The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1912-01-10

VIII talh lOllOWlue INC ot~--H~
race and It was said that the grand
jury would make an investigation, but
It is believed that the matter will be
dropped as there seems to be nothing
authentic in any Of the rumors that
were circulated about the capitol on
the day after the Democratic caucus.
That they will get through their bill
granting school suffrage to women in
this state is the confident belief OF the
leaders OF the State Federation Of
Women's Clubs Of Kentucky. The
board held a meeting here Thursday,
and while here they said they were
so confident OF getting the bill passed
that they had ceased to talk about It.
Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Smith, who Is
president OF the State Federation,
says she has been told by the leaders
Of both sides in the present legislature,
that the school suffrage bill will GER
tainly become q law.
When the women have secured
school suffrage, they will come back
to the legislature and ask for full sun
rage. Mrs. Smith is suffragist full
fiedged, although the State Fedora
ton has. not gone that far and she
says 1t is only a question OF a short
time until the women will have the
ballot, with an educational qualifica-
ton, in Kentucky. The women thus
far have oontented themselves with
asking for limited suffrage
Two years ago when the women ap-
peared before a senate committee ask
ing for school suffrage, Senator Hogg
told them that IL they would come
back to Frankfort in 1912, each with
baby. time being granted to all to
marry, II they were unmarried, he
would vote for the bill. This chal-
lenge is to be answered, and it is
stated that the women will come to
Frankfort bringing their babies with
them to help plead for school suffrage.
The women have turned their chal-
lenge 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. OF course most Of the unmar-
ried women who were here last SEES
sion have not married since, but they
will borrow children and members
Of the Federation who have children,
(the president, by the way has two)
will storm the senate committee.
Only the preliminary work Of the
present session has been done and but
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.
McCreary 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 to carry through
the recommendations that he made in
his message. The message was leng-
thy one and covered many subjects,
so many in fact that few of the men,
beTs have succeeded in grasping all
that the governor touched upon in his
recommendations. When the governor
let it be known that he wanted Mr..
Terrell elected speaker of the house
and made a determined fight to land
him in the chair, the members knew
that the governor was not simply a
lay figure, but q lively individual, de-
spite his years. The governor has
fOld the Iaofu1of,,ra x.yhaf ha uranta a.
to do. and he proposes to see to it
that they do as they are told, II 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 1t had to be prop
ped up with boards in the cellar to
keep 1t 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 it, and her taste enabled her to
make It appear attractive. The de-
'ects 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 a hesitancy
about asking for a new mansion In
which he is to live, so Gov. McDermott
is doing all the talking about a new
mansion. He has referred to this
in several addresses which he has
made recently. notably the address he
delivered in taking his seat as presid-
ing officer Of the senate. He says Ken
lucky. which is practically out of debt,
capitol. should have a mansion for
the governor. that would be in keeping
with the reputation of the state.
Peter Lee Anterior, probably the
one millionaire who has ever been in
the Kentucky legislature, certainly the
only one in recent years, is keeping
house, by his lonesome. in one Of the
finest homes in Frankfort, which he
rented furnished for the session. Mr..
Atherton came to the legislature to
look after good roads and school inn
provement which are his hobbies, but
he wanted home life as well. He said
he could not stand a hotel for three
months, so he secuted about and found
the kind Of a house he wanted. He
brought up from Louisville a good cook
and some servants, and now is living
like he lives at home.