The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-20

would vote and the good would not.
While this Is only a supposition and
not an argument, 1t no doubt has had
much weight with certain classes op-
posed to suffrage. Hence it is with
interest that one reads of the result
of the last election relative TO this
phase of woman suffrage IN Denver,
the largest city in the United States
where full suffrage is given. The.
following is taken from the report of
a group of people who were sent out
by the different newspapers TO study
conditions and records on election
day
In studying the lists of registered
voters, we learned that on Capitol hill
the best residential parts OF the city,
more women registered and voted
than men. the highests number of wo-
men being 50 per cent in one pre-
cfnct, the proportion of women to
men decreasig toward the slum or
tendefloin wards. In the working
centers where larger number OF
men than women live, 81 per-, cent OF
the votes were cast by women. In the
tenderloin district, where we have
been told evil women would out vote
the good, in one precinct where there
were 100 registered voters, 100 were
women and out of. that number but 90
voted. In a neighboring precinct, 80
only out of the 400 votes were cast by
women. These two precincts repre-
sent the worst tenderloin and lowest
elements of the CITY,. When / asked
billie Green" the boss of onerof the
precincts, where all the women of
that precinct were, as not one was
visible at the polls, he said, Nothing
doing in women's votes here any
more" ] asked why, and he replied,
"Oh, the people sat down on this, sort
of thing some years ago. / then ask
ed him If the so-called bad women's
vote was ever large and he replied, mo
they viii never vote if they don't have
to. They don't care anything about
it. Then they never live long enough
in one house to gain a residence for
voting and most of them live under
false names Whenever they vote
they are made to do so by bad OFF,
Gals to keep out of jail i know
laughing. l understood his meaning
better later when the News reporter
who accompanied me told me Mr..
Green had served nine months in Jail
for forcing the poor unfortunate men
and women to vote.
The man who is the so-called boss
OF the other tenderloin district warn
ed me against woman suffrage as ii
demoralized women, and the bad wo-
men would outvote the good. / re-
marked, There is not one woman in
line here nor in Mr.. Green's precinct,
but on Capitol hill half and more OF
the voters are women and the only
place women are not voting is here
in the slums." He shook his head
and said, 1T demoralizes women" On
leaving him | was informed he was
one of many men who had served six
months in Jail for illegal voting and
that he was part owner of the only in
decent theater in Denver and that he
did more to corrupt the unfortunate
men and women than any other man
in the state. While it is not true that
all men are corrupt who say they fear
politics will corrupt women, you may
be sure that all men of the type of
this ward boss viii always harp on
that string. We know now from per-
sonal observation that where the wo-
men are respectable, home making,
Industrious and intelligent, a large
per cent register and vote, that in the
tenderloin districts few voluntary
votes are cast by women, and this
year very few voted even though the
election was very close. In the por-
ton OF the city where large numbers
OF women vote, fully one half the poll.
ing places were in parlors of private
houses, not one in a saloon. Further,
not a single saloon was open, front
door Eor back Some vacant stores,
restaurants. barber shops and garages
were utilized, but by far the greater
number We're in houses.
"All day long / saw no man show