Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1912-01-18

] tOph utltdN ! ne SbItDtSS ItS .itiiss
from the race has about vanished
and everything is now peaceful.
OF course. there WAS mere or les
wild tall following the So. ckDrshi'
race and it was said tina, the gran,
fury would make an INVESTIGATION but
II is believed that the matter viii y,
dropped as there seems 20 be nothing
authentic in any of the rumors thai
We're circulated about the ceiitol or
the day after the Democratic q -,ls.
That thoy will Sc. through tho,r ~!
granting school suffrage 20 women IN
/ this state is the confident belief # the
leaders Of the state TodCra.ioa of
/ Women's Clubs Of Eo0tuofv. Tho
/ board held o meeting her, Thur day
/ and while here thy said IN 81 were
So confident OF getting the hill passed
| that they had ceased to talk about iU
Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Smith. who is
president Of the state Federation
says she has been told by the lea lcrs
Of both sides i'm the present legislature,
that the school suffrage bill will cer-
tainly become a law
When the women have secured
school suffrage. they will come back
10 the legislature and ask for fun sun
rage Mrs Smith is a suffracist full
flcdgcd. although the state Fedora
ton has not gone that far and she
says it is only a question OF a short
time until the women will have the
ballot. with an educational qualifca-
ton, i'm Kentucky The women thus
far have Contented themselves with
asking for limited suffrage
Two years ago when the women ap-
reared before a senate committee ask
ing for school suffrage. Senator Hogg
told them that If they would come
back TO Frankfort in 1912. each with
a baby. time being granted 10 all to
marry. If they were unmarried. he
would vote for the bill This chal.
lenge is TO be answered. and il is
stated that the women will come 70
Frankfort bringing their babies with
them TO help plead for school suffrage.
The women have turned their chal-
lcn@C into a weapon, and will use the
children as exhibits. claiming the right
TO have something to say about who
shall educate them in the public
schools. or course most Of the unmar-
ried women who were here last scs-
sion have not married since but they
will borrow children and members
OF the Federation who have children.
Ghe president. by the way has two)
will storm the senate committee.
Only the preliminary work OF the
present session has been done and bur
little has been accomplished toward
legislation. Those who are leading
the fight for certain bills say that the
work will be done early and not
iammed into the closing DAYS Gov
McCroary is taking active part in the
business OF the present session He
has already let the legislators know
that he does not propose TO sit back
and look on. but will be in the thick
Of the fighting. trying 70 carry through
the Recommendations that he made in
his message. The message was a leng.
thy one and covered many subjects.
so many in TACT that few Of the mem
bers have succeeded I'm crasping all
that the governor touched upon In his
recommendations. When the governor
let IL be known that he wanted Mr.
Terrell elected speaker Of the house
and made determined fcht ~ land
him in the chair. the members knew
fhaF 40 III, 81.
lay figure. but lively individual. de
spite his years. The governor has
told the legislature what he wants Il
10 do. and he proposes 20 see 10 n
that they do as they are told, IL he
can
In his message. Gov. Wilson omitted
all reference to the need OF a new
governors mansion. The governor
knows about the mansion. for he lived
there thirty-six years ago. He said
the other day that when he lived in
the mansion in 1876 il had TO be prop
ped up with boards In the cellar 10
keep It from falling down. so the con.
dition Of the mansion at the present
time may be imagined. When Mrs
Wilson, wife Of the former governor.
was in the mansion she did wonders
with il. and her taste enabled her 10
make ii appear attractive. The dc.
fleets were covered up. and the casual
visitor would not have noticed that
the old building was in need OF repair
Kentucky's first governor lived in that
old mansion. He did not live there
as the first governor the mansion not
having been built until after he went
out, but Isaac Shelby was elected gov
ernor twice. and during his second
term as governor, four years after
he went out OF Office the first time, he
lived in the present mansion.
The new mansion is the pet of
Lieut.. Gov. Ed McDermott. He says
Gov. McCreary feels hesitancy
abont asking for a new mansion in
which he is TO live, so Gov. McDermott
is doing all the falling about a new
mansion. He has referred 10 this
in several addresses which he has
made recently, notably the address he
delivered IN ta.ilg. bis scat as pgosid-
Ing officer of the senate. He says Ken
lucky, which is practically ont of debt,