The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-10-08
SOME FUN AHEAD, rERHAps.


When the time comes that the
Speaker of the National House OF Rep
resentatives will hit the board a re-
sounding thump with his gavel and
solemnly announce that "the lady from
Colorado has the floor" We guess that
the members of that body will sit up
straight. feel IL their collars are on
right. and prepare to be good while
the Colorado Congresswoman says
things. We naturally suppose that no
gentleman will dare to Interrupt her.
or try to outalk her. but that all will
listen with respectful silence while she
is expounding.
And 1t is something more than
mere possibility, for they are progress
ing up there, and have had an eye on
Congressional honors for sometime.
The women of Colorado" says The st.
Louis Post Dispatch, seem to be mind
ed to send Mrs. Ruth Bryan-Leavitt to
Congress. Already they have cam
paTgned to the point where the idea
of a woman lawmaker has lost its nov
| city and is accepted as far from revo-
lutionary. They have scared the old
parties to the verge of distraction.
They are exercising dictatorial power
I'm small matters. If the women see
ut to combine in a State where the
suffrage is theirs, they can control.
There are more women than there are
Democrats or Republicans. This is
discomfting rather than astonishing
discovery. 1t upsets all political con-
ditions. The solidifying of the female
vote in Colorado will stop any prog
| ress the suffragettes have made. 1t Is
certain to unite the men of all parties
against woman suffrage unless it can
be demonstrated that the women will
divide into parties. too"
1t is not at all unlikely that the men
| of Colorado, who wish to retain all the
| statesman business In their own hands
including the perquisites-will en-
deavor to find some constitutional bar,
Federal or State. to the ambition of
their acknowledgements. but we predict
their failure. We have the authority
Of poet of more than two centuries
ago that 'if she will. she will, you
may depend on it," and If the women
of that State set their wills and wits to
work to go to Congress the janitor or
whoever has charge of the Hall, may
as well see that proper seats are pre-
pared for one or more of the women
who have determined to have a hand
and voice In the nations law-making.
Also it will be up to that official to
walk out.
1t will be noticed that The Post
Dispatch points out some interesting
political possibilities that may result
from this movement in Colorado. 1t
shows that there are more women vot-
ers in that State than there are voters
in either the Democratic or Republican
parties; consequently, If the men d.
vide on party lines. as they are in the
habit of doing. and the women unite
on candidates of their own sex, they
may be able to elect whomsoever they
please. and might thus be able to cor
raj all the good Offices for themselves.
That would be a nice kettle of fish,
would it not? We can family imagine
the men taking back seats and gnaw-
ing their nails in sullen silence while
the women fiaunt In their faces their
commissions emitting them to go to
Congress and possibly to hold other
good places. But is there even a pos
sibility that the women will unite? Do
they ever unite on anything, for that
matter? On the other hand, supposing
that the women do solidify their forces
at election time, Is 1t at all reasonable
to suppose that Democrats and Repub-
licans will lay aside all party feelings
and unite against the women? That
would not be like party men. to say
nothing of the lack of gallantry it
would show. On the whole, it seems
to an outsider that there may be some
thing doing up in Colorado next year.