The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-03

Bryans Denver Headquarters and
National Committeeman James G.
Dahlman. the Man i'm Charge.
the ladies of Denver. The Jane Jeffer-
son club, of which Mrs. Ruth Bryan
Leavitt. daughter of Hon. w. J. Bryan,
is president, is preparing elaborate
headquarters at which rest rooms will
be provided and refreshments served
and other organizations will follow
suit. The ladies of Colorado will seize
the opportunity afforded by the con-
vention to spread the equal suffrage
propaganda among their sisters of
other states by attempting to show
that the franchise departure has
operated advantageously in this state.
Mrs. Leavitt is a resident of Colorado
and was at one time talked of as
Mr.. Bryan's other daughter, Miss
Grace and his only son, William Jen-
nings Bryan. jr., are in the state and
will attend the convention.
Colorado and Utah have each
elected a woman delegate at large"
! tion-Mrs. Mary C. Bradford. of Dem
yer, and Mrs. H. J. Hayward. of Salt
| Lake. AS alternates, Sarah Ventress,
! of Salt Lake. and Mrs X. M Cook, of
| Brighton, Colo. have been chosen.
Their votes will be the first to be cast
| by women in any national convention
| of Democrats.
First Women Delegates.
Mrs. Hayward has not reached the
| city but Mrs. Bradford. who lives
| here, is taking an active interest in
/ the convention. She is a widow and
grandmother. educated, experienced
| in the lecture platform and is a
writer on labor problems. She has
| the distinction of being the first
woman in the state to be nominated
| for state office-superintend of
schools. After making the only ac-
| tive campaign made by any of the
| Democratic nominees that year. the
| struggle for supremacy being prac-
| tically between the Populists and Re
publicans. she was defeated, but re-
| ceived double the number of votes
| cast for the candidate for governor on
was to be the first woman chosen on
| the Democratic state central COM
/ mittee which now has just as many
women members as men. Mrs. Brad
| ford was then elected county superin-
| tendent of schools, president of the
state federation of womens clubs,
member from the state of the
Women's National Suffragist associa-
ton and has been prominently
| identified with political affairs for the
| Is years that women have had the
| ballot in this state.
II don't think woman suffrage has
| fulfilled all the hopes of those who
| believed that in Is years women could
correct all the mistakes the men have
made in the past 125 years." was Mrs.
| Bradford's quick response for her esti-
| mate of the success of the male suf-
| frage. 1T mas not revolutionized
things, but do think it has set force
\ in motion which is gradually working
| for the uolift of the state.
Women Democrats by Intuition.
| hoI n nomination
and for a New York man for the vice
presidency-preferably Chanler. think
that would be good politics. 1 am in
| favor of an Injunction plank. which
| Dor. You see I write editorials for a
| local paper. and have very decided
| views on such subjects.
! why am / a Democrat?
First. by lineage. 1 was born a
Democrat in New York. My husband
who was a Republican. used to laugh
at me and tell me 1 did not know Why
! / was a Democrat. l asked myself the
| same question and as 1 could not an
swer it. l put all other reading aside
for more than year and study pol1tl,
] cal platforms. read the Declaration OF
| Independence Democratic document
! you know-I read the writings of JEFF
| ferson and of Hamilton. and the con-
stitution and 1 came out that year
| study a Democrat by conviction.
! Mrs. Bradford for Bryan.
! "And my husband? Well as long as
he voted for nine Democrats on a tick
| ct did not care If the first name he
marked was a Republican. / voted fol
| some Republicans also. But I believe
| women are Democrats by intuition O1
| course the majority of women do not
make study of political question
| Why should they, being denied vote
But they are the natural distributors
! The husband brings his earnings tt
! the home, the wife's duty is to make
| causes monopolies. consequently she
| favors the lowest possible tariff con-
| sistent with the maintenance OF Twins
| wages and adequate provision for the
| future of the household. This is Dem
| ocratic doctrine.
MY political belief is that govern
| ment is the science of right living II
organized communities; politics deter.
| mines the method by which government
| shall be administered. / believe thai
| without Democratic principles thi:
| country would speedily go the way o.
the republics of the past"
In her capacity as the representative
of the suffrage organization. but no
as delegate, Mrs Bradford will appear
| before the resolutions committee, tt
| urge the adoption of an equal suffrags
| plank She is secretary of the STATE
| delegation and expects to have no com
/! mittee assignment.
| But than all else am I proud to bt
4 a grandmother" was her parting re
mark as she bowed the Interviews
from her modest little cream bricl
cottage.
Inland Waterway Plank.
Colonel Henry T. Clarke of Omaha