The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-27
A BULLY TIME.

They had a real jolly, corking time up in old Boston last Tuesday. A big headline in The Boston Traveller reads this way: Police drive 1000 women from Capitol" That has d startling sound and would lead ono to suppose that the women of the city had organ ixed a lynching party and were after the Governor or some of the other State officials. It was on,s a congre- gation of more thar .a thousand wo- men suffragists on the rampage, how ever They were unable to squeeze into any hall or committee room of tho building. So they proceeded to hold a meeting on the front steps of the Cap !tol and the front yard. but the police d,ove them out and they had to pull oft the performance on enc of the public parks of the city ,
 We have heard that Yankee women are somewhat strenuous when their minds are ''sot" on any subject. and the accounts Of this meeting as printed in The Traveller leave little room for doubt, oa the subject They fairly made the welkin and other things ring with fervid oratory and wild applause, and generally gave the Bostonians a specimen of what women can do when they are proper.y aroused on any sub ject. In fact. they seemed almost ready. to initiate, the example of the English suffragettes who stormed the Parliament and created a riot in Lon don not long aGo.
 One of the speakers took advantage of the occasion to take a fall out of one Roosevelt because, as she thought and said he had gone back on his former endorsement of women suffrage. If he goes back as rapidly as he has been going lately" she declared in warm tones, ''he ought to come back from Africa inside one of the lions That was rapping T. R. pretty hard, and perhaps he deserves it. If. how ever. she knows him as we'll as she ought she should know that one of his most prominent and oft-used character istics is his eability to change position on any subject as often as suits him. That is such well-known fact that the speaker should not have been felt or expressed surprise If he has re- nigged on the question of woman suff- | rage.
 All the excitement was over one small word; small in size but large in significance. What they demanded wat that the word male" shall be stricken | from the Constitution of the State. SC that the right to vote shall be free tc l both sexes. Some of the speakers | didn't leave any room for doubt as tc their feelings on the subject. One of them was Miss Rachel Costello, who has never been troubled with a hus- band, and in the course of her remarks she said: They say it would cause trouble in the house if women should l be allowed the Dailot. can tell you II I had a husband who didn't want te l allow me the ballot 1t would certainly cause good deal more trouble In ths' house" From this distance. and not Having tie pleasure of Miss Racifefi acquafntancs we can easily believe what she said.
 Plainly the women had bully tim' at that meeting. Oratory was free ant unconhned. and the reports show tha
 some of them said things that wer' calculated to make the ears of mer' man burn if he had heard them-ant quite a number were taking in the per
 fornianee, They-were fin dead earnest
 and made. 1t plain that what they wan
 and propose to have Is the right to g
 to the polls and vote just as the mel
 do And yet. it is a singular fact tha in those places where women have tn
 right to vote only comparatively fev
 of them avail themselves of the priv
 ilege. Queer. is it. not?