Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-02-10

Il. Wh1tehOuse. Anyone taking all
SIX courses and passing successful
test will be given a certificate of grad
uation.- Not content, however, with
educating city suffragists, the leaders
OF the School advertise Correspond
ence Course for out-of-toWn women
who wish to fill their heads with SUI
frage knowledge that is thorough and
accurate.
Political Parties in 1916.
When the Republican and Democrat
ic parties meet in conventions next
June, they will find that equal sui
frage has a very different status from
what it had at former conventions. AT
the time of the presidential electiN
of 1912, the states in which women
voted controlled 81 electoral votes. A.
the next presidential election, the
states where women vote will conlro
81 electoral votes - more than New
York and New Jersey combined
Since 1912, six states-Arizona, Kan
sas, Oregon, Illinois. Montana AMI
NevRda-have given womenathe right
to vote. II Iowa, where the question
of Woman's REIMBURSEMENT come.
before the voters on June 5th, joins
the, equal suffrage commonwealth, L
more electoral votes will be added t.
the 81 of the enfranchised states.
Ballots and Babies.
"They say that if she voted, thf
babies would be neglected But a.
soon as the women of Kansas were
given the ballot the babies, came t.
the fore right away. More has been
d0nn fS0u. hn hob 0F So h.
three years We have had equal sn
frage than in all the fifty years pre-
ceeding."
Kansas Sabetha Star
A Pertinent Question.
Alta recent suffrage hearing befor
the Judiciary Committee of the Hous
of Representatives, Congressman Tag
CART after listening to a good anti
suffrage speech by Miss Lucy Pric
asked her a very pertinent If amusin
question.
"How can woman of your ability"
he said, 'fbe contented with the POI
tical status of a child?"
The School Vote.
The women of Ohio took a grea
interest in the school vote this yea
and hundreds of women were electee
to school boards. In some towns hur
dreds end even thousands of wome,
turned out to vote. In Cleveland, tn.
members of the Woman Suffrage Pa
ty tagged 10000 door knobs with 70
minders of the election and both il
Cleveland and Cincinnati the womes
suffrage associations distributed man,
pamphlets to voters giving detailet
Information about the Board of Elec
ton candidates. Mrs. Cora M. Kel
logg of Columbus was not only re-
elected to the school board but -sr
ahead Of the entire city ticket. Ohf 4
women have certainly demonstrated
the fact that when given the vote
women do use it.
Australian Women.
Not single voice of complaint has
been raised Throughout the. length
and breadth Of Australia and New
Zealand that the granting of. the votes
to woman. has led to diminishing
interest in domestic affairs or has
in any way impaired woman's influ
ence in the home or caused her to
neglect home life in the pursuit of
politics. III. p. Gordon, Editor of The
Standard Of Australia :.
iowa VleroFy.
On January 18th the Supreme Court
of the State of Iowa by a vote Of A.
declared that women were entitled to
vote in the. election which Established
the Municipal Court. Iowa women
have the right to vote upon public ap-
preparation of funds and when the
Municipal Court question was submit
ted to city referendum, they voted
A suit was thereupon brought by oppe-
nents declaring the election illegal Oh
account of the women voters. The.
Judges of the Supreme Court not on
ly INDICATED the women but declared
for woman suffrage.