The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-04-05
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

| BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.
ION account of the defects of the
! post office system which caused spe
cial delivery letter, containing an &C
count of the convention of the Wo
mems Franchise League of Indiana
written by the special representative
of the Palladium, mailed in Indiana.
+, polls at twenty minutes to twelve
| Wednesday night and received in the
f; Palladium office at half past seven
o'clock on Thursday evening, when it
| should have been received at about
six in the morning, the expected spe-
cial news of the convention did not
appear here yesterday, some of it be-
ing now necessarily omitted since it is
"old news"
The writer's compliments to Post
master General Hitchcock on his adj
mirable system which takes a special
delivery letter almost twenty-four
hours to travel seventy miles on a
straight line between two of the prin-
cipal cities of the state)
One of the most surprising things
dDOul Luc SohS VI IhC .
Franchise League of Indiana was a
statement made by the gentlemanly
Mr.. Fairbanks in his welcoming ad-
dress.
81 have never" said Mr.. Fairbanks,
"said a word about a political oppon-
ent behind his back that I would not
have said to his facet"
And the roof of the Claypool remain
ed intact
While this, to be sure, had little to
do with the enfranchisement of wo-
man, it was none-the-less worth jour-
neying from the outlying districts to
hear.
Although the Ex-President gave ut
terance to other pungent and epigram-
matte statements and INDUCED in the
usual brand of alleged and moth-eaten
humour with which notable and ele-
CANT celebrities enliven their discourse
before women's organizations, this
may be said to have been Mr.. Fair
banks oratorical piece de resistance.
Another surprising thing was the
presence of representatives from over
the state-not only from the sup
posedly most enlightened sections but
from those which have been looked
upon as wallowing in crudity, ignor-
ance and crassness.
Brown county, the butt of the para
grapher's wit and the never failing
source of supply for the cartoonist,
was more ably represented than SUM-
dry of the centres of alleged culture.
The chairman from that pictures
que, il unjustly lampooned county,
made one of the best speeches of the
If she proved to be one of the bunga-
low population of that section of the
state and the wife of Will Vawter, the
we'll known illustrator, that was Meth
er an argument for or against.
She stated that in Nashville, Brown
capital, but three anti-suffra-
gists were known. That all the mascu-
line population of that interesting Dor
ough were for woman's suffrage and
no opposition existed.
This certainly speaks well for a
town without a railroad.
Maybe, after all railroads are not so
much fore-runners of civilization as
promoters and patriots so eloquently
declaim. However that may be 'the
lady from Nashville" was one of the
hits of the convention.
For one thing she was witty and
For another, interesting because of
some conspicuity she has recently at
tracted through her effort to have dis
barment proceedings brought against
a member of the Bartholomew County
bar on account of what she states was
illegal procedure.
That there is a strong sentiment in |
favor of woman's acknowledgements |
Indiana is evident from I
this convention.