Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-05-05
WOMEN TO. PLAY | CITY
Model Government Scheme Of
Chicago Social Economic Club.
NO DETAIL TO BE 0vERL O0KED

la Mayor, Who Will Choose Cabinet,
and Thirty-five Aldermen to Be
Elected Council Will Meet Tuesday
Afternoons Following "ReaI" Meeting.
Having had a mayor de facto,
mayor de inre, a nonresident assistant
mayor,sa deputy assistant mayor, good
mayors and bad mayors, fat and lean
mayors and mayors who weren't may.
ors at all, Chicago is to be treated to
the raresexperience Of having femi-
nine near mayor, says the Chicago
Tribune. 1t is also to have city
council Of feminine near-aldermen.
For convenience they will be called
alderwomen.
Burying the despair that followed
the defeat of every effort to secure lmu-
snicipal suffrage for women, the Social
Economic club, composed Of advanced
thinkers, settlement workers, public
spirited women, feminine physicians
and lawyers and a handful Of single
| takers and socialists has voted to or
game itself into "a model municipal
government. Systematization Of the
| reform, philanthropic and civic work
carried on by the club is the chief pur-
pose Of the plan to organize the club
into miniature city government.
No detail Of municipal government is
to be neglected by the clubwomen. Not
only are they to- have a near-mayor
and near-aldermen called aIderwom-
en-. but they are to have corporation
counsel, city attorney, commission
| er of public works, a chief Of police, a
commissioner Of health, city treas
urer and all the other big and little
1 officers set down on the city's payroll.
1 Furthermore, they are to have board
OF education, drainage board, II.
brary board, a street cleaning depart
/ ment finance committee, local
transpo ation committee, committees
Of streets and alleys north, west and
south and every other kind of q com.
1 mittee.
The woman's city council'' will hold
4 it's meetings Tuesday afternoons fol
lowing the Monday night meetings OF
the real city council, and If the real
body does anything which the near
council does not like the near-counci
will make its opinions known with lit
tie ado. DINO
As the membership Of the Socia
Economics club is not large enough tt
permit Of seventy alderwomen and all
Of the other city officers besides, 1t hal
been decided to have only thirty-five
aldermen, one from each ward. Mrs
John F. Thompson, president Of thu
club and conservative motherly wo
man, has been intrusted with the tasl
Of appointing the various aldermen
She will make her appointments during
the summer, and they will be announc
ed in the forthcoming year book o,
the club. At the first meeting Of thu
club in October the Office Of mayor
and the other elective offices will BIZ
filed, the mayor will name her cabi
net, and the steering committee Of the
council will make up the various com
mittees. Already several women have
been mentioned as likely mayoralty
timber, and the campaigning has beer
OcS VI II uueC way. MTS. thompson
has been urged to run for mayor, but
she says she does not want the office.
A tentative slate has been made UP
as follows:
Mayor-Mrs. Corinne Brown, Social
list, or Mrs. Claribel schmitt, independ.
i ent.
City Treasurer Mrs. John F. Thomp.
\ SON
Comptroll Ter Mrs. Albert johnson.
4 Corporation Counsel One Of the wo.
men lawyers Of the club. f a
4 Commissioner Of Health-Dr. Frances
4 Dickinson.
Beyond the foregoing Offices the slate
makers have not gone, but it is ex-
| pected that before October two tickets
i will be In the feld-a Socialist and an
pendent ticket. 1t is conceded that
Miss Louie g. Kilbourn, former presi-
dent of the Teachers federation, will
be made president Of the board Of edu.
cation. sss S..