Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-08
FEMINIST WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

provide for putting constitutional
Suffrage amendment up TO the voters OF
Iowa in 1916 Perhaps they will, but
If the legislators were to Voice the SEN
timents OF large majority Of the real
homenakers OF Iowa they would do
nothing of the kind. More than ninety
per cent of the mothers Of Iowa have
never interested themselves in the SUI
frage movement and a large majority
of then, are unqualifiedly opposed TO 1t
in our opinion Very few women. COM
paratively. are represented In the slo-
gan Votes for Women A lot OF good
men are going wrong on this suffrage
question on the theory that women
have a right to vote. OF course. If II
would be Of benefit to them and TO the
greater number. they have a right to
vote. just as they have right to do
many things which men are doing and
protecting them from. Woman is the
finest specimen of creation and she has
right to the best Of everything. She
has a right TO swagger up TO the bar
with her husbane-at least, her license
is as good az his-but she also has a
right to something better.
CUMMYNS AND THE PRESIDENCY.
Nevada Representative
The Chicago Tribune's Washington
correspondent announces a series OF
articles on the republican candidates
for president in 1916. He enumerates
eight such candidates and while we are
not wholly clear as to the process by
which he eliminates all pubficists suS-
gested down to this number. yet II we
take his outlining of the field for what
1t is worth We are permitted to reach
a very pleasing conclusion. In other
words, the Tribune's eight candidates
are Justice Hughes and Governor Whit
man Of New York, Governor Willis,
former Senator Burton and former Am
bassador Herrick of Ohio and Senators
Borah OF Idaho, Cummins OF Iowa and
Lodge of Massachusetts, The way in
which such batch OF candidates would
inevitably work out their respective
fates would be that the two New York
ers would kin each other of. the three
Ohioans would kill each other off and
Senator Cun1nins. having the middle of
the country as his field OF particular
operations would wipe Lodge and
Borah practically of from the politi-
cal map We are really and seriously
HOplitE " SEQ otIldtO1 SnhiLiiHS P" III
the republican nomination.; but this
survey of the situation makes the mat
ter look so easy as to make one fear
that the Tribune may have left out
somebody that might really matter.
| Probably he has done this; but quite
| az likely it It that he has put too many
| in. In that case Whitman and Willis
might be left as really formidable can
didates; but the more the discussion
| goes on the more does IT appear that
| Cummins Is the candidate upon whom
! a concentration of public sentiment is
most reasonably to be expected For
| the next year there is bound to be q
very large amount OF very speculative
presidential talk, such as the Tribune
man illustrates; but when the states
! that have presidential preference pri-
maries come to declare themselves
| something will have to have shown it
self very different from what is yet
shown or from what the Tribune man
suggests or the great mid-western
states will be found aligning them
selves for Cummins. In that case the
main feature Of the campaign that will
remain will be the shooting.