The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1910-09-29
COUNTY Run By WOMEN.
Young Widow Campaigns I'm Buggy.
Only One Fair Candidate IL
Defeated

Only One Fair Candidate is
Defeated.
Cottonwood Falls. Kas. Sept. IT:
!. Women office-seekers have be-
come so numerous and have been
SO successful in Chase, one of the
big cattle counties of the State,
that the men apear to be on the
run from many of the more import
ant county offices. At no time dur
ing the last four years have there
been fewer than two women office
holders and the court house has
been full of women deputies. About
the only places in the court house
that have not had women in them
are the offices of the sheriff, super
intendent of public instruction and
woman register OF deeds, they
have women deputies in the offices
of clerk of district court, county
treasurer, probate judge and county
clerk
Four women candidates took part
in the recent primary campaign,
two being widows. There were Miss
Anna Arnold. Miss Gussie Houston,
Mrs. Bertha Plummer and Mrs.
Hattie Smith.
So popular are the women in
Chase county, which is strongly Re-
publican, that Miss Arnold, a DEM
ocrat, was permitted to take a REL
nomination without opposition. She
is now seeking a third term. Two
years ago she was renominated
without opposition. She has filled
her office so satisfactorily, and
made such a good impression on
the young ranchmen comprising a
large percentage of the voting pop
ulation of the county, that she was
given a third term nomination at
the primary election by her party.
Miss Houston is a pretty stenog-
rapher Of twenty-four years. She
made the race for the nomination
for clerk of the district court on
the Republican ticket and won by a
, vote of 523 to 259. She made her
. campaign on horseback, riding
alone over the great stretches Of
Observation-Disclosures and climbing the
E inumerable hills. visiting the young
= rsnchmen at their cattle ranches
and winning their favor by her ex-
= pert horsemanship.
Mrs. Bethea Plummer is a young
widow. She. too, was a Republican, a,
r and the political plum which she
8 was trying to pluck was Register of
8 Deeds. Accompanied by her little
i daughter, she made a thorough can
4 vass Of the county in an open-top
r buggy. She would frequently start
! from her home at Strong City on
Monday morning and spend the en-
tire week campaigning. She saw
practically everyone in each neigh
borhood, and the ranchers opened
their hospitable homes to her for
, nights lodging wherever she hap
J pened to be when night came on.
She was treated SO well that her
"Old Dobbin" came out Of the cam
pdi6h SiCShSi ldIltT LHdu when
he started.
Only one of the women candidates
was defeated-Mrs. Hattie Smith.
She ran for Register of Deeds and
her opponent was a woman. A wo-
mans defeat was necessary, as two
could not have the same office. She
; is the present Register of Deeds.
having been appointed a year ago to
fill the unexpired term of Mrs.
Mona Goodreau, who dealt woman 8
suffrage and the business woman
idea a hard blow by giving up her
, office to marry the chairman of
the Democratic County Central Com.
, mittee.
r Because these women have sue
3 ceeded in wrestling their nomina-
: tions from their opponents does not
8 mean that they will sit down quiet
I ly till after election. Each Is plan
ming a strenuous campaign and
n expects to put in hard work be-
t tween now adm the November elec.
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