The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1914-07-28
CHICAGO ELECTION Up
HOLD SUFFRAGIST CLAIMS.
Larger Percentage of Registered
Vote I'oIled Among Women Than
Among Men.

| readily appreciate SeVenty-Glfet
per cent. of the women who regis
| tered voted, which was a big sur
| per cent. of men who registered
voted.
Probably the most effective bi
| of work was that done in the no
torious First ward, where Mis-:
| Drake ran against Bath House
! John. Those who are familiar will
Chicago know Ie horrible condi
| tions existing in this ward. The
| women who lived there voted fol
| Bath House John; they were lined
UP to vote for their bread and but
ter by their traffic managers. And
| although Miss Drake was defeated
| she gave Bath House John the
first real contest he had had in
years, reducing his majority OF 1917
| nearly fifty per cent. The benefit
the strenuous campaign that is
now waged by Judge Owens against
Bath House John and Hinky Dinky
McKenna. Miss brakes fight also
uncovered the fact that Bath House
John not only relied upon the vici-
Gus element for support, but utiliz-
ed the Indifference of men and
women to his advantage
The old adage, Nothing suc-
ceeds like success is happily
demonstrated in Illinois. Not a
politician can be found who is not
vociferous III his claim that he al
ways believed in equal Suffra age all
the papers are friendly, and the
ants have melted away into a
state of innocu2us desuetude.
Judge Lindsey and Woman suf-
frage i'm Colorado.
Asked if he had said that politi-
cal corruption had not existed in
Colorado in spite of woman suf-
frage, Judge Lindsey replied: ''I
frankly admitted this, because it is
true. 1 also admitted up to very
recent times that woman suffrage
had not enabled us to eliminate
this corruption. Ninety odd per
cent. of the corruption was by men,
and due to men. Perhaps one per
cent. of it could be attributed to
women, as individuals, who were
used the powers. 1 sought to
point out how Illogical it was to
argue against woman suffrage in
Colorado because it has not helped
US as much as We would like in
eliminating political corruption, be-
cause if that argument is good
against woman suffrage,it is ninety
per cent. more against male suf-
frage. 1t is not fair to expect wo-
men to accomplish in a few years
what men have brought about and
have never been able to correct.
q also admitted very frankly
that when it came to the bread
line in politics, women had similar
weaknesses to men, because they
are human, just like men, but l
have always insisted that this is
absolutely no logical argument
against giving woman the franchise.
The net results Of woman suffrage
in purifying politics and giving us
good laws have more than justified
them suffrage. am
more heartily and more enthusiastic
for woman suffrage every year l
live. l have no objection to
your using this letter, but l do
wish it understood that 1 have nev-
er said anything against woman suf
frage, or any depreciation of it,
and one or two disjointed, discon-
nected sentences of things l have
said, used for that purpose, have
misrepresented me because separa-
ted from the context of my inter
view"
A striking proof of the increased
influence that the ballot gives to
women was furnished in the course
of the labor troubles in Colorado.
When men, women and children
were being shot down, and Cover
nor Ammons was unwilling to send
for Federal aid to stop the slaugh-
ter, a thousand women, of all ages,
classes and creeds, went up to the
capitol building and beset the Gov
ernor, and would not give up till
he had yielded.
A big thing-and a picturesque
the sort of thing that newspapers
generally consider good copy" Yet,
while the Denver papers were point
ing to the facts as a striking ex-
ample of the benefits of woman
suffrage proof that women, as
voters, will apply -.re protective in
stinct of motherhood to public af-
fairs our Eastern papers did not
even mention the fact.
An International Committee max
ing an exhaustive study of laws,
pronounced those of Colorado, for
the care and protection of the
home, and children-the very foun-
dation of the Republic-to be the
most advanced of any State in the
Union.
1 am, Mr.. Editor,
Very truly yours,