The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-03-25
A WOMAN FOR GOVERNOR
Ebert Hubbard Thinks That Women
Could Not Do Worse Than
Men

Bryan runs for office, but Martha lets
the office hike to her.
Marilla would make an ideal COVER
nor.
She has courage, brains, education,
tact, experience, and is as honest as
the daylight.
One thing certain, Marilla knows her
own mind concerning the rights of
women.
Governor Hughes says men have
rights, but women have only privileges.
However, we electrocuted woman
in New York state few months ago.
She left baby six months old. We
waited until the baby was born and old
enough to wean, and then we strapped
the mother in chair and turned on
the current.
Only men were present-the spec
tacle was for men only"
1t is nice to be polite to ladies.
When the man who officiated slit the
woman's dress so the electrode might
touch her knee he apologized.
The woman about to die smiled
family, and said, Don't mention it."
She was brave soul-or a stupid
one-and died like hero, saying she
didn't mind leaving the world, save for
her baby. Mother love seems to sur
vive everything-even the fear of death.
AS she sucked the man-child in her
cell for the last time the little thing
looked up in her face, cooed and
laughed, with drop of milk on its
baby nose.
Governor Hughes was importuned to
commute the woman's sentence to life
imprisonment. He refused to inter
| fere.
So Justice was satisfied and the wo-
man was electrocuted.
Governor Hughes didn't do it him
self. He would not.
He could have stopped the other
fellow doing it. But he didn't.
1t was a man turned the key.
No woman could have been hired to
do it.
She was a poor, ignorant simple
soul. She killed her husband, so to
live with her lover. Her lover was the
father of her baby, too, the boy baby
that cooed and laughed, with the drop
Of milk on his pug nose.
This baby really had no right to be
born, but God ought not to be too
hard on him, since it wasn't the baby's
fault.
This woman gave her heart to her
lover. 1t was very terrible in her to
kill her husband, even though he used
to beat her.
But when Governor Hughes let the
gentlemen strap her in the chair that
didn't bring back the dead man.
She killed the man in her passion.
But Governor Hughes and the state
OF New York allowed this woman to be
killed in cool, calm, deliberate and
premeditated manner.
She killed the man, and they initial
ed her act and killed her.
When Roosevelt was governor of
New York woman was hanged.
They slipped moose about her
neck and dropped her through trap,
and the rope strangled her scream as
her body swirled and swung.
But first they tied her skirts down so
she couldn't kick and expose her
stockings.
The Judge that tried her and the
twelve jurymen were men-it was all
strictly buck.
The sheriff who hanged her was a
man. No woman in the world would
hang another woman. Even the most
depraved woman, when it comes to
showdown, will divide her crust with
sister.
Governor Hughes wouldn't interfere,
because Roosevelt hadn't under like
conditions.
Both Hughes and Roosevelt believe
that when woman sins she should
have mans pay--and more.
Really, now, since a woman must
obey the law or be hanged or electro
cuted, shouldn't she be allowed to ex-
press her political preferences as to the
governor who has the power of killing