Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-24
WOMAN'S COLUMN

tion upon them. Council committees got
very busy and Mayor Harrison and his
police department even busier The of
fetal word the 15S,026 women had
registered at their first opportunity
had scarcely been given out when the
police began making wholesale arrests
of persons who expectorated on the
sidewalks.
The anti-spitting campaign was
scarcely under way when the anti
smoking campaign got under way with
d boom. 1t was directed at the prac-
tice of permitting smoking on the
front platform of street cars. Various
women's organizations supported by
street car motormen, called the prac-
tice disgusting, pointed out that the
smoke permeated the cars, and de-
scended upon the council health COM
:l1ittee. The members OF the commit
tee courteously laid aside their Gig
ars, listened to the arguments and
promised to recommend an anti-smok-
ing ordinance for passage.
The haste with which politicians of
both Glow brow" and "high brow" type
have come to the support of measures
advocated by women voters encour-
sged suffrage leaders today to predict
that not only all the four women cam
didates with opposition will be nomi-
mated at the primaries, but in several
wards known opponents to women suf-
frage probably will find themselves
eliminated from the race Miss Ma
rion H. Drake, stenographer suffra-
gist, who is candidate for the Pro-
gressive nomination in the first ward,
IS believed to be almost certain of OBJ
tanning the nomination over Karl N.
Wehle, her male opponent, who counts
his strength among the negro popula-
lion in the first. Only 1885 women are
registered in the first, but Miss Drake
will have the backing of influential
i.lt'lS i iOSA ASooINSo. IL SIle NllIo liIS
nomination she will oppose the no.
torioas "Bathhouse John" Coughlin,
Democrat, in the April 7 election.
In the second ward Miss Sara M.
Hopkins, candidate for the Democrat
ic nomination for the council, is OPP
posed by Thomas T. Hoyne. The suf-
fragist registration in the second to-
tailed 6164. Miss Hopkins counts upon
the votes of at least two thirds of
the women making an active cam
paign that included speech making all
over the, district ss-s-=-z-...
Mrs. Raymond Robins, wife of a
prominent Progressive leader, filed at
the last minute as candidate for the
Progressive nomination in the seven
teenth ward. Her opponent is Albert
+. Senger. The suffragist registration
in the seventeenth is light, but back
ers of Mrs. Robins count upon support
for her from the union labor element
because of her efforts in behalf of
working girls unions. -
Mrs. Marie Gerhardt was a late ell-
trant for the Democratic nomination
in the twenty-third. one of the wards
where the women vote is expected tt
re unusually heavy. Her friends per-
suaded her to run by arguing that the
presence Of two male candidates ir
the fight for the Democratic nomina-
ton made suffra geg victory probable
if a majority of the 5000 registered
women voters get behind woman
candidate.
Mrs. Julia Agnew, Progressive can,
didate in the twenty-frst, has no op-
position for the nomination. IIer hus.
band, Hearst-Harrison candidate, is
county employe, but promised hel
at least his vote if not his influence.
Mrs. Josephine C. Kanocko, Socialist
writer; Mrs. Ida L, McDermott and
Miss Maude ]. Bell, Socialist candi
dates, are not opposed by other mem
bers of their party and are certain OF
places on the April 7 ballot.