Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-12
Ballots for Both
in The
Pine Tree State

The following testimony from a
Maine woman. who was formerly a
resident of California and has voted in
that State is significant, in consider
alton of the fact that the men of Maine
vii vote on the suffrage question, at a
special election on Sept 10.
Mrs. Maude L. Moore of Bar Harbor,
writeS:-
Before we were granted the fran
chise in California, we studied very
closely the laws of the state, also par
liamentary laws of state and nation.
believe that each woman realized her
responsibility when she was given the
right to stand beside her husband and
brother to cast her vote. The writer
certainly realized what high honor
was bestowed on her by the men of
California, when she cast her vote for
county and city officers. and was given
the greater honor of casting her vote
for President Of the United States.
She thanked God and then the men of
her city, in her heart.
Il cannot recall all that was done in
the way of changing unjust laws but
1 do know that there were cleaner poll
tics. Our voting places were clean and
quiet, and it was good to see the
mothers with their children, as nearly
always they had one or more with
them, as they came to cat their vote
with their husbands. One old couple.
who were 80 and IS respectively, came
In arm in arm, with smiles, to cast
their votes for Woodrow Wilson. 1t
took no longer than to do our necessary
shopping at the market. Then we were
nome at work again happy knowing
that we had done our work right.
NOW our men of Maine, our dear
old state, are no different than in
California. They are all loving fathers
and brothers, and when they know that
the women of Maine want to stand
shoulder to. shoulder with them in the
cause OF humanity, to help make clean
er and safer the great home. the world
for our boys and girls. and that we
won't neglect our households, but Wen
do better work, because our hearts will
be glad, there will be more love and
respect for each other because we are
equal.
Ihey will, I believe, do all in their
power to have US stand side by side
WIN them, at this time, when women
as Wen as men are answering thir
country's call and they know thy the
responding with the courage Of men.
There is cot one woman in a hundred
who wants to enter politics, bur she
does want voice in helping to pass
laws that will protect her children in
their fight in the world"
Under the direction of Mrs. Kath-
arine n. Willard of the Massachusetts,
Suffrage Association, the following suf-
frage campaign committee has been
formed at Steep Falls, chairman, Mrs
Sadie Ridlon: vice chairman, Mrs.
Maud Rand: secretary and treasurer,
Mrs. Eva Coolbroth; chairman Of petit
tons, Miss Martha E. Tucker. Also
under Mrs. MiIlards direction the fol-
lowing petitions committee is at work
at Sebago Lake; Mrs. n. E. Sawyer,
Mrs. Philip DeCormier. and Mrs. Frank
B. Shaw.
Speaking in the Waterville Opera
house, recently, to the striking employ
es Of the railroad, j. r. HUMPHREYS Of
Chicago, paid high tribute to Mrs
Deborah. Knox Livingston, chairman of
the State suffrage campaign committee.
and to the suffrage cause. Mr.. Humph-
ries heard Mrs. Livingston in the az
ternoon and said IL he had not pre-
viously believed in suffrage he would
have after hearing her address. He