Blue-grass blade., 1908-07-12

and her discisions are quoted to this day.
During President McKinleys admnistra
tiCn Marilla was slated for foreign con-
suship and though far more competent
than the average consul or foreign minister
She was defeated because she was wo-
man. which proves that political parties are
locking out for favorites than the ability
of their appoin' ees. Marlla NJ. Kicker has
always possessed an ample fortune, and
being a splendid financier she has kept i,
intact and increased it, which has enabled
her TO be more then generous to the great
causes she advocates, and to those who
need help she gives with lavish nand
She has travelled extensively spending
'hree years in Europe. On her first trip
0Nrcad she carried letter of introduction
from United States Chief Justice, Salmon
p. Chase, to the Chief Justice of England
and she was invited by that dignitdry to
don robe and wig and sit on the Bench
with him, which she did being the first
and only woman that ever sat on the Su-
preme Bench with Englands Chief Justice.
! will venture that Marlla had as much
brains and law sense as that Chief of JUS
tice, and know she was better looking. for
she has a commanding manner and a head
and face handsomer than the models of the
Roman Senator. We all know judges as
rule are not handsome or burdened with
brains. or the other qualities that should
constitute the model Judge. If Marilla were
on the OUlltu oldltS ouDltHS iptHth III
which she is better fitted than many that
have been there. we would not only have
better looking Judge that we ever had be-
fore but one that would not reverse her
own decision for political purposes. Ma
rilla was born Freethinker and Woman
Suffragst. There never was time when
she did want to vote, and she says she used
to yell "bloody murder" when her father
would take her brother six years older than
she was to town meeting" and her mother
would not let her 60
In March 1870 Marlla went TO the polls
at her home in Dover New Hampshire and
tried to vote, but was refused because she
was a woman. although she was some
twenty-one years old, a law abiding citizen
and a large taxpayer. This is the sham
republicanism we are living under today,
and we have the results in our political,
financial judicial Industrial and social re,
lgous rottenness that is proving on the
vials of the United States government.
When Marilla NJ. Kicker was refused a
vote she appeared before the selectmen OF
her town and made speech of protest be-
fore them, which is one of the finest things
I'm suffrage literature. She instituted the
suffrage organization in New Hampshire
and with her brains, influence. and money
has done more for the wCmen of her state
rl,an any other woman within its borders.
She is Il If" member of th- National Stuff
rage Association and has given much money
Ia the cause The Woman Suffrage leaders
of today are not made of the timber of
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan b. Anthony
and Marilla NJ. Kicker but spend more
time iunketing through Europe than work
ing for Woman Suffrage in the United
States, consequently England and other for
eign countries are leaving us i'm the rear on
the suffrage question, and it may be that
we will have to be dashed to the wheels or
the car of Progress, as the South was on
the slavery question.
But the browning glory of this great