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

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two names registered as from one
house. l investigated and found but
two voters in that house. From an
other house seven women were regis
tered. l suspected that only Il wo.
man lived there. Representing my
self as IN agent for cosmetics | went
to THE house and sod an order TO
the one inmate. ! told a hard luck
story. She had been drinking and
was laxative; she took pity on my
poverty and told me how ! could make
money at the polls. My heart almost
stopped beating, for here was the in.
formation | wanted. she told me she
had registered from her ward seven
times, under as many different names
names Of women who had been in
mates of her house up Till a shont
time before and had left when the
hard times zane. She had voted sew
en- times and even showed me the dis
guises she wore and told me who paid
Tor her votes"
Published Statement of Mrs. Fran
els w. Goddard, President of the Co.
IoniaI DANES Of Colorado, and wife OF
Chief Justice Goddard, in an open
letter: Hf
IL have voted since 1898. l have
been a delegate to the city and state
conventions, and a member Of the Re-
publican state committee from my
county! l have been a deputy sheriff
and a watcher at the polls; for twen-
ty-threa years / have been in the
midst of woman suffrage and have
worked day in and day out for it
now ! see my mistake and would abol-
ish it tomorrow If l could.
"No law has been put on the sta
tute book OF Colorado for the benefit
of women and children that has been
pu. there by the woman's vote. The
hours Of working ONE have nQ.
been shortened, the wages OF school
type of men that get into office has
not improved a bit.
CAS- for the effect Of the vote on
women personally, l have known
scores of women who worked for the
Republican party one year and work
ed for the Democratic party the next
year, telling me frankly the Demo
Gratis gave us more money
Cranky, the experiment is a fail
ure. III has done Colorado no good;
it has done I'M no good. The best
thing for both would be If tomorrow
the ballot for women could be abol-
ished."
Judge Moses HaiIett, who was judge
of United States Circuit Court Twen'
ty.seven years, and previously chief
Justice Of Supreme Court Of Color.
ado, states in the Denver Republican
Our state has had the female sui
frage plan a sufficiently long time te
form a fair idea Of its workings. ]
am not prejudced in any way, Blu,
honestly do not see where the expert
ment has proved a benefit. The pres
ence Of women at the polls has only
augmented the total vote it has work
ed no radical changes. 1t has pro
NOTED no special reforms, and 1t has
had no particular purifying effect up
on politics. There is a growing ten
dency on the part of most of the bet
ter and more intelligent female vot
ers of Colorado to cease exercising
the ballot. They still go to the polls
but need to be urged by some of theil
male relatives. I do not believe there
will be any abrogation Of the suf
frage rights of women Of our state
for the reason that no man who as
pires to office would risk their dis
pleasure by advocating the repeal Of
the law. At the same time, if it were
to he done over again, the people OF
Colorado would defeat woman sui
frage by an overwhelming majority
Statement by Senator John W.
Works before the Woman's City Club
of Los Angeles:
"The woman of California, taker
in the mass have made a failure OF
suffrage. How many voted at the
last election? The women who go tC
club meetings and hear public ques
tons discussed probably did, and they
should be commended. But they are
only a small number and the others
did not vote"
oLdLeLlclI pIluCcu Wy u SOAAAAs
Express, Colorado paper: .u.
"On moral questions. the laws ,O1
Colorado are famous for their weak
ness or their absence. The women OF
Colorado are on trial in regard to the
suffrage movement. Their failure to
benefit this state by their ballot is
doing more to retard' woman suffrage
in other states than anything else. II
Colorado, as a result Of woman sui,
frage, had laws above the average
especially on moral questions and
where the rights OF women are at
fected, if it was a state that could be
pointed to with pride in regard to its
laws and enforcement, if the city OF
Denver as a result of their ballot
could be changed from the worst city
morally, in the land, to N Of even
average decency, then the suffragists
could give reason for asking for fran
chise in other states"
In Colorado, all the four women
sitting in the legislature Of 1901,
actually voted for a most vile race.
track gambling bill. by their votes and
example greatly aiding its passage by
the legislature. Governor Shafroth
promptly vetoed the bill and admins
tered a scathing rebuke to the women
in his veto message as follows:
eff this bill became a law the fin.
ger of scorn and ridicule would ever
after be pointed at the influence OF
women's franchise in state affairs"