Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-24
CANDIDATE FOR RECORDER IN
WRIGHT COUNTY TELLS OF
EXPERIENCES.
GOT FIGHTING MAD MANY
TIMES DURING CAMPAIGN
Woman Whose Candidacy Many Look.
ed Upon as Joke Swept County in
Primary-Met With Many AMUSING
Experiencos-Tslls Of Some Of the
Disadvantages Of Her Sex in Politics.
ecial to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Clarion, Sept 24.-One of the most
unique figures in Iowa politics today.
yet one that must be reckoned with.
not only at the present time, but in the
future. is Carrie Vaughn Anderson, of
Clarion. She has won her first spurs
in securing a nomination for office, and
as surely as November comes. and
she Is living, she will be elected re-
corder of Wright county.
She is the only woman, so far as is
known. who is a public advocate OF
the farmers cooperative movement.
with not only giving strength in Iowa
but turnout the great northwest
Most all her time is now taken up in
attending their annual meetings and
conventions and delivering addresses.
She knows the farm as she knows her
books; knows how to tell the soil and
judge Of the merits Of stock. She is
practical, and the great success she
is achieving is due largely to the spirit
in which she enters her work.
But it is in politics where she is
just now the shining the brightest. And
she belongs to the progressive element.
for that is in every fibre Of her being
Her opponent in Wright county has
not yet rallied from the shock of his
defeat and the ease with which the re-
suit was accomplished She was up
against a practiced politician. shrewd.
alert. and withal popular She went
into the canvass single handed and
alone. She had a lofty ideal of political
obligation, was an inspiring speaker.
and undefatigable worker. and when
she would touch upon her duty to her
forefathers' children. when she con-
cluded her appeal. the voters were for
Carrie Vaughn Anderson She carried
seventeen out of twenty-five precincts
in her county.
Tells of Campaign.
"My opponent and other interested
parties. told me that l was not onto the
game, knew nothing of political condi-
tons and the wires that were necessary
70 pull to get preferment, and that I
was not acquainted with the men who
controlled the vote in the various
townships
Il informed them all. as politely as
1 could under the circumstances, that
the day was passing When one man
could control the vote of a whole town
ship, and promptly proceeded to see
the voters personally.
i made all the towns before going
into the country districts The hard
est part Of the whole campaign was
in talking to the first few men I met,
but l soon became accustomed to the
spiel and enjoyed it immensely for a
time. The manner in which different
men considered the matter Of my can
cidacy was rather amusing.
Some of the men We're absolutely
opposed to women holding office 9TH
ers were sympathizers of the suffrage
movement. while in others the person.
al note was struck, and they promised
10 support.
Got Fighting Mad.
Il am sorry to have to say So but
because of the attitude Of the more
ignorant men 1 met in saying: What
CO women know about voting, any
way: Their place is in the home
My pugnacious feeling was not so
much because Of their opposition to
women in politics, but their own m
ability to comprehend the obligation
Of the franchise. They had no fixed
political principles. Like Bernard
Shaw, who was making a rambling
political speech when he was inter-
rupted by a voter. who called out:
What are your political principles.
anyhow Shaw replied: have no
principles. 1 make them up as go
along
MANY told me that because they
were democrats they couldn't vote for
me When I asked them why they
were democrats, they answered.:
Because dad was
"a great many men wanted to know
whether 1 was a 'standpatter' or a
fprogressive,' 1 had no difficulty in
telling them what l was, and why.
Il made my campaign thru the
country districts by livery team and
automobile. and found the farmers
very like the men in towns. altho
the farmers were in the main buster
than the town dwellers. They were
engaged with their blowing and pant
ing, and hadn't much time to talk poll
tics, which the town man can nearly
always find time to do. 1t is in way
a deplorable fact that farmers haven't
the time to become closer students of
politics.
"a farmer was blowing in a field
when he saw me coming toward him.
He waited for me with wide open
mouth and eyes. and when I had fin
ished telling him why 1 was there, he
asked: BY gosh. do women run for
Office the same as men?' When 1 as
sured him it was even so. that women.
not being allowed to vote or help
make the laws. naturally had to do
their cain pa is ming in rne e"'ne man
ner as the men. he said enthusiastic
ally: Lady, you have sure got my
vote
can old farmer to whom I was in
|troduced, heard what I had to say,
with twinkle in his eye, and said.