The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-01-26
Mrs. Decker of Colorado
May Yet Sit in Upper
House.
SUGGESTION WAS STARTLING
But Has Gained Favor in all
Parts of the
State.
Under New Primary Law
She Can Easily Get in
Running.

Denver, Jan. 26.-Berore Colorado
dreamed anything so Utopian as n
practical primary Iaw. Mrs. Sarah
PIatt Decker was talked Of for Con-
grcss.
Women who stood back Of Mrs.
pecker in 1903, when her namo was
formally presented to some vistors
rom the International Council OF
women as q Congressional possibility.
arc calling to mind the excitement
that that announcement made.
IN less than three years public feel
ing has experienced a complete
change. While thero was something
positively startling about the sugges-
tlon then, Mrs. Decker now stands
before the people as a Senatorial
probability.
Inc suggestion OF Mrs Decker for
the United states Senate has been re-
celVed throughout the state with re-
spcct ana interest o.. is no longer n
freak notion and IL Is taking hold Of
the people more and mo-e every day
1T would have been practically inn
possible to give the voters Of COL
orado the opportunity 10 vote on Mrs
Decker had the primary bill failed to
carry. She is not smiled upon by the
machine, which controls both par
les Her politics has been a clean
game Under the operation of the
primary law any 800 of her friends
can by petition have her name placed
on the ticket at the primary election.
Ihat nomination would. in tho
opinion Of those familiar with Mrs.
Deckers personality and ability. be
equivalent TO an election at the polls
in November
There would then be merely the
iormaitty Of confirming this election
by the nineteenth general assembly.
The legislators elected Will, unde-.the
primary law, be required TO take one
OF two pledges in connection with the
election Of United states Senators
They may either swear to abide b.
a Senator. or they may vote FOR tho
the popular choice in the selection OF
candidate in their own party who has
polled the highest number of votes.
IL was when some representatives. OF
the International Council of Women
were In Denver in July. 1909, that
Mrs Harriet G. r. Wright now
president OF the Colorado Equal Suf-
frago sociation-announced that
the women of Colorado would work
to secure the election Of woman to
Congress In 1912.
Lady Chrystal Mcmillan made bold
to ask on whom the forces of the
women would be concentrated, and
was told unqualihedly that it would
be Mrs Sarah Plat Decker. That
news spread across the water to
whore the English women are maxi
ing their fight Miss Sylvia Pank-
hurst was the guest OF Mrs. Decker
on her trip to Denver last year.
Mrs. Decker herself. i'm an address
on "The Women of the State-a Com
mercial Asset" told the Chamber oh
Commerce a year ago that she advo-
Gated a woman for Mayor of Denver
Since then affairs have so shaped
themselves in both of the dominant
parties as to indicate that Mrs. Deck
er can be elected 10 a considerably
higher officer than Mayor OF the city
of Denver.
The campaign which friends Of Mrs.
Decker are waging is being conducted
very quietly, but in IT will be engaged
ultimately some Of tho most widely
known suffrage workers in the entire
country