The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-10-31
CHILDREN CAMPAIGN.
Bitter Battle for Isettermcnt Waged
In George Junior Nation.

New York, Oct. 31.--Returns
from the first national campaign
ever waged by the citizens of the
George Junior Republic in Califor
MIA. Maryland. New York and Con-
necticut were received in this city
today at the headquarters of the
adult organization that is spreading
this movement for reclaiming incor-
rigible boys and girls throughout the
country. In the miniature republics
at San Fernando, Annapolis june
ton, Freeville and Litchfield where
the four original states of the new
juvenile nation have just been or
ganized, several hundred citizens"
less than eighteen. have worked out
for themselves their own parties,
platforms, candidates and campaign
plans just as independently and per-
haps more vigorously than their ell
ders in the larger republic. In all this
electioneering woman's rights have
been upheld by the girls of these
unique communities, who proved to
be among the best spell-binders, pol
| iticians and voters of all the young
| strugglers for better things
Full tickets for president, vice
pItSlueul, -ulStTlCl attorney, peIdl
authorities and secretaries of state
and treasury were put in the field
| by the youngsters who, according to
| the George idea, were left entirely
| to their own initiative and will have
| to abide by the consequences. If the
incoming administration of boys and
girls fails to keep its pledges or
proves committed to measures that
work out wrong in the youthful self
government reform measures and
an even more fierce battle at the
polls next year will be undertake
by the citizens as has often hap
1pened at the parent George Junior
Republic where child rule and self
reform have worked themselves out
with success for the last fourteen
years.
Regulation of the labor, which
each youngster soon finds he must
do to make livelihood in the little
communities; and the question of
changing the currency, which each
learns to earn, save and spend thrift
THY, are two Of the issues over which
the new nation of boys and girls
have been struggling in this national
i campaign. Exact determination of
the constitution and laws which they
| have framed, as well as their inter-
probation by the juvenile Office hold
ers, also takes a leading part in the
| platforms of both parties. The labor
agitator, demagogue and socialist is
| this year in evidence, in youthful
prototypes, among the citizens of all
| the George Junior Republics; but
the history of the original republic
| here shows that the children turn in
the end to just about the same con-
servatism as holds among their
| leaders
Female suffrage, which was in
| troduced by the boys and girls years
ago at Freevillc, has this fall
brought out some interesting side
lights on the woman in politics in
the young republics of California,
Maryland, New York and Connect
cut. The girl vote, it is reported, has
never been certain until the last bal
lot was dropped at the polls, which
were conducted according to the
most modern system. Though many
of the more solid female citizenN
could be counted upon to declare
and carry out their convictions. the
majority changed their minds half
a dozen times on their way to the
ballot box and were found to be very
susceptible to electioneering.
Our first presidential campaign
has worked out we'll and each sue
ceeding one will work out better"
said William r. George, founder of
the junior republic idea, today.
Nothing is perfect in the greater
republic and we do not claim perfec-
ton for our idea, which will live
long after am dead. Only by letting
our boys and girls struggle to better
their conditions for themselves, as
all we adults do, can we make them
the good citizens we strive to be. In
these campaigns every youngster
has proved himself a good model for
older politicians