Denver labor bulletin., 1915-05-22

Dut expects 10 even up neat
Wednesday when the printers
hold their annual conflict for office.
Course we can't always hope to have all
our desires come to pass, so that defeat
of Otto i. Thum for reelection and the
two-platoon system for the fire lad
dies is the present cause of grief. 9th
ADVISE the results We're very satisfactory
-Thum lost out because so many of the
organized labor men and women have
become hypnotized by the fanatical re-
ligious underground war that is now 60
ing on in Denver and elsewhere. They
voted their prejudices rather than their
convictions. Those of the A. p. A. per-
suasion went for Greenlee and Griffith
because they We're o. KID by the Knights
of Luther, and those of the opposite faith
voted for hammers as the candidate OF
the Knights of Columbus-and that tells
why Thum ran third in first choice
votes. Then there were Others who yot-
ed against Thum for revenge, because in
the two years he has held office at the
City hall he couldn't or wouldn't give a
job to everyone who applied When
Thum goes out of office on June l. the
working people of Denver will lose the
best and truest friend they ever had in
the city government. As for the two
platoon system. il failed because there
than otherwise, who didn't want to pay
the necessary l6 cents on the 81 600
values that would give the firemen hglf
time off to get acquainted with their
families. However. one failure doesn't
create a calamity, and there will be an
other city election two years hence.
when a different story is likely TO be
told by the returns. In the meantime
there is no reason TO nurse any worry.
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More pecvcd than the o. p. however,
are the women politicians over the cleo
tiun- Their candidate for social welfare,
Mr.. Nora r. Wright. also indorsed by
ia" Water Consumer league. was the
only woman candidate on the ticket.
and received but COS first choice votes
ont 81 total Of 42.3l3 east. She was
below Jesse Nctter, the Socialist eandi-
date, also indorsed by the Water Con-
-umers' League, who pollcd l0il votes.
The most ardent women suffragists
acknowledged there was something
wrong besides the inclement weather.
Mn. Martha J. Craumer one Of the
pioneer suffmgists OF Colorado, gave
vent to her feelings a. follows: Most
Of the women have become disgusted and
quit voting. One might a. well bc frank
about IT, Only few more elections and
all the women in Denver will have quit
voting The women have shown that
they can't stand together They have
divided into factions and instead Of go
ing down the line FOR good cause they
spend their time knitting one another. !.
for one. am tired OF all this fussing and
fighting. ! am completely disgusted.
shall never vote again. What Is the use.
viii YOU tell mes Have the women
complishcd anything in the twenty-five
years they have voted' I am not pes
simistic. | am simply disgustcd. Do
admit that suffrage j. n failurc3 The
n scts speak for themselvcs.'
Oliver T. Jackson. negro messenger in
the governors office. WIS the prime
ruler OF the state this week in the
absence of Governor Carlson. Lieutenant
Governor Lewis and Private Secretary
Millikcn. Jackson was left in control
OF the chief executives office and enter
tained all callers on business, but didn't
90 to the length OF making appointments
to office or pardoning prisoners from the
penitentiary. Jackson personally knows
about every politician in the state. hav-
ing held down the Job Of messenger for
crn GOVERNOR Carlson didn't seem to