The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-25
WOMEN IN POLITICS.
How it Works in Colorado.

HOW IL hOFhS in COI0faG0.
 The Colorado woinan's Republican League, with its membership of thirty five hundred active workers, will take no part as an organization in the, ,pres- ent campaign. In fact, the women will refuse to work with the party managers until there is a change in the chairman ship of the republican state committee.
 To be candid. the ladies do not like Chairman Fairley or his methods, and from this time forth they will herald him as disorganizer who is doing his utmost to drive the republican woman out of the field of politics.
 As Mrs. Helen M. Wixson, president of the league. put it this morning:
 MT. Fairley has made it as unpleas- ant as possible for us ever since he be- came chairman. He constantly caused friction and did everything possible to annoy and aggravate us.''
 Mrs. Wixson and Mrs. Mary L. Riley, who is the secretary of the league, closed their desks, packed up their be- longings and left the Woman's Republi- can State headquarters yesterday after noon in very angry frame of mind. They told MT. Fairley that they were done with him, and that he need never expect to see them around the place as long as he was in control.
 The cause of their excessive wrath was his official announcement that he had named Mrs. F. A.. Thompson as vice-chairman of the state committee. Mrs. Thompson is an employe of the surveyor generals office and was re- commended by Mrs. A. J. Peavey and Mrs. lone T. Hanna, who Mrs. Wixson and her friends declare are the personal representatives of Senator Wolcott in the campaign. .~
 z "rhe intelligent women will simply not stand for MT. Fairley," continued Mrs. Wixson with firnness. "He has a reputation for hulldozing and brow beating the men; but the women-the women who think for themselves-will never put up with it. He is opposed to women in politics unless they will bow to his will. If he cannot have the kind as his assistants that will do his bidding and act like a lot of slaves he don't want women in politics at all. I have not resigned as president of the league, but have simply withdrawn from the work at headquarters, continued Mrs, Wixson further, ss& .z7s+
 s'The league did not ask for my ap- pointment as MT. Fairleys vice-chair- man, but we expected it because we thought we were entitled toit. Our of ficers had been recognized all along as |ithel head of the, wo1nan's organization of the state. Mir Farley gave us a room at headquarters and the under standing was that we were to direct the woinan's campaign from there. He placed me in charge, and the league thought, of course, that he would name me for vice-chairnlan when the time came for him to fill the place, but you see what he has done. Mrs. Thompson knows nothing about politics, and she don't know the women. Her appoint ment is a direct slap at the league with it's thousands of voters. F ''Not withstanding the way MT. Fair | ley has treated us, we will be loyal to the ticket, want to say it emphatical- ly on behalf of the league that as indi- viduals we will work for the success of the ticket as long as we do not have to come in contact with the state chairman or are asked to obey any of his orders.
 For that matter, we will do all we | can to relp Mrs. Thompson. but we won't go near headquarters as long as that man Farley is there. We shall preserve our organization for work in future campaigns" #*=. | Mrs Emma Johnson, president of the Eagle Woman's Republican club, has written letter to Chairman Lowry de- nying that there is dissatisfaction in the club over the appointment of Mrs. Jo- siah Hughes as vice-chairman of the | county committee. Another faction of the Eagle club however, is saying harsh things about MT. Lowry on &C., count of the selection of Mrs. Hughes Denver Post.