Connecticut western news., 1915-04-08
Some Suffrage Corrections.
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 Do the Editor of The News:
 I have before me the paragraphs, headed Con" being the statements of the Hartford Anti-suffrnSe Press Chain, man which appeared in your issue od last week-Msrch 25th. As am su1e you do not wish anything but the truth to appear in your colums, am going 10. ask you to give me space enough to 9orrect some of these statements. which were icon" in more ways than one.
 She SAYS first, At recent Chicago election only about on@-third of tue women were registered, and according oo the Boston Transcript, S2,o00 os these did not go to the polls. Enough voted, however. to defeat Harrison and gave majority to Sweitzer' who stands for a wide open-town. 'r
 As a matter of fact, there has boen TAO election vet for mayor of Chicago, but merely vote at the primaries for nomination. The last, day of regisSva- tion found a total of 2S6, 624 women registered-this being. in excess of the men in n majority of wards. Harrs sson was defeated as candidate at the primaries, but the testimony of Jane Addams and other prominent Chicago women is that the women had reason to dlstlust him. He had served five terms as mayor, and during the first four, and even for, a year after women got the vote, he maintained the segre- gated district, and otherwise kept the town open wide enongh "for all practi- cal purposes, !" as Miss McDowell states. When he was about to come up, for re- election he closed the above mentioned district, saving that the women's argu. ments had at last convinced him, but the women distrusted such conversion. Sweitzer is a, young man with short record, but what record he has is good, and he has promised clean admins. tration if elected. At the Republican primary Judge Olsen, the neform candi-. date, had majority of more than T.. 900 on the women's vote, while the men gave a majority of nearly 10000 for Thompson, candidate of the Lorimer machine.
 Secondly she states. "In Nevada ono of the first acts of the legislature after the enfranchisement of women was. to pass the easy divorce. bill restoring she former conditions which made Reno a National scandal. It is said that Gov ernor Boyle delayed his signature. hop. ing in vain for some remonstranceA"
 The truth about this is as follows: No women in Nevada have yet cast U vote. The first election of any kind in which they wlll participate comes May 4th. The statement about Gov. Boyle P is absolutely untrue. Almost every women's organization in the state sent signed petition and protests which SO impressed the governor that he admitted that the opposition on the part of women was so strong that he believed the matter should have been referTcd to the voters.
 Her climax is as follows: But worst of all, the lower house in Colorado has passed a measure abolishing the Juvenile Court. Is there any male suffrage state where the legislature has voted to abolish the Children's Court {? Nor has this happened because Denver is so perfect that such a court is no longer needed there. Only few months ago Judge Lindsey declared that the cases on sex charges alone have increased 300 per cent. "
 Now let us see what arc :he real facts. The bill to abolish the Juvenile Court applies to the Denver Court, and is one more effort on the part of Judge Lindsey's enemies to remove him by abolishing the office which he holds. He has, as every one knows, aroused enormous antagonism by his fearless denunciations of graft and corruption. In 1919 the effort was made by both Republicans and Democrats to defeat him and through the women's vote he was elected on the Good Citizens ticket. Several efforts have been mad 3