The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-09-28
A WORD TO STATES
INDEPENDENT MEN

To the independent men of the
state of Nevada. the Independent wo-
men voters feel that we in entering
this. our first political campaign, owe
to you a word or two. 1t was you,
who. in spite of money control in
the Republican party, gave us our
freedom. You gave the ballot to all
the women, unreservedly, but you
could not give freedom of the use of
il, to all. We who have that privi-
lege. feel that we would be doing an
Injustice to your faith, in our ability
to use ii well, did we not remember,
at the first opportunity, our sisters
of the East who have not been grant
ed that boon.
And we say to those same men, are
they going to allow us to be ma
ligned, and not answer the chal-
lenge? Are they going to. allow cal
umny and vituperation to be heaped
upon our heads, and not answer
back. Are they going to allow that
band of faithful earnest working, wo-
men of the Eastern states, to come
to our state, to have their names
abused and their honor questioned?
Are they going to allow our own
Anne Martin, who is spending her
time and her fortune in the interest
of their womenkind, to have her
name dragged through the dirt, and
not come to the rescue? We ask them
to record their answer at the polls
on the 7th day of next November.
We feel that these men will not
allow a political policy to stand in
the way of a principal. A principal
which allows a man to come into our
state, and state his political beliefs,
and which should allow the same
freedom to a woman. Are they going
to allow the stigma which has been
placed upon this state by band of
hired politicians to spread over the
entire nation, and not be rebuked.
Are they going to allow the women
of the East to come to this state to
obtain divorces and be welcomed
with open arms. and heap Goals of
fire upon the heads of those women,
who believe they are working for
just cause, and who come here to
work for that cause? We believe the
real manhood of our state will an
swer No.
We believe that the newly enfran-
chised women of the West will ques-
ton the real purpose of the men who
attack their sisters of the East. They
will ask IF a cause is not just
enough to stand upon its own merits
without heaping indignities upon the
heads of the women who oppose it, is
- fr npf
We were told that the women would
not stand together. We were told
that they would follow the same po-
litical boss the men followed. We
were told that politics would be as
rotten after the women voted as they
were before. Are we going to the
polls and justify that prediction? Are
we going to vote for men who are al
lowing their paid henchmen to go
about over the country and abuse our
sisters whom we have never seen.
and of whom we know nothing, ex-
cept what these men tell you. Are
we going to allow those women, who
are spending their time and their
cause of women everywhere, to come
here to be reviled, and not retaliate?
To the women of Winnemucca, we
ask, Are you going to the opera house
next Friday night, to applaud man,
whom they tell us spoke for us at
the st. Louis convention, and yet al
lows his paid campaign managers to
go forth and abuse us in not unmean-
ing words? Are you men going, to
listen to the honeyed words of a man,
who is here to tell you of his own
wonderful deeds. and yet allows those
same campaign managers to revile
your womanhood? Are you going to
identify yourselves with a political
party, which forces its candidates to
go out under the burden of the plat
form that was placed upon their
heads by Key Pittmans henchmen?
All these indignities have been
placed upon the womanhood of the
state and of the nation and yet not a
Democrat has come forth with a word
of regret that this has been done. All
these vile things have been said of
the women who have toiled TO obtain
the vote for us and the Democratic
women have chuckled with glee. and
they now purpose to go forth and
fight these same women with the
vote which these Eastern women
helped them to earn, but which a
great many didn't even think was
worth working for.
Are we going to advertise to the
world that we invite the women of
the East to come here and air their
dirty linen. That we invite them to