Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-04-14
| WOMAN SUFFRAGE
IN COLORADO.

Professor Horace NJ. Hale, former
president of the Colorado State Uni
v~ersity. has been reused to indignation
by one of the anonymous letters In the
Eastern papers speaking Ill of Colora-
dos women voters, and replies to it in
a trenchant fashion. Prof. Hale is the
father of Gen. Irving Hale, who won so
many laurels in the late war, and has
taken a prominent part in the move
ment for municipal improvement in
Denver.
Prof. Hale says: "In a recent issue of
the New York Sun appeared an item OF
feminine News and Views emanat-
ing from "A Man who spent considera-
BILE time in Colorado prior to the cleo
ton. The article bears upon its face
such evidence of malice and prejudice,
and contains so many slurs and mis-
statements relative to the women OF
Colorado, that, although anonymous, it
should not go unnoticed.
That the women of Colorado took a
lively interest in the campaign just
ended is true, Why should they not?
That they had headquarters in the
Brown Palace hotel is also true. Why
not IIdJ IIIty COuIu NC oCCA laihld6
with each other and with men upon
the issues involved, can not be denied.
Who has a better right to discuss such
issues?
They did take a hand in the polit-
icSl meetings. They did preside. They
did make speeches through the State,
as stated by "a Man Why, we ask,
should all this be made a slur on the
general appearance of our women
'middle-aged, stout and s~hort-skirted,
and gary-haired?'
"a Man says: L did not see what
to my mind was a gracious, quiet, we'll
bred woman in the lot We can not
dispute as to matters of taste, but this
expression gives the Man and his ami
mus completely away, and carried with
it evidence of an intention TO cast a
malicious SANDER Upon some of the
best and noblest women of Denver.
When he was thus impressed, he was
looking upon the wives and daughters
OF our judges, bankers, editors. law
yers, doctors, clergymen and business
men OF the very highest standing. OF
this class were those who presided,
who discussed the issues with the
men, Just as the men were doing. and
all this was done with the approval OF
their husbands. This anonymous Man
would not dare to make such assertions
in Denver over his own signature.
HE further says: After the first no.
velty wore off, very few of the best wo-
men in Denver-best in every sense.
social, intellectual and moral-went
near the polls. In quantity as well as
quality, the women's vote has steadily
decreased There is not a color of
truth in this assertion. Continuing, he
says: This year more women voted
than have done so since the first year;
but that was due to general reasons
rather than to particular ones
Whatever this last sentence may
mean, 1t will readily be seen that the
aforementioned truth completely neu-
tralizes the falsehood Immediately pre-
ceding it. Since the election it has
been officially determined that in this
(Arapahoe) county, the women cast AZ
per cent. of the entire vote.
1T is a mere question Of time, in
my mind he says, until the Colorado
laws granting suffrage to women are
repealed There is not a political par
ty in the State that will ever dare to
insert in its platform an a~nti-sufrage
plank; for it must not be forgotten
that upon this question the voting
power of the women would equal that
of the men. 1t is no more likely that
the women of Colorado will ever be
disfranchised than that the men win
~"