The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-03-03
WANTS TO GO TO CONGRESS
AIRS. Kicker OF New Hampshire Is IN
Dead Earnest.


Dead Earnest
Mrs. Marilla M. Kicker. a well-known
lawyer of Dover, N. H., has announced
her determination to run for Congress
as successor to Congressman Cyrus A..
Sulloway. of Manchester. Mrs. Kicker
is in deadly earnest. in spite Of the fact
mat some of her male friends havetried
4 to persuade her that the matter can
be regarded as little more than a joke.
She declares that she has a coDStitu-
tional right to become Congressman,
or rather a Congresswoman, and looks
forward confidently to the time when
women will have an equal half of the
seats in the Senate and House of Rep
resentatiyes.
Mrs Kicker is a Republican in poli-
E.ics and a firm believer in the ultimate
triumph of the cause of woman suf
TRACE When asked to give her views
on the subject of women as members of
Congress. and particularly regarding
] her own chances Of success, Mrs. Rick
/ er replied as follows;
For twenty years | have been nurs-
4 ing the secret hope that some day /
shall be elected to Congress or to the
There is no constitutional or statute
Law to prevent / notice that Emma
Hart was appointed acting consular
agent at Edmundston, N. b.. by the
State Department for two weeks DUR
ing the absence of the regular incum~
lpent of the Office. If woman may be
Appointed temporarily in the diplomats
ic service. she CERTAIN ly can be appoints
led permanently. This temporary APP
Attantment was made since | asked to
4 be appointed envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to the United
States of Columbia showing that all
our officials want is to have the subject
brought up and talked over and written
lup.
Il was the first man in the coun-
/ Try who tried to vote 1t will be TWEEN
ty-eight years next March since first
attempted to cast ballot Now wo-
men have full suffrage in four States
(Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Idaho).
municipal suffrage in Kansas, and
school suffrage in twenty-six States,
including New Hampshire
why shouldn't women be Senators.
Members of Congress and Governors2
/ 1t is a question of brain. and Fortunate
lly there is no sex in brain, and it is
time to do away with the silly notion
that there is. Every student of Eng
lish law knows that statutes imposing
penalties are to be strictly construed
so as to exclude everybody and every
thing not within their letter. Statutes
creating privileges. comforting benefits.
are to be literally construed so as to
include every person within the reach
of their spirit think we have reach
ed a period when women are to have
the benefit of both these rules to cor
relate each other.
II don't want the impression to gain
ground that / am doing this for a joke.
1 never was more serious in my life. |
want to take hand in educating wo-
men to see that they are as much en-
titled to public Office as men, Why
should not women go to Congress?
there is no valid reason why they
should not, and | feel that time now
favors my making direct effort to
that end. Mark this that the time is
not great way off when it will not
be possible for men to prevent women
going as representatives of the people.
ITO show that when 1 take up a
fight | do not lower my colors in a
hurry I have only to point to the fact
that for more than quarter of aeen-
tury / have appeared at the polls and
offered my ballot, only to be refused
the suffrage, but one day rendered,
a ballot for a school committee and It
was accepted. New York Herald.