Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-01-17

The Daughters Of the Revolution held
an interesting session at the Exponent
office yesterday
At the Ladies' Literary club yester-
day DR.. Luella Miles gave a sketch OF
the life Of Rudolph Virchow. and Mrs.
Byron Groo reviewed "rhe Virgin
ians."
The Cleofan met on Tuesday with
Mrs II. l.. A. Culmer, the program
consisting Of paper on "rhe Sculp-
ture Of France" by Mrs. Susie Ritter
Wells. and one on "The Sculpture OF
Italy" by Mrs Fannie Clayton.
At the meeting OF the Woman's club
this week Mrs, p n. Cook read a pa
per on '"rhe Regency Of Marie de Med
lei"
Mrs. Wedgewood gave paper on
Sidney Lanier at the Reviewers this
week and Miss Lee reviewed "The Mas
terry of the Pacific"
Mrs. Minnie James viii entertain the
Daughters Of the Pioneers at her home
1870 Third street on Saturday, Jan. "a,
at Up. m. An Interesting program has
been prepared for the occasion.
All members are urgently requested
to be present.
We quote the following from an in
teresting article on Equal Suffrage In
Co,oradQ." by Helen Marsh Nixon, In
tie Era Magazine:
The story OF how equal suffrage came
10 be an established fact In Colorado Il
an interesting one, and involves the
names or the most prominent women Of
the state When Colorado was admit
ted as state there was provision In
the constitution giving power TO I, the
general assembly TO extend the suffrage
to women such action to take effect
only when approved by a majority Of
voters at a general election, At THAI
time the subject was agitated but the
vote, AT the general election, was more
than two 20 one against the equal
suffragists. In November, 1903. II was
again tried, and thanks to the work Of
the Suffrage association, and the fact
that Colorado had the fairest minded
men IN the world, the amendment was
carried by some 5000 votes, and In De-
cember Gov. II. H. Waite, the famous
Ptpulist governor, signed the proclama-
ton. Since that time much has beer
said and written about the passage %
the bill lta enemies contend that II
parsed practically by default, the law
mixers wishing to pass the responsi-
billy on to the people, and the poll
tcians. fearing TO vote against the
measure because Of possible results TO
themselves In the future The sense
Of Justice and right, indigenous TO the
west, had much TO do with IT, Perhaps,
too the political conditions being much
unsettled made the men Of the state
more ready to share the responsibility.
However that may be, the responsible
lty was very thoroughly shared at the
frst general election after the passage
Of the bill. The state was In need OF
redemption from Fusion misrulei and
tho election was holly contested, the
yemen doing their part. There was
full registration, and AZ per cent OF the
entire registered vote Of the state was
cast by women. The result was that
Pcpulsm was defeated by the women
and the very governor who signed the
tlll was relcgated to the rear. Those
were stirring times and the years have
made them not less so, as familiarity
has made the women prize more the
privilege that Is theirs. Use has not
meant abuse. and women Of high char
scter, social standing and intelligence
have taken an active part IN politics
0gd are among the leaders. II is not
true that women blindly adopt the po-
ltical Views OF their husbands and
fathers Actual figures go to prove that
a large number OF them-lO per cent In
a recent election vote independently, in
creasing, not doubling, the vote, a
wealthy wholesale merchant Of Den
yer can testify to the truth of thl
statement, He undertook, In the pres
ence of his wife. to give her politics as
well as his own to a canvasser. She
was quite equal TO the occasion, and
her words, my dear, you were not my
sponsor IN baptism, neither can you be
in my politics" settled the matter for
all time.
She concludes with;
II II lust beginning to dawn on the
political managers that there Is a wo-
man vote IN this country with which
they must reckon. In former years
they devoted their energies to captur-
ins the different foreign votes, now they
must look after new element IN
American politics-the woman vote.
To sum up the net results of suffrage
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