Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 207, 5 July 1912 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUX-TELEGKA3I, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1912. t

CLUB FEDERATION :: ELECTS OFFICERS 'Mrs. Pennypacker Chosen President. Mrs. Sarah ' Decker Is Stricken.

CNational News Association) SABf FRANCISCO, July 5. The conAtttnn '' nf Mrn Sarah Tllaok Decker.

lV.WM " former' president of the General Fed1 eratlon of Women's clubs, took a turn for the worse today and she was hurried to the operating room of the hospital. Mrs. Decker was stricken with intestinal congestion while in attendance at the- convention which is in session here. Her serious illness caat a gloom over the entire assembly. With 4he election of officers out of the way, the chief topic among the delegates to the biennial convention of the General Federation of Women's clubs was the selection of a meeting place for the next gathering. 'The main social feature of today was a luncheon given by the-Chicago women delegates at the Palace hotel at. which the newly elected officers iwere entertained." Chicago is one of jthe promising asplnants for the meetling of 1914. . Following is the"; national ticket elected: , Mrs. Pennypacker,, president, , won by J)l votes over MrsA Philip Carpenter, of New York. Theballot was 556 to 255. t First Vice President Mrs. R. I. Blankenburg, Philadelphia. , Second Vice President MrsASamuel B. Bneath, Ohio. , Recording Secretary Mrs. Harry L. Keefe, Nebraska. Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Eugene Reilley, North Carolina. . Treasurer Mrs. John Tnreadgill. Oklahoma. , Auditor Mrs. Charles H. McMahon, Utah. Directors Mrs. Wm. E. Andrews, Washington. D. C. ; Mrs. Francis D. Everett, Illinois; Mrs. Grace. Julian Clark, Indiana; Mrs. J. Crelghton Mathewes, Louisiana; Mrs. We P, Harper, Washington; Mrs. A. S. Christay, Montana; Mrs. Frank White, North Dakota. Mrs. Lucy White Williams, Michigan.

SENATOR GATES Oil SUFFRAGE

Says Entrance of Women into Voting Privileges in California Has Been a Good Thing. Demogogery Is Eliminated and Straight Issues Discussed.

GOLDEN EAGLES ARE

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1 Committee of the Knights of the Golden Eagle are working hard onUhe program and arrangements for the annual state convention of the order to be held, In this city August third and fourth. The committees on the program and arrangements have not made their reports to the lodge yet, tyit are expected to do so soon. The committee on arrangements is working on plans to entertain about four hundred visiting delegates for the convention. J. B. Beckwlth, secretary and treasurer of the local lodge, reports that the convention promises to be a most successful one.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. "Woman's entrance into the privilege of full citizenship has been a good thing for the state," said Senator Lee C. Gates, of California, who spoke at the Garfield meeting in this city on Tuesday evening, and who, as a well known resident of that commonwealth, was a delegate to the National Republican convention in Chicago. "It has done two things. "First it has eliminated the scurrilous from the campaign speech since, with both men and women present, this form of demagogery has had to go the way of other political hoodooing. "Vituperation and scandalous innuendo are no longer heard in the political speeches made in our state. Because they will not be permitted. "Campaigning is now confined to the straight and logical presentation and argument, varied, of course, by oratorical fervor and the individual partisan prejudices of the speakers but all the objectionable has been eliminated. "It has been a fine thing in that it has enabled the public to get at the true gist of a situation without sifting the fact from a mesh, of irrevelant and misleading verbiage.

"In the second place, it has made the entrance of any but the man with a clean record impossible. "No matter how brilliant his record, nor how able and desirable officially he may be, no man can longer run for offloe In our state who has a taint on his good name. "The women won't have it. "For it is the very best element among the women who vote and who exevrcise their political influence. "It is not possible to say, of course," saidMr. Gates, "just what women will do, what candidate they will support or what phase of the political question

they wtfll espouse.

, "Butt this can be said, that while voting on party lines, they are for progressive .measures since they are untiampered by tradition and unshackled "by 'previous partyaffiliations. . "It Js Impertinent, as I regard, it, for mentto saythat as soon as women say they want the franchise it will be given 1 them. "But that a majority must indicate their preferences before any definite consideration will be given or action taken. "If only one- woman wants to vote she should have the privilege of doing so. "All men don't vote. "Supposing some one were to say thatunlesa nine out of ten men on the block wanted to vote the others wouldn't be allowed to.

"Supposing a man would not be allowed to vote, even if he had reached

the voting age, unless he were to indicate how he would vote and which

way he would throw his influence. "It would be just as reasonable as to insist on such conditions before women are permitted to exercise their right of citizenship. "For it is a mere right of citizenship. "It makes no difference how the women will vote or whether or not only a minority of them will do so if they have the chance, or whether any of them really want to. "They should be put on a plane of equality with men in this matter and then exercise their privilege as men do. It is a personal matter. "In Los Angeles, as you probably know since it was widely commented upon by the papers of the country at the time, they registered more generally than men and cast a heavier vote. "And they did not, as predicted, support the Socialist candidate in any large number. On account of the fact that the Socialists include equal suffrage in their platforms and propaganda it was thought that the women would, regardless of other predilec

tions, support Mr. Harriman, in this instance, but they did nothing of tha sort. "Women are keener than men. "Their natural curiosity causes them to Investigate more thoroughly than men. Their minds are, as a rule, more systematic and orderly, and, because of this, they arrive at a juster estimate of a situation or question sooner than an equal number of men. "Women, also, are more given to details. "Hence they sift to the very bottom, marshall their facts, array their arguments and get a thing down to a working basis in a way that has been something of a surprise, and also a matter of consternation, to the old line politicians among the men. "And when they get right down to rock bottom they generally have the thing sized up accurately. "Women you know," said Mr. Gates facetiously, "have been so used to 'hot air' from the men not politically but on the personal basis that they are cautious in the acceptance of statement. They have spent a good many centuries in pretending to believe when they didn't and it has been an excellent discipline. "They listen but they go away and find out for themselves whether its true or not. "They don't take the word of mere man. " 'Works, not faith,' is now their slogan, and It Is going to serve them to a

good end and the country also. "ItB only a matter of time when the franchise will be universal. "In California, and the other states in which women have equal voting privileges with men, no great revolutions, as I stated, have occurred. But things are evolving, on the basis indicated, toward cleaner and straighter political procedure. "Women are progressive, but they're cautious. "There has been no hysteria attendant upon their advent in politics and will be none. "We sent the two women delegates to the convention not alone because they were splendid women but because they were representative of the sentimnt in their localities. "They conducted themselves In a dignified manner and did nothing to indicate that they were not as well qualified to sit in a political body of this sort as the men. "I understand here in Indiana you are way behind the times that your women have no voting privileges. But you won't have to wait long." "Well, anyway, we elected a woman to the school board," said the reporter.

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W. METTERT DEAD HAGERSTOWN, Ind., July 5. Willie Mettert, aged 25 years, died of diphtheria this morning at his home at MilvJlle. A wife and two sons survive. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. David Mettert of Hagerstown. Harold, the seven year old child of Ed Petro, of Hagerstown, has diphtheria. It is feared that it will result in an epidemic.

FELL IN HIS CELL; BROKE A BIG TOE A victim of a very peculiar accident was Charles Yancroft, a Winchester man. who is serving out a sentence at the county jail, having been incarcerated at the county institution on con

viction of the charge of assault and battery. While asleep in his cell Wednesday night Vancroii fell from his cot to the floor, striking his right foot tn such a manner as to break the large toe. The accident was very painful.

PROSECUTOR 3IADE BURGLARY CHARGE While in the east railroad yards at about 2: SO o'clock this morning. L A. Burns, detective employed by the PennsylTania railroad company, heard a noise in one of the box cars and up

on Investigation found a man who gave hia name as W. A. Houch. diligently working with some boxes. This morning Prosecutor Ldd placed a charge of burglary against Mm la the Wayne circuit court. It Is said that Houch broke the lock on the car.

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