The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-05
Americas Only Woman Mayor, Mrs
EIla Wilson.

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was refused by direct vote Of the PEG
pie.
The next backgrounds after Oregon.
Wisconsin. Kansas and Nevada will be
the sovereign States of Iowa, Michigan,
Montana. Illinois. Nebraska. and Maine,
whose legislatures have recently given
the woman's rights generals encour-
aSement by supporting the equal suf-
rage amendment proposition by a ma
)ority vote, although their Constitu-
lions call for a greater division. In the
North Dakota Legislature a change of
only two votes would have carried the
measure at the last test.
Indeed. the equal suffragists lain
that progress was shown by the last
test even In the Massachusetts, Legis-
%lature, where a gain of fifteen votes
was obtained, as well as IL. the New
York. Connecticut, New Hampshire,
Rhode Island, Ohio, Indiana, Arkansas
ana Minnesota Legislatures, where they
obtained favorable reports from one or
both committees in charge of their
measure.
Women Vote In Thirty-Two states.
We have been speaking thus far of
full woman suffrage. upon an exact
equality with men. 1t will be surpris-
Ing to many readers to learn that
twenty-siN States and n~ear-States al
ready grant partial suffrage to women.
which runs the total of States in which
women vote up to thirty-two.
In Kansas they may already vote for
munich al officers, as well as upon
deed. Kansas has lately gained fame
through her Lady Mayoress" of
Hunnewell, who. with her lady chief
of police" has suffered various tribula-
tons at the hands of a hostile City
Council.
Women may vote upon school and
tax questions in Montana, Michigan. lit
tie Delaware, and even the great En-
pire State. New York.
And our sisters are allowed to vote
on school questions in Oklahoma,
Arizona, New Mexico. Oregon, Nebras-
ka. Kentucky. the Dakotas, Minnesota,
Wisconsin. Illinois. Ohio. New Jersey,
and the whole of New England except
Maine and Rhode Island.
Just as there are some States that
grant our sisters both school and tax
suffrage, and others that allow them
only school suffrage, there are still
others granting tax suffrage alone.
these being Iowa and Louisiana. Then
in Mississippi and Arkansas they are
given minor rights of franchise.
Women O~nicehoIders
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low woman suffrage as a logical Sc
quence. Thus, Colorado now has four
woman "honorables" in It's Legislature
Mrs. Louise Kerwin, social reformer;
Mrs. Louise Jones, business woman;
Mrs. Alma Lafferty (second term), the
orator lately selected to nominate the
Democratic candidate for United States
Senator, and Mrs. Agnes Riddle. a farm
er's wife who cooks the family break
fast and who lately presided over q
stormy session of the House of Repre-
sentatives. And the Wyoming Legis-
ture has a woman member. Mrs. Mary
Bellamy. hen there are the aforesaid
lady Mayoress of Hunnewell, Kan. Mrs.
Ella Wilson. and it's chief of police,
Mrs. Rose Osborn. Note thai the pre-
fix of Mrs" is a prerequisite 70 fe-
minnie oficeholding in the woman suf-
frage States. where our sisters do not
appear to reach the apex of their poll
teal popularity Until they cease to be
possible rivals in matrimonial cam
paigns.
He-SuRrngettes and
Two interesting classes of agitators
have been brought into being as the re-
suit of this nationwide votes for wo-
mem campaign. These are the he
s~uffragettes" and the woman-antis."
While the battle was raging in Cali
fornia a retired millionaire OF Pasa-
ucna organized II league of he-Suffra-
gettes. which, while banqueting the
state officers and Legislature tickled
their ears with arguments for the lady
vote as well as their palafes with the
choicest viands OF the golden West.
And there are he-suffragette clubs, not
only In such Western and Middle West
ern cities as Los Angeles. Denver, Sioux
Falls. Detroit. Des Moines, Lincoln and
Cleveland. but in Eastern cities such as
Buffalo, Baltimore, Providence and even
Boston and New York. There is one
also among the students OF Harvard
University. In the suffragette parade
through New York there was n bat
talon of men. 100 strong, who. although
hooted and jeered by their brothers on
the sidewalks, marched on ~undaunted
beneath their banner bearing the de-
vice:
There is a sweeter word than home
and love; that word is liberty"
Among these male champions of
equal suffrage besides Senator La
Toilette. the aforementioned, are Will
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