The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-17
SUFFRAG|sIs
and v. G. I. U.
temperance and Votes for Women
Hold the Boards at Wednesdays
Program at Hamilton
chautauqua.
BENNETT WAS GOOD
Barton o. Aylesworth Spoke for Votes
for Women Dunbars Give Fine
Pretddes-cIrI Wins
Medal.
BENNETT WAS GOOD

ton chautauqua was another good one.
The scrowds attending the programs
are being repaid hundred fold for
going and seem to realize 1t for they
are getting bigger every day. Yester-
days crowd in the afternoon COM
fortably flied the big tent and the
evening crowd filed 1t to overfowing.
The afternoon program divided its
features, the program being under the
auspices of the w. G.. T. u. and the
Equal Suffrage association. The W. C.
j T. e, part OF the program consisted of
the Demarest diamond medal con-
test. there being six contestants for
the trophy The winner of diamond
medal dKered was Miss Grace Null
Of CHARLOTTESVILLE, and her subject was
"a Defense of the Drunkard" Miss
MdY handled her Grafton very skill
fully and in the minds Of judges she
was the best OF the six. Mr.. Guy
Sanders of Powellton, gave as his
selection "Old Soapy.' Mr.. Sanders
+, Grafton taken from dramatic stand
! point was the best, but in some ways
.vhe failed to come up to the winner
The other contestants and their sub
jects were: 1.-THE Fathers Prayer
Ruth burrows, Fountain Green town
ship; Baptized in Blood" Hazel
Erwin, Carthage; Sacrifice the Vic
tory Spirit Ethel shoup, Bentley;
Personal Liberty or Civil Liberty
Joy Cutler, Carthage. Miss Mazda
Northup and Miss Esther Reed were
to have taken part but could not. Miss
Northup is i'll and Mr.. Sanders and
Miss Hull were chosen yesterday to
take the places of the two who failed
to appear. The contest is under the
direction of the w. C. t. u. of Han
cock county. The officers are Hattie
NJ. Bolton, president, Mrs. Ida Parr.
vire president; Mrs. Eva Northup,
secretary; Mrs. Clara Williams, treas
urer. The judges were L. B. Clark,
Evasion, Mrs. O. c. Mccartney,
Hamilton, Mrs. Lizzie Waggoner. Ham
ilton. Besides getting the diamond
medal the wi lner is entitled to a
years scholarship in Columbia school
OF oratory.
The Suffrage Program.
Barton O. Aylesworth, womans'
h rights man, personal friend of Judge
Lindsay of Denver spoke on Woman
Suffrage. He said:
In the past sixty-seven years wom-
an has made greater advancement
than any of my sex have made in the
armies of women today, the women s
club and the w. c, T. U. AMI they
have marshaled themselves under
the banners OF God They are lend
ing to the new democracy, the mi
tiative, referendum and the recall are
the coming part of our real democracy
Under the new democracy govern.
ment has as much to do with your
boy standing before the saloon as they
have with the licensed hell behind the
doors. When the women come to
vote in this great state, the saloons
will be closed. The new democracy
means that government is coming tc
esthe door. Of your house. 1t has to dc
with gas, electricity, coal, it has to dc
witt the public schools and highways
When you remember that there are
five women, Mrs. Sage, Helen Gould
Anne Morgan, Mrs. Belmont and Mrs
Macley, who in the future will have
two billions to spend. and that the,
have promised it all to the needs Of
society, then can't you see the promise
Of the democracy?
''You ask If the women of Colorado
are not more masculine because Of