Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-28
CHAMPIONS CAUSE
OF SUFFRAGISTS
Head of Political Equality League
Challenges Mrs. Cas-
wells Statement
REFERS TO COLORADO VOTE
Denies That Ballots of Ignorant
Women Would NuIIify
Those of Educated
REFERS TO COLORADO VOTE

Challenging the statement of Mrs.
George A. Casweu, president OF the
Southern California Association OPP
posed to the Ballot for Women maze
october 10, when it was organized,
that the vote of each intelligent ana
educated woman would be nuIllnSu
nv that of perhaps fifty women who
are neither educated nor decent, II
women voted in California, j. II. Braly
has sent The Herald a protest against
the assertion. Mr.. Brady is president
of the Political Equality league HIS
letter follows:
editor Herald: The president Of
the Anti-Suffrage organization maze
very remarkable statement as given
in The Herald of October II. l quote
it verbatim:
According to present arrange
ments. the vote of every intelll-
gent and educated woman would
be nulHfed by that Of perhaps
fifty women who were neither ed
ucated nor decent.
STATEMENT IS CHALLENGED
"Now the president of the organiza-
tion referred to is lady Of wide ac-
uuaintance and high social and liter
arv standing. Naturally, therefore,
many people will pause to consider such
a statement as that from lady OF
such standing in the community L
have refrained from commenting upon
il. hODing the statement did the lady
Injustice, and that it would be denied
or corrected, neither of which has &C
cured, at least to my knowledge, L
feel, therefore, that on account OF the
high source from which the public
statement emanated that it should no
longer go unchallenged.
ANALYZEs STATEMENT
1.-THE statement is unquestionably
susceptible to only two meanings.
First, it must mean there are fifty Wo-
men in California who are not educat-
ed and decent for every one who is both
intelligent and educated; or, secondly,
the indecent and uneducated women
would all vote if they had the ballot,
while the thousands of intelligent and
educated women would not.
"Tf the first was the meaning or the
distinguished lady it was a most I'M
gracious comment upon the character
of our California women, and requires
no ans--er. If the latter, then it is
inevitable that the lady is utterly un-
acquainted with present day facts on
the subject of Women's voting. The
records and figures all prove that as
large a percentage of women vote as
do men in our four free states, Wyom-
ing, Colorado, Utah and Idaho.
GENERAL HAL.E's ARGUMENT
General Irving p. Hale of Denver
states that:
The largest majorities for wo-
men suffrage were given in the
most intelligent cities, and in the
best precincts of each city, while
the heavy majorities against it
We're in the precincts controlled by
the debased and laWless classes,
and the lowest grade of machine
politicians, who rely on herding
the depraVed Vote-shoWing that
these elements dreaded the effect of
woman suffrage, and realized the
falsity Of the argument that it
would increase the immoral and
comfortable vote.
THE result has demonstrated
their fear was we'll founded and
that this argument is diametrlcally
opposed to actual results.
80 far as | have been able to
Judge by observation of elections
and analysis of returns, more wo-
men vote in the better districts
than in the slums, and the pro-
portion of reuned and intelligent
voters to the ignorant ana de-
PRAYED is larger among women
than among men,"