 | University of Virginia record October 1, 1914 |  |
The Bad Women's Vote.
In America the bad women are so few, compared with the good
ones, that their votes could have little influence. Mrs. Helen Gilbert
Ecob, wife of a prominent clergyman who was for some years a
pastor in Denver, writes:
"The bad women represent, in any city of the United States, but
an infinitesimal proportion of its population, and the vote of that
class in Denver is confined practically to three precincts out of 120."
Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker, of Denver, ex-president of the General
Federation of Women's Clubs, and also for some years president of
the Colorado State Board of Charities and Correction, writes:
"Does not the vote of the disreputable class of women overbalance
the better element? No; the women of the half-world are not
willing to vote. They are constantly changing their residence and
their names. They do not wish to give any data concerning themselves,
their age, name or number and street; they prefer to remain
unidentified."
Ex-Gov. Warren, of Wyoming, sums it all up when he says, in
a letter to Horace G. Wadlin, of Massachusetts:
"Our women nearly all vote; and since, in Wyoming as elsewhere,
the majority of women are good and not bad, the result is good
and not evil."
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