Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-11-07

| Atty women could not have had MI
husbands or brothers or cousins
uncles whom they were thus. solicitousl.
| anxious to see elected.
| This thing of women suffrage is fem
nine conundrum. II / have ever hear
OF or read Of one single law that femal
suffragists urge forward Tor woman
benefit BY the franchise you may run m
next year for States nangman.
1t Is all for the triumph or political am
bition OF some candidate. But why?
would like to know, my fair politicians
how many men do you think would thu
immediate themselves upon the altar o
your rights or wrongs?
Now, / believe there are laws tina
might be adjusted to help women, blu
they don't run In a political groove at all
and female suffrage will not better them
Then why not let the men fight out theil
own battles.
HOW THEY DO IN COLORADO.
! I had a friend who was In Colorado
last year with an invalid brother at the
time of the presidential election She
| Is a very intelligent woman, and she de-
termined, while there, TO see how the
women voted. SO she went down to the
| polls early, with a relative. She said
| that most of the women came In with
| gentlemen-a wife with her husband, q
| mother with her son-and that every
| mothers daughter among them asked
something about the vote before they
perintendent. More than that, the very
first ballot cast was by a mulatto wo-
man. who jostIed rudely ahead OF a
poor workihgman and his middle-aged
wife. 1 forget how many women she
said were running for offlce-some thirty
odd-and that she saw a woman candi-
date for the Legislature who hustled
around for votes in n way that made my
friends head swim-to say nothing OF an
aching heart-and yet / seem TO see
through that woman's purpose. She
evidently knew what she was there for,
and all about it.
There was no disorder, and the women
were treated with every courtesY-mar-
ried women and single women, old wo-
men and young women, women who could
not speak English, and women with
babies, women who lead society and wo-
men whom they called by the given
names-all sorts and conditions Of wo-
men standing In line, talking politics and
voting.
Out of fifteen women eleven declared
that female suffrage was a failure. One
very rich leader of the -four hundred
declared that she voted as her husband
did, and had her servants do the same.
She saw to 1t that they did not scratch"
If that Is not the old corporation slavery
in pettieoats, do not know what free
dom u.s. II woman votes the way her
husband does and coaches her laborers
to do the same. where, except in numbers,
Is the difference In results?
Honestly, 1 would take Off my hat to
the woman who struggled single-handed, |
or at the polls for the real uplifting OF
woman to a plane of civil equality with |
men, in property rights, labor rights, |
rights as guardians ETC., and not 60 much /
for the equality as TO be recognized as
equals by the vast majority of men, out
side of the cultured, the educated, the
Christian, the chivalrous men, who will
in no other way really recognize woman's
true value. 1 do not know the remedy.
1 have only seen the evil. But political
equality would only open the sluice-
gates Of family jealousies.
So you will see, my dear sisters what
you have before you about two thirds
Of the women in the United States and
England to set straight, and probably
about seven eighths in the balance Of the
world.
Now, political women, and Of northern
may be differently constituted.
DcTldDS MIS-. 1illlOH DulHc rhO |
charge OF the woman's late-very late
in New York had made all
Ter winter preserves Iellies, jams, and
ickles, and had sorted and patch
ID, and darned up the fall
lannels for Mr.. Burns and the chill
ren, and thus found sufficient time to .
Iobnob with the men in politics.
Commend me to southern lazness IL
Is dear women never reach that indus
rial point.
NOTES.
Mrs. Alice Dudley, Of Charlottesville,
Tho has been visiting her brother, Mr..
,obert Willis, returned home yesterday.
A large and most enjoyable old-fash-
med "corn-shucking'' was given at Mr..
ohm Miller's Wednesday night. Plenty
( good cheer and mirth abounded.
de man he git dc white ear.
De lady g.t de red; \
Sooner a young man court de gal
Sooner he'll be we'd" s
These old-time customs are better than b
ew-time politics. \
Miss Minnie Carlisle, of Washington, Is
sitting her cousin near Irwin Poplars."
Miss Monte Slower, Of Staunton. and -
ISIS Lena Burks, of Clifton. are in the
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