The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-20


If you dosI'll have the polls closed
and notice posted, Closed: Women
Inundated by the Police Then
the election will swing my way. You
will not dare to make a martyr of
that woman
You know that woman is crazy
said the policeman.
Certainly said I.
Then why have you got her
there said he.
Because she is crazy, said |.
Then we went off and left her to
her work"
How Women Sell Their Influence.
Election day | asked number of
the wet" workers why they were
against temperance. One of them,
middle-aged woman, with two
daughters and son, said: II don't
believe in saloons, but the business
people want them, and the City Hall
wants them, and there's money for
me In working for them--so why OPP
pose them?" She was not exception
al; there were thousands like her.
Such women won the election, two
to one, for the saloons
One woman told me she had
started to work for the "wets," but
was later out for the "drys.' She
was very pretty, very smartly gown
ed. | asked her why she had chang
ed.
Why" she said, the vets gave
me seven dollars and half two
days ago, and | was for them all
right, but this morning found they
had given my sister ten dollars, and
now ! am for the 'drys.
At that moment the wet" man
ager came up, quietly handed her
five dollars, chatted pleasantly for
a few moments, and passed on.
How about it now I asked the
girl "Still for the 'drys?'"
mo, sir she said. I'm out
for the vets now-and just wait
till tell Jane"
You'll lose Jane" I said to the
Don't worry about that he re-
piled, wise in his woman-suffrage
wisdom 81 slipped Jane two-fifty
at the same time. | can't imagine
how 7 ever got mixed there. 1t will
take lot of explaining to haul the
price in that family down to ten
dollars next election
All Political Women Have Lost
Something.
A little later, in one of the most
exclusive polling places, ! talked with
one of the highest officials in Denver
The votes were being cast in gar
age Women were driving up In
heir automobiles, and were being
to the ballot-box by theil
husbands, brothers, fathers and
friends. All looked perfectly orderly
md respectable. But out in tho
street., two girl workers, smartly
dressed were seated In carriage
With their feet poised on the opposite
,eat. nibbling the candy just handed
hem by the manager on his rounds
md chatting familiarly with ever
male hanger-on that came along.
Don't fail to look below the SUI
ace" said the official. when any
me tells you that women mixing
politics help any tell him he has m
eal knowledge of the subject. !
his election about thousand wome
re being paid as workers, and AZ
more women as sitting as officials
he polling places. Every single on
# those women has lost something
hat indefinable something that Dug
O set her apart | wonld no mo
hink of letting my wife or daughte
.Ome here to WORK tnan | WOu
hink of taking poison into t
,itchen.'
st is inevitable" continued til
political manager, and ! may w
lose with his words, as the m
lands high in Denver's political c
les and voices the opinion that
ound was held by many: 1T
inevitable" he said, that WON
hould lose not only their finend
ut also their characters when tn
nix in politics They cannot see
anne as we do, MOI because II
re mentally inferior, for T. do
elieve they are, but because n
ack the experience in affairs.
ian suffrage in this State is j
rhen it is not shame. Hi
linded men ignore the woman vot
D low-minded men she is-well.
sss said about that the BETTER