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WOMEN TO
VOTE IN
1912
Fnnal Stiff ra r a Mav Ro
Factor in Presiden
tial Election
Matter Which Chairmen of Na
tional Committees Will Be
Called Upon to Consider-
Some of the Laws for Which
Women Are Responsible, At
tributed Directly to Their Vote
and Influence.
T7T7 Y ASHINGTON. Almost 1,000,-
WOOO women will be eligible
to Tote for .their choice for
president of the United
Diaies in isia. inose worn'
en are to be found in the six western
Btatea which have already granted
equal suffrage, the number of women
in each state who are eligible to vote
being about as follows: California,
600,000; Colorado, 160,000; Idaho. 48.-
000; Utah, 65,000; Washington. 120,.
000, and Wyoming, 35,000, or a total
of 928,000.
Those figures are not exact, but
constitute the best possible estimate
until such time as the census bureau
gets out its figures showing the analy
sis of the population by states. It Is
possible that before the- election In
1912 more states may give the women
a chance to vote for the presidential
candidates, as the equal suffrage cam
palgners have such states 'as Nevada,
Oregon, Kansas and Wisconsin marked
as trembling In the balance on the
suffrage question.
There are in the United States to
day Just 19 states which have no form
of suffrage for women, although some
cities In them have. Those states are
Nevada, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas,
Mississippi, Indiana, Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
South Carolina, . North Carolina, Vir
ginia. West Virginia, Maryland, Penn
sylvanla, Rhode Island and Maine
On October 12 last California joined
the states granting equal suffrage to
women, the vote on that occasion be
ing 119.086 for and 117,408 against the
measure, or a majority of 1678 for
equal suffrage, with some minor towns
to hear from. California had rejected
the proposition in. 1896, Oregon and
several of the other western states
have several times rejected the
amendment, and Massachusetts In
1895 voted on the question and refused
equal suffrage, the vote In this state at
that time being: Yes, 109.204; No,
187,840, or 78,636 majority against
equal suffrage. Since then the ques
tlon has not been brought to the ref
erendum In this commonwealth.
In the western states the question
has come before the voters quite reg
ularly, for, according to some of the
opponents of the equal suffrage In that
section of the country, "a yes' vote
settles the matter and a no' vote slm
piy means me question comes up
again in a couple of years."
: Kentucky Pointed the Way.
Kentucky was the first state in this
country to give women the right to
vote. In 1838 that state gave the
school suffrage to widows with chll
dren of school age, and In 1861 Kansas
gave the school suffrage to all women
Year by year from then on the move
ment for woman's suffrage gained
strength throughout the country, but
It was always granted in modified
form as the right to vote on school
matters, local tax questions, municipal
suffrage, etc In 1869 Wyoming gave
the full suffrage to women, being the
first state in the country to do so.
School suffrage was granted to the
women of New Hampshire In 1878, by
Massachusetts in 1879. by Connecticut
in 1893 and Vermont In 1S80. In addi
tion to the six states in this country
which have given the full suffrage to
women, there are many countries
which have given a modified form of
suffrage to women and full suffrage
has been granted the women by the
Isle of Man, New Zealand, South Aus
tralia, West Australia, and in 1902 full
suffrage was granted the women of
Federated Australia and New South
Wales.
In Utah the reports show that 75
per cent of the women voted in Bear
River, 95 per cent voted in Garden
City, 95 per cent voted In Grouse
Creek, 90 per cent voted in Keysvllle,
90 per cent voted In Logan and 90 per
cent voted in Nephi.
Seem to Prize Vote.
In Wyoming the reports state that
the women voted as strongly In pro
portion to registration as did the
males, if not to a larger extent In
Denver, Colo., In the election of 1909,
no less than 30,000 women voted and
only about 500 of that number were
classified as vicious women. In other
words, in that Denver election 43 per
cent of the vote was cast by women
and only 40 per cent of the vote was
cast by males.
Both houses of the National Parlia
ment of Federated Australia for the
session of 1909-10 passed a resolution
saying that after 66 years of woman's
suffrage in varying parts of the coun
try and nine years as a common
wealth, the reform has Justified the
hopes of its supporters.
Relative to the percentage of worn
en voting in the states where they
have that right, the woman's suf
frage organizations point out. that
men do not exercise their tight to vote
as they should, and that, therefore.
the question as to women doing bo is
not very material.
They point out that In the presiden
tial election of 1904, the vote cast was
only 13,961,660. while 21,000,000 men
were eligible to vote. Then again, they
say that in the city election In Phlla
delphla In 1903, the Reform party re
ports that 49 per cent of the men fall
ed to vote, and that In the same year
In the election In New York city 60,000
registered voters failed to cast their
ballots.
Their Choice of Political Offices.
In the states where full suffrage
has been granted to women for some
time experience has shown that worn'
en do not to any great extent run for
political office. Going through the
records of those states it will appear
that, for the most part, women have
been candidates for educational post
tlons and for the office of county or
state treasurer. Those are the two
classes of offices which they seem to
have singled out as belDg most desir
able from their standpoint, and to
which they have been most generally
elected.
In several of the states giving full
equal suffrage women have sat on Ju
rles and have done acceptable service
but there are no statistics available to
show the number who have done such
duty.
Laws Women Have Helped to Make,
The male mind naturally Inquires as
to what laws the women in the equal
suffrage states have been responsible
for? For this question the women's
suffrage organizations have evidently
primed themselves. Here are some of
the laws adopted In the equal suffrage
states since women had the right to
vote, which they maintain have been
championed by women, and that worn
en are practically responsible.
Colorado gave equal suffrage In
1893, and since that time the women
claim responsibility for securing the
passage of laws forbidding the Insur-
ance of children under ten years old
establishing a state home for ilepen
dent children, with two of the five
members of Its trustees to be women;
statute requiring three out of the six
county visitors to be women; estab
lishing a state industrial home for
girls, three of the five trustees to be
women; statute making women equal
guardians of their children; statute
raising the age of protection for girls
to 18 years; requiring one woman on
the board of the State Insane asylum;
establishing parental or truant schools.
providing for the care of the feeble
minded; providing for tree preserva
tion; requiring public school teachers
to teach humanity to animals; making
the Humane society a state bureau of
child and animal protection; establish
ment of Juvenile courts; compulsory
education; establishing state traveling
libraries, commission of five women;
against the employment of child labor
In mines; providing accident and for
eign Ufe Insurance companies that
have to be sued be made to pay the
costs; restricting hours of labor for
children, and for women; free em
ployment bureaus; making It a misde
meanor to neglect to support aged or
Infirm parents; abolishing system
binding out girls of the Industrial
school; and in Denver otber beneficial
legislation has been secured by them
Work of Women In Idaho.
Idaho gave equal suffrage In 1896.
Since then women claim to have been
Instrumental in securing these laws.
Making gambling illegal; raising the
age of protection for girls to 18
years; establishment of libraries and
reading rooms; requiring 3 per cent of
the school funds to be expended for
school libraries, the books to be chos
en by the State Board of Education;
establishing the State Library com
mission; providing for a department
of domestic science in the State unl
versity; providing for a course of do
mestic science 'in the Academy of
Idaho; establishment of the industrial
reform school; pure food act; statute
giving married women the same right
to dispose of her property as men.
Utah gave full suffrage to women In
1896. Since then the women claim
these laws as a result of their efforts:
Requiring that women: teachers be
paid the same salaries as male teach'
era; raising the age of protection of
girls to 18 years; establishing free
public libraries in cities and towns;
requiring in all educational Institu
tions supported by publlo funds in
struction in physiology and hygiene;
creating a state art institute; provld
ing free lecture courses each year at
the capital on sanitary science, hy
glene and nursing; curfew bell; mak
ing It a misdemeanor to sell tobacco,
etc., to minors; providing for the pro
tection of dependent boys under 14
and girls under 16 years and the pun
ishment of persons responsible fot
their care, neglect or Ill-treatment; re
quiring the establishment of kinder
gartens in all school districts of a
population of 2,000 or more.
Record In Wyoming.
Wyoming gave equal suffrage in
1869. These jaws made since that
time women claim chief responsibility
for: Equal pay for men and womet
teachers; raising the age of protection
for girls to 18 years; making child
neglect, abuse, etc., punishable; for
bidding the employment of boys under
14 and girls of any age In the mines;
forbidding the employment of children
under 14 years in any publlo exhibi
tion. In ten years of equal suffrage In
Colorado only one woman has been
convicted of illegal-voting. Relative
to the Intelligence of women as voters
the equal suffrage organizations polnl
out that the 1907 report of the Na
tional Educational commission says
54,183 girls were graduated from the
public high schools as compared tc
33,202 boys from the same schools,
and there were 116,841 more girU
than boys in the publlo high schools.
A Historical Fact
Woman's Suffrage Advocate (to pol
itlclan) I maintain that woman hat
always been the prime factor In thlf
world.
Politician (blandly) Oh, I don't
know. In the very beginning woman
was only a side issue, Answers.
FOR SALAD COURSE
80ME NEW IDEAS A3 TO COMPO.
8ITION AND SERVICE.
Mixture Now Frequently It Eaten at
the Beginning of Dinner Pine
apple One of the Best for
the Digestion.
They are serving salads with a dif
ference. A salad nowadays is very
frequently eaten at the beginning of
dinner and voted a digestive second
to none.
Of all fruits pineapple is of the
greatest value to the dyspeptlo and
contains the most delicate acid. The
following recipe for a pineapple salad
will be found an excellent one, and it
is, moreover, a very pretty dish to
serve at the beginning of luncheon or
dinner:
Pineapple In Lettuce Nests Cut a
pineapple into small pieces. Add one
cupful of finely chopped celery, one
cupful of walnut meats and one cup
ful of orange pulp. Shred one head
of lettuce very finely and form Into
nests on individual plates.
Mix one cupful of mayonnaise and
stir It lightly with the pineapple, etc.;
add more mayonnaise if the fruit Is
not sufficiently moist, and heap into
the little lettuce nests.-. Decorate with
chopped walnuts.
Salado a La Versailles Boll six
artichokes, separate the "fonds" from
the leaves and cut into small pieces.
Put in a salad bowl with an equal
quantity of asparaguB points that have
been cooked In salted water. Take a
handful of salted almonds, chop them'
fine, pound them with the Juice of two
lemons and half a pint of cream, salt
and pepper, and pour over the salad.
A little mayonnaise may be added
to the salad, but It is more delicate
In flavor without it
With cold chicken nothing is more
excellent than a salad of carrots, cu
cumbers and bard boiled eggs, all cut
in rings and sent to table with this
dressing: Two tablespoonfuls of olive
oil with one of lemon Juice, with salt
pepper and a speck of sugar to taste.
Mushroom Salad Remove the skin
and almost all" the stalk from some
button mushrooms, drop them Into
boiling salted water and cook foi
three minutes.
Lay them on a napkin and when
quite cold sprinkle them with pepper
and salt and finely chopped parsley.
Lay on a dish and pour over two table
spoonfuls of oil to one of tarragon
vinegar. f
Shrimp Salad a La Bretagne Shell
a quart of boiled shrimps and lay them
on young lettuce leaves in a salad
bowL Chill some mayonnaise sauce
on ice, pour over the shrimps and
serve. -
Tongue Salad Mix together and
put in a fine dredger a small quantity
each of celery, salt, red pepper and
black pepper, white sugar and -allspice.
Take some thin slices of Rus
sian tongue, squeeze a little lemon
Juice over the pieces and lightly
dredge with the above mixture.
Shave up some white onions and
celery and put them in the salad bowl
with a few white lettuce hearts. Add
the tongue next, then pour several
spoonfuls of oil over the whole with
a dash of vinegar. Serve at once.
Serving Potatoes.
A delicious way of serving potatoes
Is the following: Boll and mash 12
medium sized white potatoes, using
one tablespoonful of butter instead of
milk. When they are uearly cold add
the yolks of three eggs, one teaspoon
full of grated nutmeg, and six drops ot
onion Juice. . Stir these Ingredients to
gether until they are smooth. Make
up Into small cone shaped croquettes
and stand away to harden. When they
are firm roll them in the beaten white
of the eggs and cracker dust and fry
in deep boiling fat until a light
brown.