Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-04-07
FOUR WOMEN LEGISLATORS.
Said to Be Making a Good Record in
the Colorado Assembly.

"Of the present women members of
the assembly Mrs. Alma I.afferty is
filling her second term" says Hamp-
tons. ''She is a member of the Dem
yer Woman's club, is highly educated
and manifestly intelligent.
Her reputation as a public speaker
is so high that she was selected to
nominate for United States senator the
Democratic machine candidate, Robert
T.. Speer. She Is member of half q
dozen important committees, includ-
ing the committee on appropriations.
Mrs. Louise U. Jones, also a stand
pat Democrat, is a well known busi-
ness woman of Denver. BY her own
efforts she has amassed a fortune, and
outside her political activities has
shown ability of no mean order.
Mrs. Louise Kerwin, the third of
the Democratic women representa-
tives, is more interested in certain So
cial reforms than in general party
politics. Her first bill related to i'm
pOrtant reforms in the practice of
ure provided for a legal definition of
the head Of family.
1T made the wife or unmarried
daughter such a head in case the
principal financial support came from
the women. Mrs. Kerwin and her
colleagues have In preparation most
advanced and important measure reg
ulating marriage and making unlawful
the union Of diseased, epileptic, con-
sumptive, imbecle or feeble minded
persons.
THE fourth of the women repre-
sentatives, Mrs. Agnes L. Riddle, Is a
Republican, but no Republican ma
chine is responsible for her appear
ance on the floor of the assembly. The
farmers of three counties-Adams,
Arapahoe and Elbert-united in elect
ing Mrs. Riddle. She Is a farmer and
the wife Of farmer.
Some of these farmers and their
wives call themselves Democrats, but
when Mrs. Riddle is to be voted for,
whether the nomination Is for sec
retary of state grange, superintendent
of her Sunday school or chairman OF
a meeting. almost everybody in her
part of the state gets out and votes
for her
Agnes l.. Riddle comes near being
an institution. Born about forty years
ago Of plain German parents, Mrs
Riddle began early to earn her living
as a nurse in Kansas City. Her dis
trict work brought her in contact
with poverty and suffering and gave
her an inspiration to help others which
has lasted all her life.
when she married and moved to
a ranch in Colorado she by no means
lost her desire to do community ser
vice. She organized rural churches
and Sunday schools. became an officer
Of the grange and was appointed q
member Of the advisory board of the
state agricultural college. She has nc
children Of her own but has adopted
six. three of whom have grown up.
mo man In the Colorado legisla-
ture does as much work as this plain
country woman. She rises before
dawn every morning, takes care OF g
large dairy, cooks and serves break
fast and gets three children off to
school. She drives several miles to
the railroad station and reaches the
assembly chamber before the speaker
calls it to order. All day she sits al
her desk, capably busy in behalf OF
her constituents. At the close Of the
session she attends several committee
meetings and gets back to the farm
in time to see supper on the table"