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POLITICAL ANNOUNCE
pf MENTS.
m . The Independent is authoriz
p cd to announce the following
persons as candidates for public
I office, subject to the action of
f the Democratic party:
For County Superintendent—
k J. M. Balch.
k • , Garland E. Land.
C A. J. Garner,
k Z. D. Barber •,
| fi. L. Thomas
Ik For .Congress —
|l;; Wm. A. Hodges.
|f% W. D. Davenport,
jjj W. A. Oldfield
For County Treasurer—
|N W. D. McLain.
i Charles K. Coe.
\ For County Judge:
Ife .John A. Melville,
t iR. F. Tyer. ‘
I m. If. Tims.
I W. A. Mink.
For Sheriff and Collector—
I Terry Guin. £ -
jj| J. M. Ivy. , m
"Fdr Representative: •.“ilfcfejl
S. T. Simmons
County Clerk:
■ 3. F. Parish.
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Woman Suffrage Is Now
a World-Wide Question
(By Frederic J. Haskih.)
Washington, Jan. 23.—The United ;
States is not the only country which
is considering the enfranchisement
of its women. Woman suffrage is
now a world question. Premier Lloyd
George has pledged the parliament
ary vote to the women of Great Brit
ain, and a measure to that effect has
already passed the house of commons
by a vote of seven to one. A wo
man suffrage measure is now pend
ing in the French chamber of dep
uties; the Italian premier has prom
ised suffrage to the women of Italy
on behalf of his party; Hungary is
pledged to enfranchise Hungarian
women, and the matter has even been
debated in the German Reichstag.
In Canada the government has giv
en suffrage to women as a war meas
ure, extending the parliamentary
vote to all women who are mothers,
wives, widows, sisters or daughters
of soldiers and there are few Cana
dian women who cannot meet one of
these requirements. The city of
Prague in Bohemia is considering a
new franchise plan which includes
woman suffrage. The women of
Sweden, having long enjoyed the
right to municipal suffrage, are now
promised full suffrage by the king.
Alfred of Belgium has .also promised
it to women of Belgium as one of his
first acts if his kingdom is ever re
stored to him.
Everywhere in Europe the women |
are gaining the confidence of na
tions. In Finland, where women
have had the ballot for several years,
they ar*« taking an important part in
the reorganization of their govern
ment necessitated by- the Russian
revolution. The socialist party leads
by a large majority in the Finnish
parliament, and among its members
are many women deputies. A woman
is a member of the Finnish national
committee on education; another wo
man, formerly a factory inspector, is
a member of the committee on labor,
and a woman deputy is member of an
extremely important , committee
which considers all bills before they ,
are introduced into parliament.
In the belligerent countries women
are being' relied on more and more.
At the beginningHH^the war, Great
Britain let it be known that the wo
men would be allowed to help, but
with limitations, for the government
had had experience with a certain
type of woman in the Boer war,
which it did not want repeated. Then
a few society women, thrilled by op
portunity of a new sensation, had
followed the armies into South Afri
ca, where they had made themselves
as ornamental and as useless as pos
sible, and had finally been ordered
home by a British general.
The Boer war was not such a long
time ago, but women—even society
women—have made tremendous pro
gress since then. 'The British gov
ernment was not long in recognizing
the difference. In the first year of
this war women were put in charge
of hospitals after men had failed;
women entered munitions plants to
fill the places of men at the front;
they organized themselves into bands
of workers and tilled the fields, made
clothes and repaired shoes, until Bri
tish men could no longer ignore the
value of the women’s services.
To win the war, the British women
neglected their own cause, which was
to win the parliamentary ballot.
Since 1869, single women over twen
ty-one had been permitted to vote in
municipal matters, but a married
woman was denied this privilege, it
being taken for granted that her hus
band would represent her. Laws un
favorable to women have not disap
peared as rapidly in Europe as they
have in this country, so that the wo
men of Great Britain have fought for
the ballot not so much as a right, but
as the means by which they might
remove legal injustices.
The feminist movement originated
in Europe at the same time that it
did in the United States, the Anti
Slavery convention at London in 1849
providirt^fheknecessary jolt. Up to
that time jHte*Women of Europe 'h
not realized that their exclusion from
the ballot was tht result of any delib
erate intent. But when American wo
men delegates were refused admit
tance by a convention of men, who
had depended upon their co-operation
in the abolition movement at home
the European women suddenly real
ized where they stood. From that
time on they knew; that the status of
women was inferior to that of men
and that the basis of that inferiority
was the ballot. And it is significant
that the date of this convention mark
ed the beginning of women’s organi
zations in nearly every country in
Europe.
Woman suffroge became a world
wide movement. At Washington, in
1902, the first international woman’s
convention was held for the purpose
of discussing the extension of equal
suffrage. It was attended by women
representatives from Canada, Ger
many, Great Britain, Norway, Swe
den, Australia, Chile, Russia and this
country. An international committee
was formed to keep in touch with suf
frage questions in every country, and
two years later this committee held a
meeting in Berlin, where fhe first In
ternational Women’s Suffrage Alli
ance was established. Through this
alliance, of which an American wo
man, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, is
now president, suffragists keep in
communication with each other all
over the world.
Meantime, in several countries wo
men had won the ballot. In Finland,
Norway, New Zealand and Australia
women now enjoyed universal suf
frage, and in Denmark, Iceland and
Sweden they had the municipal fran
chise. No sooner did the women of.
these .countries come into their power
than they started the enactment of
laws protecting women and children,
and the repeal of the ancient laws un
favorable to them. Thus in Finland it
was necessary to abolish a man’s
light of guardianship over his wife; I
to establish certain rights of mothers j
over their children, and to put the .
property relation between man and
wife on an equitable basis.
In New Zealand women got the
right to make contracts with their
own money, though married, through
the ballot; they made conditions of
divorce equal between women and
men; they passed a widow’s pension
act, and they made it a law that wo
men teachers should receive the same
pay for the same work as men.
The women of Denmark, Iceland j
and Sweden were not able to accom- |
plish as much with the municipal J
franchise only, but they were able to J
accomplish enough to make the other
wpmpn of Europe, living under no I
franchise at all, bitter to the point of |
rebellion. Many British women be- j
came militants, German women eir- j
culated seditious tracts, and in Rus- j
■ia the women joined the ranks of the |
y, .■
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Nihilists and revolutionaries by the
hundreds.
At this point when the women and
their opponents had arrived at a.
deadlock, came the European war.
The women talked it over at huge
mass meetings and decided that their
cause must be sacrificed to their
country. When the government is
sued a call for help, 'the French wo
men forgot their special grudges. In
Great Britain the same thing hap
pened. The news from Germany has
been meager recently, but in:the be
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ginning it became known that Ger
women were even taking the
place of men as the stokers of blast
fhrnaces.
NOTICE.
The business men of Newport are
hereby notified to remove the snow
and ice from the sidewalks in front
of their places of business. Please
do not make it necessary to call at
tention to this for the s,econd time.
A. T. HUBLY, Mayor.
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JEWELRY 11
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H is a glaring advertisement of very poor
g taste. Wear the best—somethiug that H
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§ We have always in stock the best of |j§
=§ Diamonds Watches
g Beaches Watch Chains
g Wrist Watches Lockets
Mesh Bags Cigarette Cases
oS Lavalliers Rings
g Bracelets Silver Vanities
Scarf Pins Belt Buckles
Link Buttons Fountain Pens
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De We Are Exclusive Agents for
I Victor Victrolas and
Columbia Grafonolas
Newport Jewelry Co.
The mere convenience of the sedan is almost forgotten I
now in the greater practical purpose it is serving. I
Economical and easy to drive, it is speeding the war
work of men and women alike and keeping them fit in
all weathers.
It will pay you to visit us and examine this car. j
The gasoline consumption is uuusuallg low.
The tire mileage is unusuallg high.
Sedan or Coupe, $1350; Winter Touring Car or Roadster. $1050.
Touring Car, Roadster or Commercial Car, $885.
(All prices f. o. b. Detroit.)
' WHY THE NAME I
“COPPER-CLAD"
U
Study the section of the Copper-Clad Wall
as pictured above. No. 1 is the iron grey inner
lining or fire lining. No. 2 is the thick layer of
long fiber asbestos, the heat-holding material
that makes fuel do double duty. No. 3 is the
sheet of pure copper between the sweaty asbestos
and outer casing or range body. Notice the
domes or round bumps on the shev^ of copper.
. See how they hold the copper sheet away from
the range body, leaving a dry air space next to
the range body or outer casing, as shown by No.
four. ,
As all moisture in the asbestos must escape
toward the cold side, or away from the heat, you
can understand why the sheet of copper must be j 4
between the asbestos and cold side or outer cas
ing.
When the moisture strikes the copper, it can
get no farther, and as copper never rusts, it is
not affected by the moisture. The Dry Air
Space is almost exactly like the air space in a
thermos bottle. But for the air space in a ther
mos bottle it would not retain the heat. Just so '
with the Copper-Clad. The dry air space holds
heat better than solid iron even if an inch thick,
and is a great fuel saver. It is estimated that H
this air space saves a shovel of coal at every
meal, or over a thousand every year, t *
r
Range has four
walls and an air
space like —*
mos bottle.
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Then the name Copper-Clad means something tp you. It means
\ a Range Clad With Pure Copper Where Other Ranges Rust Out.
Hayden-Holloway Furniture Co.
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