Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-21
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Edited by
M. N. IF. Bridgham
Where Women Stand at the Helm

Suppose a woman's left widow
she goes to a lawyer. I'd rather be
held up with CUNTS more gentle
manly The lawyers protected by his
profession and the highwayman isn't
oh. it's time the rest of you states
had suffrage.
Suffrage is one thing and politics
is another. How do you get time to
do anything besides run the machine"
"I don't know how, but 1 do it..
Just let me tell you what I've done
since last spring. 1 got my Denver
house all renovated, then l went out
to my ranch, $50 miles from here.
at took charge myself, did the cook
ing, fed eight or ten people, hired a
man and superintendent his hay cut
ting, rode to town, twenty-five miles,
cross saddle, every few days. ran
back to Denver just long enough to
attend the primaries, back to the
ranch i'm again for the state ConVen-
ton, back, and now I'm in for the
campaign. Scott ran out to the ranch
once, that was all l saw of him till
the state convention.
MY train was late and 1 had to
go straight to the auditorium instead
of going home. About 1 o'clock Scott
came in and he said: Why, howdy-
do?' and I said: Why, howdy-do?'
LAS I o'clock drew near the officers
began to gather, and suddenly in their
midst appeared a lone man.
"'That's Scott now the president
remarked. Want to have lunch with
us today?' she asked him. we let II
man in now and then, she explained
to me.
So the lone man took his place at
the table in that atmosphere charged
with platforms and policies and the
fricassee fragrance. L knew that old
hen. raised her myself, said the presi-
dent, by way of salutation to the de-
parted, and I left them as they all
fell to-
"When Mr.. Bryan was to address
the city wherein he had been nomin-
ated the street outside the auditorium
was crowded by $50, and large part
of the crowd consisted of women. Tho
rope was up, protecting the sidewalk,
out in the street they crowded and
pushed and waited. By 6 o'clock it
was raining; no one departed.
"'Gee. I'm glad it's rainin'. the
women'll go now said an urchin who
had tried in vain to wedge his way
to the curb.
"He was mistaken. There were few
umbrellas; plain hats and dress hats,
wells and plumes and tulle were ex-
posed to the elements, and their wear
ers never budged. Perhaps women
would have done the same anywhere;
but thought I detected a different, Il
more purposeful air about these fem
mime citizens who were privileged
to vote for the peerless one, to hear
whom they stood half an hour in IA
pouring rain. Some arrived with the
men pertaining to them, others came
in sober, determined little groups.
Some marched many blocks to accom-
pany Mr.. Bryan to the scene of ac-
ton.
"There-it was somehow different, in
subtle way, from what 1t is at politi-
cal meetings in non-suffrage states.
Here we are merely interested in a
detached way, there the personal equa-
ton enters in.
81 saw women leaning forward to
grasp the bank question more firmly;
they wore the same expression that Is
worn during The Ring by those who
take their Wagner painfully. conscien-
tiously, as a part of their education
rather than as one of the many bless
ings in a blessed world. A tiny woman
in the crowded gallery tearfully begged
her neighbor in front for room to get
one glimpse of that fringed badness
which was cordially bobbing above
an armload of American Beauty roses.
We'll. if 1 can't see him L can vote
for him anyway she consoled herself.
"At the end of the week came the
two great rallies of, by and for the
women voters. I was able to attend
but one; there I found the auditorium
filled to overlooking, men mere islands
here and there in the sea of women.
Pretty girls ushered. Mrs. Sarah
Platt Decker presided with an agree
able jokelet at each introduction, and
besides the male quartet but one or
two mere men We're permitted utter
ance. Women listened to women,
women cheered women. AS we all
crowded out 1 heard my neighbor say:
1T takes those big potatoes so
long to bake through. They ought
to have been in twenty minutes ago."