The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-10-26
WOMEN WILL VOTE.
Los Angeles, California

To the Register.
As the attention of the whole coun-
try has been turned toward this state
during the past week, perhaps a letter
from this locality may be of some
interest. BY the election of last year,
the control of the state was taken
from the machine politicians and the
S. p. Railroad Company and placed
in the hands of the progressives. The
was in harmony with the idea of re
storing the government to the hands
of the people. Accordingly, a series
of amendments to the state constitu-
ton was proposed making the state
more truly a democracy. There were
t~wenty-three of these amendments
and, at the election last Tuesday,
everyone was adopted. Among them
were the initiative, referendum, recall,
equal suffrage, and others giving
more power to the public in con-
trolling corporations. The recall,
which includes the judges Of the
courts. received the largest majority
of all, and equal suffrage carried by
the smallest. Indeed, for sometime
it was thought to be defeated, but
later returns from outlying districts
changed the vote to a safe majority
for the amendments. Los Angeles
gave equal suffrage 5000 majority
while San Francisco gave a large ma
jority against it.
Already, the women have begun to
register in large numbers so as to
be qualified to vote at the city cleo
ton which will be held in December.
This very effectively the
argument advanced against equal
suffrage that women do not want to
vote. Equal Suffrage Clubs have been
changed to Civic Clubs to study ques-
tons pertaining to civil government
thus showing that women will vote
as intelligently as men if not more
so.
Another important event during the
past week was the visit of President
Taft. His day in this city was a
strenuous one, arriving at $3.50 a. m.
he passed through the principal
streets of the city accompanied by
divisions of infantry, cavalry, detach-
ments of police, also by the Governor
of the state, mayor of the city and
other officials carried in thirty auto
mobiles. The parade visited Washing
ton Park where 10000 school children
with waving flags had assembled to
greet the president of the United
States. He greeted them with a few
appropriate words and also spoke
briefly to the crowds outside the Park.
He then passed on to the auditorium
where he delivered the principal ad-
uIcoo VI Iut udy, dClChuihS Hio F0tO
acts and other policies. At the close
of this address, he was taken to Pasa-
dena stopping on the way to dedicate
the new concrete bridge over the
Los Angeles River by breaking a
bottle of Owens River water and
speaking a few appropriate words.
He also spoke briefly to the students
of Occidental college, then was taken
to the Maryland Hotel for lunch at
which about 500 sat down to one
table arranged in the form of a flag.
to Los Angeles in the after
noon, he addressed a meeting of col
ored citizens who presented him with
a golden tablet in commemoration
of what he had done for their race.
In the evening he attended a BAN
quet at Hotel Alexandria at which
United States Senator Flint
was POSTMASTER and present Senator
Works made one of the principal ad-
dresses. President Taft spent the
night with his sister, Mrs. DR.. Ed
wards, who lives in this city.
The president certainly received a
royal welcome, whether he advanced
his prospects for reelection is not
so evident. AS one leading paper ex-
pressed it, His audiences were re-
spectful but unconvinced."
President has many admirers as a
man, but there is a very prevalent
that as president he has made
many mistakes.