The daily sentinel., 1912-08-30
LADIES SEEKING
OFFICE HAVE
MANY FRIENDS
Sentinel Special Service.

Sentinel Special Service.
Denver, Aug. 30.-The coming
primary election brings about a pc
culiar condition of affairs, political
ly. not only in Denver but elsewhere
throughout the state, in that there
is said to be little general hustling
in the interest Of any special eandi-
date, with only few exceptions.
The exceptions are the candidates
for governor and United States SEN
ators. For these nominations there
is considerable enthusiastic work be-
ing done by the candidates them
selves, with possibly the exception
of Governor Thomas, who has no op-
position. OF course, some of the
state candidates are making can
yass in their own interests in some
counties; but, as a general PROPOSE
ton, there is much unconeern being
shown by those seeking office-dem-
ocrats and republicans alike.
The only quarter where there is
more than the usual interest being
shown for candidates is that of the
women politicians. They are up and
doing-but for the female office
seekers. Lively skirmishing is be-
ing done by members of the FEEDER
ated Women's Club of the state in
behalf of at least three of their can
didates who want a state portfolio
They are Mrs. Katherine Williamson,
for congress-; Harriet G. r. Wright.
for state senator, and Lillian Hart
man johnson, for state auditor. All
three are being vigorously boosted
by the women voters, and especially
by the women of Denver. Head
quarters of the club women in Dem
" In N ti~afr rtFasr tn
ports from over the state that the
women candidates are going to have
substantial support among many
of the union laborists. Along this
line some of the best women cam
paigners have been quietly working
in the interest of women candidates,
and the report is given out here that
they will get favorable support
even among the men voters.
Mrs. Williamson is considered one
of the brightest women in the state,
and she is developing strength that
is said to be phenomenal and which
is going to give her male opponents
something to do If they defeat her
for the nomination. She expects to
make several speeches throughout
the district before the primaries.
She has always taken decisive
stand in support of all interests that
directly affect the women and chill
dren of the state and for this reason
she is considered preferable among
the majority of the best thinking
women in Colorado. Mrs. William
son is well known throughout the
state, having been chairman of the
1 Legislative committee of the Women's
Federated Club Of Colorado for four
years. Her platform is up to the
! highest standard of democracy, and,
/ IL elected. she would vote right on
the sugar tariff and laws affecting
child labor.
/ Denver club women are also inter-
esting themselves in the candidacy
of Harriet G. X. Wright, who has
been consistently fighting the bat
ties of equality for women of Colo
rado the past twenty years. She is
president of the Colorado Equal SUI
frage Association and served one
term in the 1908 state assembly, and
is said to be well qualified to be
state senator. she, like Mrs. Will
hanson, is gaining much strength
among the labor people of the sena-
torial district of which she is a can
didate. Mrs. Wright Is being op-
posed for the senate by Mrs. Alma
i<ailtitsp W nv wac III tht lloust VI
the last two sessions, and Helen Ring
Robinson; but it is generally be-
lieved among the better class of club
women in Denver that Mrs. Wright
will have little difficulty in being
nominated over the other two can
didates. Especially are club women
opposed to Mrs. Lafferty because of
her antagonism of these women on
several different occasions, and be-
cause of her affiliation with the old
Denver machine while a member OF
the last legislature and her opposi-
tion to all reform measures that
came before. the lower house in the
last session.
Lillian Hartman johnson is deyel-
oping unusual strength among the
woman voters. She is well known es-
pecially in the southern part of the
state where she resided--La Plata
county. She has always been hard
worker in the ranks of the suffra-
gists of the state and it was through
her efforts to a certain degree that
women of Colorado were given the
right to vote.
That the women candidates are GO
ing to command attention of the vot
ers in this primary election cannot
be denied.