Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1914-01-21
WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE
At THE STATE HOUSE
Two Stirring Speeches by Con-
gresham Keating and Mrs.
Stubs.
ISSUE is FULLY DEFINED.
Why Women Should Have a Voice in
The Government Which is by The
Consent" Of The Governed.

NuuhEuA VI tHC OuNCIueO.
After patiently waiting for the de.
layed opening of the session of the
House of Delegates last night, the
mass of people who had assembled
there were rewarded by hearing
splendid speeches.
Mayor Strange pr ssided and before
introducing the first speaker, Hon.
Edward Kesting, of Colorado, mem.
ber of Congress, the Mayor explained
he was presiding at q suffrage meet
ing although not exactly in favor of
suffrage, as he had not made up his
mind that it was the right thing. Mr.
Heating spoke at some legth and ex-
ulained many things answered many
questions and dispelled many argu
ments against suffrage, coming as he
doe s from State that gave women
the right to vote twsnty years ago.
Indeed, Congressman Heating said he
owed his position as Congressman to
$4,000 cmen, "God bless them, " and
he had the unique distinction of being
the only member of Congress who
had never voted except side by side
with women, for franchise in his
State having been granted twenty
years ago, women voted at the cleo
tion when he first cast a ballot after
reaching his majority. He paid a
tribute to Maryland as one Of the
thirteen original colonies, and said
ne hoped this State would not be the
last to grant women the franchise,
when Maryland had been the first to
grant men religious liberty and frt e
dom. The very first sutfrsgist, Mar
garet Brent. was a Msrylander, and
three hundred years ago pleaded for
women to have a voice to vote. 'In
these four walls, said Mr.. Heating.
Washington gave up his commits
sion, the only time on record when q
man gave up public job " Mary
land. he said, ought to be the fret
southern State t. grant women the
ballot. For twenty years the women
of Colorado have had voice in the
vote for every public Office from
President to counselor
For twenty years he said, he hao
heard the old cry of the antis. women
are not CAPABLE. He ridiculed the
idea and illustrated forcefully. He
asked the women present 70 quiz
their lord aud master on political
facts, to see II they, the men voters
knew il all. They probably cannot
tell the names of th. men in tn,
Presidents Cabinet, the names of tbs
Congressman and Senators, and some
of them don't even know the precinct
and ward in which they vote. An.
other argument is if you give women
| the ballot the bad women will vote a.
we'll as the good wome1. 1t ISM
| true. They don't vote, they are
/ ashamed to. Then il is said womet
will make fool laws. This, the Con
gresssnap said his State had not found
to be true. The best laws on the
Colorado statute books are laws made
by women. rhe Colorado saloon be-
hsves, if il doesn't we make ii be-
have or wipe il cut.
1.-THE voice of the people is the
voice of God," but often a public
official thinks he knows more thar
the people whose servant he is. He
spoke of the laws governing chill.
dren and said in every fight for their
right women had say. Congress.
man KestinS said he is a newspaper
man and has been for twenty years
II is his business TO run down falls
stories and this he had been doinf
about woman's suffrage. Ii wPs
said divorces would be common i
women got the ballot, but in TWEEN
ty years of Colorados equal suf.
TRACE, he had never known a lawyel
to advance this cause in the divorc,
courts. Suffrage leads to quicken
ing interests. Women who vot,
take life more seriously, and TAX,
keener interest in things. Hsv
ing fought for the right to vot,
when they cast their ballot, womer
believe they are performing an i'm
portant function of the government
The polls are the same in suffrage
states as they are in non-suffrag,
states. A politician to start q row
at the polls would be fool.
Another argument the antis ad
vance is women should not be iu pub
lie places with men, yet men see
women scruboing the floors of th,
Capitol and let them do it, Colorad,
does not permit her women to scrul
floors of public buildings. Sh,
makes men do it. Women ia suffrag.
states show no desire to get jobs
The most intellectual Senator in tia
State is woman, and the men al
know and reco .ynize her mental su
periority. We don't pretend, sal,
the speaker, that suffrage will brinI
the millennium. Oh nc. What hav,
women donef If women had don,
what men have, the question woul,
be not to enfrsnchise the women, bu
TO disfranehise the men. Don't b,
frightened at stories they tell you q
this being a Republic. A Republic i
governed by the people and for tn