Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-24
MARIAN MARTIN THINKS
OBSERVER LACKS KNOWLEDGE


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DENVER, Colo Aug. 14.-[Editor
Heraldl 1t really is too bad that OBJ
server must lose the delectable pleas
ure to be derived from the supposed
! caustlc remarks of former Governor
Buchtel against woman suffrage. The
! chancellor has been misquoted, and he
! has written a letter to Denver paper
declaring the remarks credited to him
! in eastern papers and reprinted in Los
! Angeles are without foundation in fact.
| However, Observer can say enough
/ to cover any failure on the part of the
| chancellor to discuss equal suffrage un-
favorably. Besides Observer is not
| bound by any of the old school rules OF
chivalry that caused the former gov
ernor to deny making statements cast
! ing serious reflections on the standard
of womanhood of Colorado.
It is especially cOnsiderate of OBJ
| server to infer that it was that same
| chivalry on the part of the strong arm
| of the law that kept women out or
| Jail when his friend BILLY Green" and
| others of his ilk were punished for po-
| itical offenses. The writer had i'm
agined it was because the women We're
more honest, the recent letter of OBJ
| server would cause one to think the
women might have been saved because
there were only flesh pots enough TO
! supply the demands of the male voter.
Observer might use his powers of
observation to advantage reviewing his
| own letters to get acquainted with his
! peculiar brand of logic. He pretends
| that women do not vote when given a
! chance vet contends that because she
| does vote in Colorado the political cor
ruption in that state must be charge
able to her. No woman cares to meas
| ure words to meet an argument of such
rare logic; it would be waste of time.
y nat the women of Colorado are will
! ing to do-as far as the writer has been
! able to get the consensus Of opinion
is to be ever ready to face the bar of
| judgment regarding their own political
acts, but they object to being held re-
sponsible for the schemes and trades
and corporation deals that men high in
political circles have sometimes resort
ed to in the effort to advance individ-
ual and corporate interests.
If Observer were even ordinarily
| honest in his investigation of political
corruption he could never make such
mistake as to suppose that any visits
! of Judas Iscariot to Denver could pos
sibly result in his being made mayor
| by "Tramway Bill" for he would know
that the Hon. William usually makes
use of such good old souls as Chancel-
lor Buchtel whom, it is currently re-
clever manipulation of political wires,
is il any wonder the women get fooled
occasionally and cast their vote for a
corporation candidate?
Observer with his usual clear logic,
says the bishop in the Methodist Epis-
copal church "came to the governor
ship by accident; politicians don't Sc
lect that class of men for office" Then
he adds that "the party needed mau
with a good name as a cloak to cover
a multitude of sins" thus proving con-
clusively that he was selected entirely
by politicians, which was the case, as
he was not even a convention candi-
date. Yes, Observer, the politicians
needed the chancellor, and they got
him, and the women voted for him.
But if Observer is familiar with facts
as to why and how the chancellor of
Denver university came to the gov
ernOrship he took courage from the be-
lief that his California readers are not.
philip Stewart gentleman" was the
convention nominee of the Republican
party. He had issued the ultimatum
that Chief Justice GabbaTt must not be
renominated on the same ticket carry
ing his distinguished name. The cor
pOratiOns were said to be pledged to
Gabbart and he refused to be sacri-
feed even to save the ticket from de-
feat, for had he not rendered decisions
favorable TO corporations throughout
the Peabody Sherman Bell "to-h-l-
th-the-constitutiOn" regime? And he
needed a re-electi6n to prove to the
people that his decisions had been just.
SO the ultimatum of the head of the
ticket was disregarded. and four days
OTTER the convention adjourned 1Philip
Stewart, gentleman" developed the
worst case of "cOld feet" the Rocky
mountain state ever witnessed. and,
washing his hands Of the whole affair,
| rendered his resignation and retired to
private life at his home in Colorado
| Springs Then "Tramway BIZ re-
membered a debt Of gratitude he owed
the old chancellor and is reported to
have summoned the state central com
mittee into his august presence and
placed his official O. X. beside the chan
cellors name and started him out as
running mate to save the day for a
corporation judge whom, it is said,
Mr. Stewart refused to accept for a
yolSefellOW.
The Oregonian IS not friendly to
equal suffrage, but it would be a diff
ficult matter for its editor to connect
woman with its charge that even the
courts We're not free from the contain
mating influence of politics, for the
women Of Colorado have no Portias on
the bench. If they had they might
loose the grip of a few of the ShylOcks
"at the throat Of the republic" instead
of spending their time, as Observer
does, in what he calls "the vitupera-
tion of small minds"
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