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Would Make Women Partisans.
Women continue to be non-partisan after they have the ballot, and
it gives them more power to secure the good things which the
women of all parties want.
Prof. Henry E. Kelly, formerly of the Iowa State University,
now practicing law in Denver, says in an open letter to
State Senator A. H. Gale, of Iowa that he went to Colorado opposed
to equal suffrage, but has been controverted by what he has seen of
it. Prof. Kelly adds:
"Experience clearly shows that women's interest cannot be aroused
in mere partisan strife. Their interests center around questions affecting
education, public cleanliness, public morality, civic beauty,
charities and correction, public health, public libraries—and such subjects
as more intimately affect home life, and conduce to the prosperity
of the family. Men lose sight of these important considerations in
the scramble of partisan warfare for office, but women will not see
them obscured by anything."
Ellis Meredith of Denver writes:
"There has never been a party measure espoused by women in the
Colorado Legislature. The women of all parties want the same
things, and have worked for them together, in perfect harmony. They
wanted a pure-food law, and secured one from the last Legislature,
in line with the national legislation. They wanted civil service reform,
and have obtained that, so far as the officers of the State institutions
are concerned. During the last Legislature, an attempt
was made to take the control of the State Bureau of Child and Animal
Protection away from the Colorado Humane Society, and to
create a political board. Every federated woman's club in the State
besieged its senators and representatives to vote against the bill, and
the vice chairmen of the state central committees of the two chief
political parties (both of them women) went together to different
members of the Legislature to enter their protest. Men understood
that in legislative matters, when they oppose the women, they are
of the State."—(Woman's Journal, Aug. 31, 1907.)
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