The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-24

tho precincts up until noon not sim
gle woman voter had appeared al
Though the registration list indicated
hthat two hundred were qualified.
Seven women candidates tor
council seats were on the bal
lots today--two progressives, three
socialists and two democrats. Two
Of them have opposition in the
primaries, but the names Of ave won-
On are certain to be placed on the elec-
tion ballots for April Z.
Around these two women candidates
who must dight for party endorsements
most of the interest In the outcome Of
today's primaries conferred, but the
suffrage vote played an even moro in-
portant part In the, other twenty nine
wards that offered no women candi-
dates. In these wards male candidates
astonished at the size OF the suffrag-
list registration on February 8, bid
against each other for the support OF
women's organizations IN one Of the
liveliest primary campaigns In the
city's history. For three weeks tho
pay to the suffragist section Of the
galleries on the part OF aldermanic
candidates, city officials and opposing
party factions has been one Of the
most Important and significant de-
velopments in the political history Of
Chicago Aldermen who discarded
guilds OF tobacco and sQuirted streams
OF Juice reoklessly. suddenly dis
covered that the splitting evA was
one Of the greatest crimes Of the age.
when women's organizations urged
action upon them, council committees
got very busy and Mayor Harrison
and his police DEPARTMENT even busier.
The official word that 168,0o6 women
had registered at their first opportun-
ity had scarcely been given out when
the police began making Wholesale ar
rests Of persons who expeotorated on
the sidewalks.
The antispitting campaign was
scarcely under way when the anti
smoking campaign got under way
with a uoor. 1t was directed at the
practice Of permitting smoking on the
front platform OF street cars. Vari-
Gus women's organizations supported
by street car motormen, called the
practice disgusting. pointed out that
the smoke permeated the cars, and
descended upon the council health
committee. The members Of the COM
Hiittee courteously laid aside their
cigars, listened to the arguments and
promised to recommend an anti-smok-
ing ordinance for passage
Ths haste with which politicians OF
both ''low-brow" and 'high-brow" type
have come to the support Of measures
advocated by women voters encour
aged suffrage leaders today to pre-
dict that not only adj the four womeA
candidates with opposition will be
nominated at the primaries, but In
several wards known opponents to
woman suffrage probably will find
themselves eliminated from the race.
Miss Marion Drake, stenographer
suffragist, Is on the official ballot un-
opposed as a candidate for the pro-
gressive nomination in the first ward.
At the last minute she succeeded in
multiplying the petition OF her only
antagonist. Carl N. Wehle. Only L.
6S5 women voters are registered in the
first ward. Miss Drake will oppose
the notorious Bath House" John
Coughlin, democrat, in the April cleo.
ton. The only fears Of her supporters
today was that a certain element
would write in Wehle's name on the
progressive ballots and that the WON
en- voters in the ward, assuming an
easy victory, would not go to the polls.
However, Miss Drake was confident
today OF her nomination.
| In the second ward Miss Sara NJ.
Hopkins, candidate for the democratic
nomination for the council, is opposed
by Thomas T. Hoyne. The suffragist
registration in the second totaIled g.
164. Miss Hopkins counts upon the
votes of at least two-thirds OF the
women in the democratic primaries
and upon the votes OF independent
democrats. She has been making an
active campaign that included speech
making all over the district.
| Mrs. Marie Gerhardt was late en-
trant for the democratic nomination
| in the twenty-third. one OF the wards
where the women vote is expected to
be unusually heavy. Her friends per-
suaded her to run by arguing that the
presence of two male candidates in
the fight for the democratic nominal
ton made suffrage victory probable
| if majority Of the 5000 registered
women voters get behind woman
candidate.
! Mrs. Julia Agnew, progressive can
didate in the twenty-frst, has no OPP
position for the nomination. Her
husband. Hearst-Harrison candidate,