |
must say they compare very favorabIy
with children who need governess
and q nurse and a mamma to look after
! them every minute. Home? Now,
know that women who stay at home
all the time have the most unpleasant
homes there are. You give me a wo
man who thinks about something be
sides cook stoves and wasntubs ant
baby fiannels, and I'll show you nine
times out of ten a successful home
maker and a successful mother.
who is that California woman who
writes such smart things about the
worship of the holy stove? I'd like tC
know her. She knows this woman
question right. Motherhood is a great
thing, a glorious thing, and it ought t.
| be a successful thing. 1t will be when
it is regulated. Some day there viii
be law limiting people to a certain
number of children, and then the
mothers of the land can live as they
ought to live-free, happy, healthy
| lives. That's one thing about us Nor
mons. You know we never did let a
man marry till he showed conclusively
| that he could take good care of hi:
wife and family. We never raise pau
pers.