Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-17
Suffrage Char
of Interest

nominated the men, or most OF tnoso
they wanted. Politicians were Woe
fully astonished when they found
women had cast one-third OF the wnoie
VOTE.
The Detroit papers say the interest
in the election conferred in the In
spectors' contest and they give credit
to women for the work they did: -,
Women's organizations incluuin a
ward clubs of mothers were formed,
worked and voted.
When voters saw mothers carrying
babies, with toddlers walking peside
them going into the booth, they real
ICED the determination existing for
better administration of the schools.
These voting women carried SUCH an
influence as no non-yoting woman
could possibly have carried and men
hitherto opposed~>to suffrage admitted
that the presence of these new voters
brought about the victory.
The Detroit Journal of March 2 says
editorially: 1.-THE Journals pessimistic
editorial yesterday anent the political
potency of women suffrage was evil
IDENTIFY premature. The ladies did 1t,
In very large measure, and they did 1t
with finality and finesse. In pretty
nearly all of the ten wards In which
primaries for school inspectors were
held there were annihilations ana re-
prisals," while the Free Press remarks:
From the way the women cleaned up,
it appears to have been a political wash
day." We hope Detroit women know
that they not only did their duty In
working and voting at this election,
but that they have become more self
respecting and more respected; that
they have lifted ali women OF the
United States little higher; and that
they have answered some editors who
have been repeating the words of some
subscribers: But women do not want
the ballot and do not vote when they
have it,. Detroit women will see that
the men nominated are elected, of
course.
Writing of the Boston meeting of
March Is, which incidentally was the
largest women suffrage meeting ever
held in Massachusetts,, Mary Hutchinson
Page writes:
when I saw that great fremont
temple filed with an audience that
went back to the wall In the top gal
lery and heard the newsboys shouting
In the streets All about woman suf-
frage!' and when / saw the great au-
dience rise to show its belief in woman
suffrage when the motion was put from
the platform, realized solemnly that
we had embarked upon new phase OF
our movement and that we must make
ourselves ready to lead the hosts"
d
Three thousand, three hundred and
sixty-two women voted at the election
in Cedar Rapids Ia, on the question of
bonding the city for the purpose of
building new schoolhouses and repair
The Cedar Rapids Republican says of
this election:
"a feature of the day was the voting
by the women on the building PROPOSE
ton. They entered into the spirit of
the election with zeal which was as
admirable as IL was commendable. No
woman felt Inundated by going to the
polls, and the contact with the poll
ticians, of which much is always writ
ten, did not seem to be either offensive
or harmful to them. The men every
where showed the women the most
courteous treatment"
q
Miss Ethel Arnold, sister ofeMrs.
Humphry Ward, said in recent adj
dress: 1.-THE men say that we women
are not mentally strong enough to be
trusted with the right of the ballot.
We are not basing our claim on mental
strength. If this were a requisite, l
think that some of the present electors
would find themselves in embarrassing
positions"
A certain Edward Clark having writ
ten to the London Daily News letter
asserting that when women vote only
the Adonis type of candidate would be
popular Miss Mary Lowndes, president
of the Woman Suffrage League of
Artists, replied to him In the columns
of the same paper, asking that one of
it's reporters be sent to look at the
borough councillors, elected by the wo-
men, and confirm her statement that
they are remarkably ugly.
s.
III, q EnlIal SHffra o.
ISOLATION is circulating petition which
indorses a bill introduced in the as
sernbly for the submission of const1tu-
tional amendment to the voters OF Mis-
souri, at the election in November, 1910.
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The town councils of Glasgow, Dun
dee and many other Scottish burghs
have passed resolutions calling upon
parliament to give full suffrage to wo-
men.
In England the following resolution
has been adopted by the prison reform
committee of the Humanitarian league:
.Inasmuch as for three years past, I'M
der a liberal government more than 700
persons have been imprisoned for viola
ton of law, not of a criminal nature,
for instance the agitation of women in
favor of suffrage. Be 1t resolved that
the prison reform committee of the
HUMANITARIAN ledSu5 QeiidlluS DIT once
in the treatment of prisoners a very
clear distinction established between
those who are convicted of some viola
ton of common right and those who
suffer for the triumph Of their cause"
Mrs. Mary e. Wilkins Freeman is re-
ported as saying that If the suffrage
petition which was lost in the mail had
reached her, she would have signed it.
The Equal Franchise society of New
York City. of which Mrs. Clarence H.
Mackay is president, has arranged to
have the Garden theater for its meet
ings next year,
The first issue of the Common Cause
appeared on April Is. This latest
organ of the Womens Movement for
Reform emanates from Manchester,
England and will be edited by M. A.
Swanwick. It aims to interpret the
aspirations and opinions of clever wo-
men without distinction of class.
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The Irish Association for the Suffrage
Of Women has held brilliant meeting
In the Dublin city hall, the mayor hav-
ing readily given his consent.
THE COMRADES GRAVE
Comradel
You who once marched by my side,