The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-07-08
STATE OPINION.
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"Ah, There, Etoridat.

An, mere, FlorIda!"
Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Flor
ida is going to have opposition. Two
candidates for his seat in the senate
nave already announced, Governor
Cats being one of them
Senator Fletcher has more than
made good at Washington, and is
today one of the strongest men the
south has in the senate. 1t would be
great mistake for Florida to retire
as able and experienced a senator as
he Is today. The best man the people
OF the state might elect could not hope
to reach within the next ten years the
position of usefulness and influence
which Senator Fletcher has already
attained.
Our sister state has been known to
pull off some surprising political
stunts in the not very remote past, but
surely there ought to be enough in
telligent and patriotic people in the
state to take care of Senator Fetch
err in the present threatened crisis.
Changing senators and representatives
in congress is, in the very nature of
conditions at the national capital, as
we'll as at home an unwise thing to
do, and it should be done only when
an incumbent proves unworthy or
Or. Anna Howard Shaw.
We believe it is not disparaging the
honors due to other great American
women to say that with the death of
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw there has
passed away the greatest OF American
women.
The daughter of immigrant parents
struggling for existence in a Michigan
wilderness, she early learned that rug
gedness OF mind, cleanliness of thought
and absolute trusting faith in her
Maker were necessary for winning the
struggle against the wild and the I'M
tanned of nature as well as of the hu-
man heart. She was no faddist burt
she was an earnest a seeker after ad-
vancement for her sex as any woman
who ever assumed to say what should
be the guiding star for woman's adj
vancement.
She was not bigot. but she was set
sternly TO the carrying out of great
plan for the emancipation of women
which plan she had seen adopted by
the nation which she was a unit of and
a worker in.
Her three great aims were in reality
one: Temperance. suffrage and social
purity. She believed, as We all know
now, that the three were practically
inseparable. She lived to see national
temperance a fixed policy of the ma
tion. women given the ballot, and such
a nation wide fight against the social
evil as probably was never even ex-
pected by her in the early years of
her activity.
AS a suffrage worker, the term of
her administration as president of the
National Woman's Suffrage Associa-
ton, was marked by the most Won
derful advancement of the cause. The
number OF suffrage workers increased
from 1900 to 100000: one campaign
in ten years was replaced by ten cam /
paigns in one year; the expenditures
of the association increased from
81 3, 900 to $4,000 annually; the num- |
Der of states with full suffrage grew |
from four to twelve, while the whole |
suffrage movement changed from an
academic stage to vital political |
force arousing the attention of the en-
tire nation.
Not until after the complete vic
tory was Won was she called to rest
from her labors; and she passes out
with the love, the esteem and the full
of her worth, of every
one who followed her life.-Tampa