The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-07
ALTERNATE FROM UTAH.
A Woman May Have n Seat in Re-
publican National Convention.

Milwaukee Sentinel.
Mrs. w. III. Jones. of Salt Lake City,
Utah. who will probably be the only woman
who will occupy a seat upon the floor of
the national Republican convention In Phil
hands of a state convention, is in the city,
a guest at the Hotel Blatz. Mrs. Jones
comes to Milwaukee as the regularly
accredited delegate of the Women's Club
of Salt Lake City, an organization devoted
TO the cultivation of a taste for literature.
She is also president of the women's Re-
publican Club of Salt Lake City. She Is an
alternate delegate from Utah to the ma
tional Republican convention.
A little above the average height. straight
and willowy. Mrs. Jones would make IN
excellent model for an allegorical repre-
sentation of Columbia. With bright, in
telligent face. dignified and calm under ell
circumstances. she is a women of affairs
in every sense of the word.
II am going to Philadelphia for the pur-
pose of assisting in the nomination of Pres
ident Mckinley for a second term" said
Mrs. Jones to the Sentinel representative
last evening. 81 have the regular creden-
tails to entitle me to a seat on the floor
of the convention, and far as / can
learn / shall be the only woman in the
country who will be accorded this privi-
lege. which is one of which / feel very
proud. Possibly may. have an opportuni-
~ to cast a vote in the convention for
President Mckinley. If one of the district
delegates should fail to go. and 1 shall OBJ
tain his seat as regular delegate. l shall
surely vote for the Ohio man at the election
next November. You see, the women of
Utah were accorded the right to vote when
the Territory was admitted into the Union.
and while we did not want the privilege at
the start, now that we are in the political
game we enjoy IL very much. / can say for
myself that / was opposed to woman's suf-
frage but when the privilege of voting was
given us We were forced to exercise 1t for
l,self-protection.
"You would naturally expect that II
would be the uncultured class that would
avail themselves of the privilege of the
ballot, and that the society women would
not care to go to the polls and vote Let
me tell you that the contrary has been
the case out in Utah. The educated and
the society women are the ones that ex-
ercised the right OF suffrage at the start,
and now they are all in line.
LAS president of the Women's Repub-
lican Club. IL has been my duty TO keep a
watch over affairs of the party. and / can
tell you that we have most thorough or
ganization. There are fffty-two voting pre-
cincts in Salt Lake City. and don't believe
that in any single precinct in the city you
can find six women that did not go to the
polls and vote at the last election.
What do I think OF the action OF Con-
gress in refusing TO seat Mr.. Roberts? I
would rather not discuss that question. He
| is a Mormon and | am a Methodist. We do
not allow religion TO enter into political az
fairs out there. and when I came away
from Utah i left my religion behind me so
far as IL has any bearing upon matters po-
liticak
I'VE do not ask for political offices. but
| what we do ask is that il there is clerk
ship or any position that can be filled by
a widow or a young girl who has to make
| her own way in the world the place be
| given TO her.
Imperialism and expansion. did you say?
| l do not believe in either OF them when
| they are inspired by greed. but in the case
| OF the Philippines. what other course is
| there left but TO take them In under the
| protection of the American flag. Can we
| withdraw troops from those islands and
allow the Spaniards to retake them, or.
| what is even worse permit those savage
tribes TO make war upon each other. There
| is no other honorable course left TO the
| United States but TO govern those islands
until they are able to govern themselves
and there is no knowing when that time
| will come.
Il wish to say this: II is the illiterate
| women, If any. that stay away from the
| polls on election day. We have had our
! headquarters under the same roof with the
| headquarters of the Mems Republican
clubs, but not in the same room, and dur
| ing the two years that l have been presi-
| dent OF the Womens Republican Club
| there has rot been the least Earring either
between the members OF the club or the
mems orRanizatiou.''