The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-07-15


night to theatres furnishing luncheon at the
polls as the final roundup of an exhaustive cam
paign The tabuated physical and nervous
wrecks which marked that strenuous effort
well calculated for Red Cross division devoted
to the care of the feminine injured, not gun
shot wounds, but whose results quite
effective :.
Gov Waite and a Populst Legislature of
Colorado in 1898 enfranchised without
aid effort her part, but all these of the
Wanted prize have disclosed no advance in man
nefs morals in the body polite. But it has
been the contrary. Women seem to fall victims
to the political machine.
81 was an eyewitness of the election in Colo
RADIO in 1S94-the first time the women voted
A corrupt political machine instituted by
predatory wealth, both native and foreign, whose
aim the overthrow of Governor Waite, the
miners friend the protector of the mineral lands
of the State. Two of the most constituencies
politicians in the nation were placed in charge,
who called to their aid, to corral the womans
vote, noted prohibition leader. Seldom has
there been such open exhibition of graft and
unlimited of money. Hundreds of thousands
of dollars were expended in fattery Of woman on
her weak points of social prestige and love CT
display, while the wives OF the ~labor1ng classes
were cajoed in clubs organized Of extravagant
outlay into the belief that the patronage of the
smelter owners wives compensated for the vote
which meant continual yoke for the husband, or
if rebellion shown out of a job for the man,
and the family in the street.
1.-THE Brown Palace Hotel in Denver was
draped in flags flowers and bunting, and hither
the susceptible women rushed, where were
refreshments and sumptuous outlay, laying the
fattering JUNCTION to their souls that they were
on the top round of the social ladder.
cat the close of the campaign, Governor
Waite, clean man, who had closed the gambling
dens and houses of disrepute, compelled the sa-
looms to obey the law, who had enfranchised
woman, and steadily throwing the aegis of
protection around both miner and mineral lands,
ANONYMOUSLY routed, while there came to
the executive chair man who was the very
antithesis of Governor Waite. In forty-eight
hours after he was inaugurated every gambling
house and the red light district were thrown
open. The voted their man in and de-
feated Governor Waite, man OF high mind and
honest"
And women are Just as illogical, hysteri
cal, unstable now, as they were when Miss
Phoebe Cousins delivered those words.
Beans seem to be playing as important
part in Mexican warfare ,as they do IN Bos-
tons culinary circles:
You must hand it to the new Secretary
of State that he seems to do more and talk
less than his distinguished predecessor.
And one man writer doesn't object to the
''see everything" waists some women wear,
if there is only enough to see. One Of EN-
said So in print, too.
The wife murderer who could evade the
law, make good as college professor, and
then get away with what Muenter-Holt did,
is 'some smart Aleck."
1t looks as though Germany had dropped
her knitting, in her recent reply to our lat
est "Note," and the end of the series of
Notes is not yet in sight
While the Fourth of July fatalities were
not as numerous as usual, the season for
rocking the-boat, with the usual results of