Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-10-29

~ was a resident of Colorado when
the constitution of the state was
amended so as to admit women to full
voting privileges. Most of us who
voted for that amendment were, at
that time, Of opinion chat the change
would be promotive Of civic reform
and a general betterment of pubnc
affairs. without going into details,
as i am not prepared to do at this
time, l would say the hope OF those
for a betterment OF affairs through
woman suffrage was not realized in
J any measure. The fact is, the M
of Colorado cut no figure in the ad
ministration of public affairs outside
of those connected directly with the
educational interests. There seems
to be an agreement on the part OF the
leaders of all political parties to give
women a large share in the educa-
tional offices, and to keep them out OF
the others. Under the conditions
named, educational interests are al
most wholly under the control OF wo-
men, and, as a teacher OF many years
experience, | cannot regard that con-
! dition Of affairs as conductive to the
best interests of the children OF the
state. In most Colorado counties wo.
men are at the head Of the county
schools, and the result is not as hep
full to educational interests as could
be desired. The fact is, women are
not fitted to run all around the coun.
try districts in a wild country, at all
time of the year, and do the work that
"a county supervisor of schools ought
to do. In political offices the nj
almost invariably hold subordinate po-
sitions and exert no influence either
for good or for evil. In the cities and
large towns there Is a voting element,
a certain class of women, that DO a
great deal OF harm. The tricky poll
tician knows how to use these people
and ley are used many times for very
unworthy ends"
. Richard Barry was delegated by the
Ladies' Home Journal to ascertain
conditions in Colorado regarding Wo-
man Suffrage. That magazine pub
lished the following account as relat-
ed BY MT. barry.
"Tho Denver election was preceded
some months before by a meeting OF
the woman's political organization, at
which the women fought with fists.
AT the election in May, 1910, the sale
of wOmen's votes was open and
shameless, At each OF the 21l voting
precincts in Denver, there were FOUR
women working in the interests OF the
saloon keepers. These women had
previously visited the headquarters
Of the saloonkeepers and openly ac~
cepted each a $40 bill for her servic-
es. / saw $4,000 paid to women vot-
ers. who apparently made no effort to
conceal it, as indeed it would have
been useless
Mrs. D. Bryant Turner, in the Den
YER Republican:
"'Why should women be expected to
purify politics? Although it is very
flattering, the fact is that women are
no better than men along any lines
Richard Barry reports in the Ladies'
Home Journal:
"The chief OF police of Denver told
me that juvenile crime was increas'
ing alarmingly."
Dr.. Helen L. Sumner, for the Equal
Suffrage Association Of New York,
spent two years of research in Colo
RADIO. In her book Equal Suffrage
she says:
"The effect of the woman vote upon
parity politics has been slight. Wo-
mans sense of honor has been blunt
ed. Women have been made holder
and more self-assertive. A county
chairman over his own signature tes'
titled: In the last campaign women
who sold their influence agreed to
work for both parties for cash; the
highest price paid, $25, 5000, the lowest
$500. l myself bought II woman
for $1,000, when the Democrats bough'
her for $500, and we have her in
dorsement on both checks"
Note-Dr. Sumner "a paid partly
by S%uffragists. partly by anti-Suffra
gists, to prepare a true and unbiased
account of the effect OF suffrage upon
the individual and society.
Miss Clara A. Jess, only woman JUS
tice of the peace in California, who
resigned her position, is quoted as fol-
lows in The Reply, copied from AS
ISOLATED Press:
81 found the responsibilities OF my
Office too great a nervous strain.
doubt whether women could stand the
strain. = " " Then the women didn't
give me any organized support; if they
had, it might have been different.
am not* so sure as ! was about wo-
men voting and all that. Sometimes
| think that the l. w. WIS have the
right idea-that the ballot doesn't
amount to much anyway"
The facts as to the social evil in
Denver are vouched for by Mrs. Kate
Waller Barrett, national president of
thd Florence C%rittendon homes for
wayward girls. She states as follows:
SIN all the s~eventy-eight Florence
Crittendon homes in the United States
l never saw such a collection of girls
Of the better class as are in the Den
yer home"
New York Evening World:
"The women Of Phoenix, Arizona,
have blocked prohibition and voted to
keep the saloons open, = . IS Giving
women the vote was supposed to up
lift the community to something APP
preaching female attitudes. In Phoe-
niy on tho contra rv thew sppm tn