The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-02
Wcfileil and Society.
BY MRs. ' M. pi CoTTEs.

The following is from Miss Frances Grimm, who wishes to defend her sex in the Denver ballot box stuffing;
 My Dear Mrs. de Cottes:
 Your little squih on woman suffrage leads me to make 6 few remarks of cor rection to the statements that concern Hon. John l.. Shafroth of Colorado, who seems to have had sort of Loves la bor iostv experience in his efforts to reach the House of Representatives of the United States.
 Mfr. shafroth. in an authorized inter view. pronounced as aosurd the state meut that women were mainly responsi- bic for the cheating. He said:
 'Of the persons implicated in these frauds, only a very small fraction were women, not more than one woman to ten men, at fhes outside. The few women who were Involved in 1t were put up to 1t by the men. To use the incident against woman suffrage Is preposterous. Everybody knows there are bad women as we'll as bad men, but in the propor- ton of one to twenty. Would 1t be an argument for taking good mans vote away from him because a few bad men somewhere cheated at an election? The frauds were committed in a bad part of Denver. where few women live. To rep resent them as characteristic of women's election methods in Colorado is an out rage. The women of Colorado vote as generally as the men and fraud Is much rarer among them than among the men. The influence of woman suffrage upon our State has been for good"
 So much from the candidate himself. Ex-Governor Adams of Colorado was questioned on tho same subject at the congressional hearing before United States Judiciary Committee. The chair man said that the House had just lost . valued member in Mir, Shafroth and asked whether the women took part with their husbands in tfia recent frauds. Ex- Governor Adams answered that hundreds of men In Colorado were under indict- ment for illegal voting, and that up to this year only one woman had ever been found guilty of it. In the present instance only three or four women seem- ed to have been involved.
 At the recent suffrage convention held at Washington, there were some very interesting statements made by Mrs. Hell en L. Grenfel. State superintendent of public instruction for Colorado. She said that the women of her State had always had school suffrage even before they had full suffrage. The result of which Is seen in the magnificent school system where there is not a school director chos- en because of his political afnliation.
 E Judge Louis W. Cunningham of Colo rado City, gives the following testimony on the point of the swoman's casting a ballot acting as . preventive of the nom- nation of obnoxious persons. He says:
 Tn Colorado City during the years from 1888 to 1898 inclusive. there were six may ors or presidents of the board, as they were first called. who were saloon keep CTS. During the same period there was but one year where q saloon keeper was not in the Town Council, and that year the Mayor was saloon keeper. During two or three years there were three sa- loon keepers in the Council, and for one year we had q mayor and three coun- cilmen who lived on the woes of others. Since 1884, when women came to their own, there has never been saloon keep CT elected to any office in Colorado City," fsse Frances Griffin