Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-31

! Katherine Davis, as commissioner OF
corrections for the state of New
York. She quoted ZangWill, Whittier,
| Beecher and Madison. on the great
value of the ballot in 4 republic and
urged that the spirit which animates
man, which animated the forefathers,
is the same spirit which animates
women today.
The men say we do not need the
ballot, that they protect u.s. she said.
'Then, in the next breath, they say
we are angels. If they think we have
! the divine spark. let them grant us
tie ballot and allow US to go alone
| and we will not need their protec-
ton.
ut is a pretty picture that Mrs.
Fuller has drawn, that Of the mother
sending her boy into world, and urg-
ing him. My son, remember what you
have learned at your mothers knee,
and avoid the dark places that await
you On the pathway of life But wom-
an, with the ballot in her hand, can
remove that picture, by removing the
dark places, the temptations, that be-
set the boy, and his old mother need
not worry and become ANXIOUS she
said
"The men tell us politics is not
! clean she said, at another point
well, ! am under the impression
politics would be comparatively clean,
if women had been mixing in it 40
years, as the men have. Give the
| woman a chance, and she will make
politics clean. She is trained to clean
things, and III venture that if we do
not clean politics, we will not dause
any greater mess than now exists"
The Story Of Wyoming.
Mrs. Gotham told the story of
Wyoming, where women have been
voting as long as the men, Al years.
This year. she said, there are no
taxes at all being paid in Wyoming,
the state has no debt, and there is
$750.C00 in the state treasury.
"But the ants never mention the
story of Wyoming" she said. "They
speak generally only of the danger
that woman, with her inexperience,
will wreck things generally She
said
Another state also has no debt, she
said, this being Kansas, which has
UG01l JlOulDIllbu lOI % years. anu
where woman has had full suffrage
right since 1912, since which time
the tax rate has been reduced, some
thing no other state can boast.
The women of New York have
promised to save the state $4,000 a
year in primary elections alone, by
having the polling pladss in churches,
schools, art galleries and other such
places, she said. In Chicago, one
polling place was in the art gallery,
when the men and women cast their
ballot with a statute of John the Bap-
fist on one side and Daniel on the
other.
Several humorous incidents were
Ewell told by Mrs. Gotham, who
answered the charge that the women
would vote for the handsomest man,
by directing attention to the looks of
the men that the women generally
have married.
Four women started the fight for
the ballot in 1S4S, she said, and to-
day, in the west alone, 100000 have
achieved it, and are aiding their Sis
tiers elsewhere in their fight.
"Woman's hour has struck, said
not coming, it is here
She closed by telling of the
parades of men in western cities.
where banners were carried. bearing
the inscription, I'VE Trust Our Wom-
en-. Why Don't You Trust Yours"
That's the message these men of
the West are sending to you in Ar
Kansas she said.
National Body May Come.
Mrs. Ellington spoke interestingly
of the great number OF organizations
OF the state and nation which have
endorsed woman suffrage, in addi-
ton to both the big political parties,
and gave some interesting inside in
formation of how the suffrage plank
vas put into the Democratic state
platform.
She mentioned that only two weeks
ago the National Woman Suffrage as
ISOLATION had written to ask what in
Gucement Arkansas would offer, for
the holding of the convention of that
organization here. Little Rock had
made a proposition in answer and
Mrs. Ellington states that by the mid
Gle of November it would be known
pc sitively whether or not the conven-
ton would be held in the capital OF
; Arkansas. If it should come here
she said, it will be the first national
@, ganization of women to meet in
this state, though not the first tC
select this state as a meeting place
/. as the General Federation of Women's
. clubs has already elected tn hold its