Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1904 — WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN COLORADO. [ARTICLE]

WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN COLORADO.

By Hon. F. Shaforth, member bouse of representative* in Colorado: “I want to say a word in behalf of woman suffrage because we think we have solved the question in Colorado. There is no nse in rehearsing the argument* in favor or against the question of woman suffrage; you are all familiar with them. . But in Colorado we have practical experience. We have had what we think is a demonstration that woman suffrage is a success, and a complete refutation of the arguments that are made that woman suffrage will have a tendency to degrade or lower the standard of woman. .It is often claimed by those who are against woman suffrage that as quick as you give tbe power- to vote to woman, immediately she will be contaminated by having to go to the polls. Now I want to say that in Colorado tbe direct opposite Ims been the experience. Instead of the caucus for the primary being held in questionable places, they are held in the parlors of the most fashionable people in Denver. Instead of those caucuses being attended by a few persons, I they are public and well attended by many. I -As a rule a greater per cent of , ladies vote than men, arid instead of their being contaminated by anything of a bad nature at the polls, tiie effect has been that there are no loafers, there are no drunkards, there are no persons of questionable characters standing around the polls.”