The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-10-18
PRO-SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN BOOK
Being Certain Questions and Ans
sewers for stump Speakers

Do YOU contend that woman
could divest herself OF her sympa-
thies and serve intelligently on
jury?
\ Why not? Has She not been
handing down judgments for centu-
ries, and is il not automatic that
practice leads on to perfection?
O. Would YOU care TO entrust
your government TO the hands Of
Cleopatra?
A As TO that think Cleopatra
compares very favorably with Mark
Anthony.
Q. Would you find il pleasant 10
be outvoted by your cook?
A. On the whole | think my cook
is required by her vocation to exer-
else greater intelligence. and nicer
determinations. than any hired man
or my valet. by whom | am already
outvoted. and it is just possible.
moreover that membership in a po-
litical organization would keep her
from changing her residence as fire.
quently as she is now inclined 10 do.
Q. Do you believe any VI nan yet
born has any grasp whatsoever upon
the economic principles underlying
such a question for instance as the
tariff?
\. If such woman has ever
| been born she is quite as unknown
to me as the man who may truly be
said TO have had any such grasp if
| the testimony OF men opposed TO
| each other in our tariff debates may
| be regarded as evidence upon which
to base a Judgment,
Q. Can YOU name any woman in
all history who has been the foun
tain-head of any really great move
ment for spiritual upIift and poliJi
cal progress?
! A Yes. Martin Luthers mother
was a woman, and it is universally
! believed. and | understand suscept-
| ible to proof that the mothers Of
! Oliver Cromwell, Moses. John the
Baptist, and George Washington be
| Ionged TO that same sex.
| O. Do you consider that women
/ show very much sense Of the fitness
| OF things when they decorate their
| persons with all sorts OF gewgaws
| and feathers?
A ] think they SHOW quite as
, much sense as the average major
/ general when he covers his facade
with red ribbons and brass buttons
with gilt braid on his trousers ami
an ostrich plume in his hat.
Q. In the whole history Of head
gear is there anything more absurd
! than the hats worn by women:
\. Only two greater absurdities
exist. The stiff denomination in felt
/ known as the derby, and that highly
ridiculous bit OF uncomfortable os-
tentation known as the undertakers
st0ve-pipe worn by man.
Q. Do YOU think the average poll
ing place is a fit place for a woman
! OF refined taste to go to?
A. Not while there are nothing
but men around.
@. Do you believe it would be con
duciye to happiness il family
found itself with democratic faith
er ana a republican mother al its
head?
A. Two heads are always better
than one in the last analysis it is
better to quarrel on matters Of prin-
chile than because OF the intrusion
of a Third party, the latter OF which
has stranded so many family barks
on the rocks of Reno.
O. Do YOU think in time OF war
woman could raise and lead regi-
ment to the front?
A. 1t is the testimony Of experts
that Julia Ward Howe's Battle
Hymn of the Republic" raised and
led to the front not only regiment.
but enough men TO constitute 9
corps.
Q. l don't mean that way. What
I mean is do YOU believe a woman
can bear arms?
\. She can and has done better
than that-she can and does bear
soldiers
@. Do you honestly believe that
women really know what they
want?
\. In this case | do.
Q. What is it?
A. Rights.