Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-11-10
MEXICO GIRL TURNS
A SPELL BINDER,
SruMPs ILLINOIS FOR THE
DEMOCRATIC TICKET AND Is
GREETED CORDIALLY.
AAA2Es CROWD WITH POLITICS
Miss Lizzie Walton, a Former Mex
leo Girl, Makes no Plea for
Women's Suffrage, But Dis.
cusses Questions as They
Now Are.

Miss Lizzie Craig waltoE a St,
Louis girl, formerly Of Mexico, Mo-,
mas undertaken task herculean.
This slip Of Missouri girl who ha,
Just turned 20, has entered the politi
cal arena, and With dauntless courage
has undertaken to overcome the hun
dred thousand or so majority that the
Republican party has in Illinois, anc
tufn The electoral vote Of the Sucker
state into the Democratic column.
From the platform in the magnifi
cent halls Of the large cities, from The
rostrum OF the little red schoolhoust
In the country, from the stump at the
CROSSROADS, this dainty and refined bill
oil femininity is appearing daily, weav
ing political spells as effective as those
OF the veteran campaigners.
Men who attend the meetings where
she is billed to speak, go to hear what
woman can possibly tell about the
political situation. They leave ID
wonderment that mere slip of a CIR
could have gained so thorough a know
ledge of things political, and more
still that she can tell them thing
that they have always disbelieved
and put it in such a light that appear
almost as II they had been mistaken
all along.
MASTERS sTATECRAFr.
Women attend; they know not why
and they leave charmed with the east
in which one Of their sex has apparent
ly mastered the mysteries Of statecrsfi
and delighted at the apparent plan
and frank manner in which the
speaker explains questions that they
had always supposed were so complex
that 1t would take a masculine bralr
to unravel.
Miss Walton has had no little train
ing for the work she now has in hand
Her father, the Rev. T. M. Walton, Il
an eloquent Baptist divine. Hel
grandfather, Philip Rebman, late o
Mexico, Mo-, was for many years |
potent factor in political circles.
Miss Walton early evinced a talen
for elocution, and gained considerable
Of a reputatian by her participation II
private theatricals.
Speaking extemporaneously from
the stump is new experience for her
but she enjoys the work far more, sh
says, than the elecutionary AM
theatrical pursuits that for so lon
have been accepted as conventiona
calling for women. Miss Waltol
lives with her parents at 2527 Glasgow
avenue.
81 see no reason" stated the fai
young campaigner to The Star, "wh
a woman should not discuss live issue
the same as men, am not maxim
any plea fer women's suffrage. ! tr
| to present the political situation I
my listeners as they are, and tell ther
how | would like to have them. / tr
te always discuss live issues, andf rt
frain from taking up absurd hobbies
BELIEVES IN DEMOCRACY.
| The audiences that have gretted m
| In this campaign have been uniforml
courteous. They have listened after
lively to what have said, and haV
given me fair hearing. l know ths
the task of changing the politics
character Of the State Of Illinois Is
great one, and l have never bee
egotistlcal enough to think that
should be the one to accomplish !
But | am thoroughly in earnest in N
work. belive what | preach, and
have sufficient courage to proclaim m
convictions at any place and at an
time.
"Recent administrations In I'll
State of Illinois have not been up
that excellent standard they shoui'
, In every sphere of life women hay
proven a potent factor, and there is
reason why she should not have son
influence in molding political belle
as she does public opinion.
81 would not advocate the electi'
n, n single candidate, unless l wi