The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-07

that they have it, my fear is that the
 leaders will not stop with the ballot for
 women. They are too fond of the spot.
 light. It has become a necessity fol
 them. If all women should fall in with
 them. there would be nothing of woman
 hood left and the world bereft of its
 women will become masculine harlotoc- racy.
 Let me repeat, that have been fight
 ing woman's battles in one way or an- other all my life. am not opposed tc Votes for Women. But, I would dis criminate and educate and even at that rate, would limit the franchise to actual taxpayers, and outside of these, confine to charities. corrections and schools keeping women away from the dirt of politics. do not believe the ballot will benefit any woman. and can not help thinking that in seeking unlimited and precipitate suffrage. the women who fa- vor it, are off their reckoning.
 Then "Marse Henry touches very hu- fnorously on the 'Iiikers" who started form New York to Albany (we recall the incident of some years ago) under the command of General Rosalie Jones and declares that the inspiring thought of Bertha von IIiilern comes back to me at this time.'
 I'm sure the reader never even heard of her. says Marse Henry, "but as it makes a pretty story let me tell it. Many years ago (don't ask me how many) there was young woman, Bertha von Hilern money enough to take her abroad, who engaged with the management of a hall In Louisville to walk one hundred miles around fixed track in twenty-four con secutive hours. She did it. Her share of the gate money I am told amounted to 5000"
 Then he tells of how "tlle pretty fair haired young thing shapenly and sinewy, stick 1t out until the very last, nearer dead than alive, but game to the core when the hike" was over and every heart in the vast audience throbbed with human sympathy for the poor little thing as storm of exultation broke forth when the final lap was made
 Touching the Albany and Washing ton hike and hikers,'' says Marse Henry, "let me say at once that I cannot ap- prove of the cause of Votes for Women, yonl Hillern. Where she showed heroic, most of the suffragettes appear to me- grotesque. Where her aim was rational, theirs has been visionary. To me, the younger of them, seem as children who need to be spanked and kissed. There frase business something pitiful and cos mic.
 ! Often I have felt like swearing You 1diots-' and then like crying Poor Dears, but I have kept on with them,' says Marse Henry. and had been in Albany salie Jones in my arms and before sine could say Jack Robinson have ex- claimed
 You ridiculous child Go and get a bath and put on some pretty clothes and come and join us at dinner in the State 1 Banquet hall, duly made and provided for you and the rest of you delicious sillies.s'
 Referring to the ideal statesman," il is Interesting to quote "Marse Henry just here.
 He declares:
 'The nearest approach to the ideal statesman have known was most gross ly stigmatized while he lived. I have Mir. Tilden in mind. If ever man pursued an ideal life he did. From youth to age he dwelt amid his fancics. He was truly a man of the world among men of letters and a man of letters among men of the world. A philosopher pure and simple-a lover of books, of pictures. of all things beautiful and elevating-he yet attained great riches, and being doctrinaire and having a passion for affairs he was able Ito sratify the aspirations to eminence and the yearning to be of service to the state which filled his heart.
 He was an idealist; he lost the White House because he was so, though repre- scented while he lived by his enemies as a scheming spider weaving his web amid the coil of nlystification in which he hid himself. For he was personally known to few in the city where he had made his abode: great lawyer and a jurist, who rarely appeared in court; great politi- cal leader to whom the musings were mainly stranger; thinker and yet 8 dreamer, who lived his own life little apart, as q poet might, uncorrupting and incouuptible: least of all were his pcliti- cal companions moved by the loss of the presidency, which had seemed within his grasp.
 ITO his familiars Mi, Tilden was dear