Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1901 — WANTS THE RIGHT TO VOTE. [ARTICLE]

WANTS THE RIGHT TO VOTE.

teUlonlz Woman Aiipwia to CoaHl (at ttao Pnvilrg*, Mrs. Ellen E. Sargent, widow of ths ute Senator Aaron A. Sargent of California, i» determined to exercise the right of suffrage.’* “As a right, I demand to have my name placed on the register of voters, and that I be permitted to cast my ballot the same as any other citizen,” Is the way in which she recently presented her claim in the superior court of San Francisco. She rh!a ke i Up thl * demand tor the fraac , b y securing a writ of mandate requiring the registrar of voter* and the board of election comminionm t m appear before Judge Sloss of the parlor court and show cause why they refuse to recognize Mrs. Sargent aa a legal voter in that city. The reeord *f the board of election commissioner* show* that Mrs. Sargent’s demand foe registration was formally made and the members of the board unanimously rejected her application on the ground that it Is "contrary to the constltntio* and laws of the state of California.** In vupport of this they point to the provisions of section 1 of article I of the California constitution, which says: "Every male citizen of the Uni* ed States • • • shall be entitled to vote at all elections, ** eta "But the election com mission see have cited only one section of the sow•tltutlon, and ignore the fact that thMig is another section which says political power of the state is inherent in the people, and that means all the people.” Mrs. Sargent says. She deduces that If the constitution had not meant all the people It would have said political power is inherent Its the people, or the maaculine part of the people. She takes the poeltlon that women are “the people" as well ea taen. No matter which way the tt is decided, an appeal will be taken t» the supremg court —Chicago ChrOßIda