The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-06

other three wives live in friendlv 49,.
munion, and not one has the least Io--,
claim TO the name she bears Every nol%,-
amous husband had the right to cboos-
one woman for his legal wife when Az
law against polygamy was enforced pl DUG
ing very gallant, Mr.. Cannon refused ~
make choice. To choose was foo ~ 70
10 expect OF him, since he had lust talxer
two sisters to himself with one swine s'''H
Martha Hughes Cannon is doctor -
profession, and has an excellent nraot,aHs
she is described as being a small won,o0
between 80 and So, with a mass Of b 1,,soI'
hair plentifully sprinkled with gray. br,m
liant hazel eyes, ever on the alert: a cian-
skin' and very small feet and hands SSp
mas clear voice a fine flow of words and
IS not conceited. She is well groomed 80
always wears good clothes of an inc v'-u
spicuous kind She has two Children
girl of II and a boy of 7.
Mrs. Cannon is a democrat: her husbau,
is a republican. She got into poIitics ~
this way: In 1895 the democratic Uor,iI M
or Utah wanted suffrage. They formad
Woman's democratic campaign cluh ga
started IN to raise funds for the cam.
paign. The supreme court decided against
them, and out went the suffrage clans
This didn't phaze the women's clubs Tbe.
worked right on, and this year thew o.,
the Suffrage. Mrs. Cannon made fort
speeches, and when her party decided tbst
they ought to have a woman In the Sans
ate committee asked her if she wonIa
run. She said YES" and went to tba
nominating convention as a delegate Sho
was duly nominated, and finally. after
much hard campaign work, was elected
She didn't ask man or a woman to vota
for her, and she didn't bother herself
about kissing unattractive babies. She
studied all the questions of the camnaign
and made a lot of speeches. staying right
with her party and speaking for that. On
election day she went early to the polIe
voted, and then attended to her patients
The senator-elect announces that She
will take special interest in all SANITARY
bills and in all bills pertaining to educa.
tional matters. She is a strong believer
in woman suffrage, and says that it win
help women and purify politics.
Women are better than men," she ia
wont to remark. Slaves are always bet.
ter than their masters. A slave learns
obedience, self-control, and unselflshness.
That's why women will do the world Of
politics good. They have been slaves 50
long. They will teach some of the slay.
ish virtues"
This fourth wife Of man doesn't seem
to realize that most women would look On
her as a slave, notwithstanding her recent
political victory. But it is natural that she
should be Mormon. Her father and moth
er were Mormons, and she believes in the
religion just as a child brought up in the
Methodist or Baptist faith believes in it,
She thinks plural wife is not half as
much of slave as a single wife, for il a
husband has four wives each one has three
weeks of freedom every month in the year.
Plural wives, she says, looks upon mar
rage as a sacred duty, and not as a means
of gratifying vanity. Consequently, polyg-
amy is freer from jealousy and unhapp-
ness than monogamy.
Mrs. Cannon stands with her party on
the saloon question, but it was a visit TO
Europe that strengthened her views
Il don't believe any one who has lived in
Europe much can scare up such a terrif-
ically strong hatred of the demon rum Be-
sides, prohibition doesn't prohibit" she
often asserts.
When the anti-polygamy law went into
effect, Mrs Cannon took her children and
went along with a great many other plural
wives across the water to wait for things
to blow over. She claims that the women
of Utah were better off in a state Of po-
lygamy than they are now Sixty per cent
of the voters of Utah are women. and they
control the state. They are intelligent wo-
men, too, and know just what suffrage
means to them and the community.
Some one asked Mrs. Cannon what she
meant to do with her children while she
was attending to her senatorial duties She
promptly replied, the same thing that she
does with them while practicing medicine.
Her opinion is that the women who stay
at home all the time make the most IN
pleasant homes, while those who think
about sonnet thing besides cook stoves, wash
tubs, and baby fiannels make the best
mothers.
Mrs. Cannon is very emphatic In her
views of the relation of women to puohc
Office She doesn't want her sex to run
for unseemly offices, and she thinks the
gubernatorial chair too mannish altogether
for a woman to occupy. She hates man
nish man as well as a mannish woman
and by mannishness she means not an ~,
herent quality but something assumed, AN
of her best men acquaintance are ladylike'
she says, and all of her woman friends gem
tlemanly. Brigham Young once sad
1.-THE day shall come when men ana Wo-
men shall walk together side by side IN INC
temple" -i.o
The first woman senator in AmeI ,
thinks that day is dawning now, that ere
tricity is doing away with domestic druus
cry. that women are growing wise, anu
that men are growing gentle. IN snGrg
she believes that the millennium Is coiiiiH9
sooner than most people hope.