Williston graphic., 1903-04-23

mittee. Any candidate for public Office
in the state of Colorado must consult
this earnest and capable young per-
leaders, for she controls hundreds of
votes.
She says that she regards politics as
a sacred duty, and she uses her intlu-
ence to further reform politics. When
it is taken into consideration that all
kinds of dispositions are to be dealt
with by one young woman whose
worldly experience has been confined
to the schoolroom, the home society,
the results she is said to accomplish
are somewhat remarkable.
Mrs. Belford is a direct descendant
of Ethan Allen, of revolutionary fame,
and comes naturally by her patriotic
enthusiasm.
Whenever political questions were
discussed she entered into them with
zeal. She came naturally to taking
an active interest in the practical work
of politics, while gracefully receiving
her coterie of fashionable friends in
her drawing-rooms.
Aside from being the leader of the
women's political "machine," which
is fourishing in Denver, her fashiona
bic friends who have not the slight.
est leaning that way declare she IS
the most wholesome lesson that could
possibly be held up to the notice of
the enemies of woman suffrage.
She has introduced William J. Bryan
and other speakers as distinguished
to an audience that packed the large
broadway theater from pit to dome.
This event was noteworthy one in
the life of the feminine political lead
er. The distinguished apostle Of free
silver came upon the platform escort
ed by Mrs. Belford, and paid her an
eloquent tribute from the stage.
Mrs. Belford has always lived in
Denver. She came to the state when
she was five years old with her parents
from Council Bluffs, Ia. With the man
who is now her husband and the son
Of Hon. J. B. Belford, she was gradu-
ated with honors from the Denver
high school. Three years afterward
they married.
Hon. j. B. Belford was among the
last of the territorial judges of Colo
RADIO. For ten years he represented
the state in congress, in which branch
of the national owing to
his indomitable will and marked per-
,severing individuality-he earned the
title of "Red-headed Rooster of the
Rockies" This dignity, with the Jr.
added, has recently descended to his
son.
When Mrs. Belford's husband was
nominated for the legislature, the
beautiful young society leader very
naturally bent all her efforts to Sc
cure the election of his ticket. Her
victory in this irstance caused strong
minded women throughout the coun-
try to regard her as one of their most
powerful allies.
Mrs. Belford is not yet 30 years old,
and her recent triumphs, and with the
political honor:, she has lately had con-
ferred upon her, have caused her to be
marked as one of the most celebrated
women in the Centennial state.
How They Sized Him Up.
It was in a mission Sunday school,
far over on the east side of New York,
and the brisk young clergyman from
Chicago was about to make a brief ad-
Dress His smile was as complacent
as ingratiating, and he began with an
adroitness (as he supposed) of exor-
lium which would have left Quintilian
speechless with wonder and envy:
sNell, children, l guess none of yo1
knew where I came from" His owA
ingenuity warmed his heart. as he saw
visions of his stockyards stories to
come. But he promptly got Geld
douche ''Oh, yes, we do!" spoke ur
shiny-faced (preternaturally SOY Joe
Dugan in the front row. An orator
must follow his lead. even if it 1sn't the
one he desired. So the youthful minis
ter. slight shade Of disappointment
now on his unwrinkled front, inqui-ed:
"Well, where do you think tke8?'
from the couatS5!"