Celebrities at A.Y.P. who favor woman suffrage

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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WASHINGTON  EQUAL SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION
VOL 1.
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.   OCTOBER
NO. I
Celebrities at A.Y.P. who Favor Woman Suffrage
LEADING THE GRAND MARCH OF PROGRESS
" I congratulate the women of Colorado upon having the right to vote.
I believe that women should have a voice in the government."—
William Howard Taft
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suffrage is finally complete it will be led by no less honorable name than that of William Howard Taft, president of the United States; it will contain the names of the late Governor John A. Johnson, of Minnesota; Senator William" E. Borah, of Idaho; Senator George E. Chamberlain, of Ore¬ gon; John Barrett, president of Bureau of South American Republics; Congressman William Sulzer, of New York; Governor William Spry, of Utah; Gov¬ ernor John A. Brady, of Idaho; Judge Ben B. Lind- sey, of Colorado; Judge C; E. S. Wood, of Portland; W. S. U'Ren, of Oregon City; Mrs. HehYy Villard, of New York; Professor Charles Zueblin, of Boston; El¬ bert Hubbard; Professor Frances Squire Potter, of the University of Minnesota; Ralph W. Pope, of New York; Professor James De Loss Towar, of the Uni¬ versity of Wyoming; Bishop F. S. Spalding, of the Episcopal Diocese of Salt Lake; J. Ellen Foster and Janet E. Richards, of Washington, D. C; Abigail Scott Duniway, of Portland; Laura Clay, of Lexington, Ky.; Chrystal MacMillan, of Edinburgh; , Gina Krog, of Christiana, Norway; Annie Besant, of London; Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, Florence Kelly, Caroline Lexow and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, of New York. Few Opposed to Woman Suffrage. Of the many Exposition celebrities interviewed on the subject of equal suffrage, surprisingly few ex¬ pressed any opposition. One or two said that the matter had been given no consideration and desired not to be quoted, but the great majority, so far as they were reached, were much interested in the fact that' a suffrage amendment is to be voted on in this state in November, 1910, and expressed a hope that it would carry.
President Taft, while on his way to Seattle to make an address at the Exposition, in a speech made at Flagler, Colorado, congratulated the women of that state upon having the right to vote. He said he believed that women should have a voice in the government and suggested to the men that if they voted as the women did, they would vote right.
Two of the suffrage states—Idaho and Utah— erected buildings at the Pair. The Utah visitors were apparently unanimous in their hearty support of woman suffrage. Both men and women said that the women in Utah voted just as generally as the men, and all agreed that it was a benefit. There was a fine spirit of independence and democracy about the Utah delegation. Governor Spry, approach¬ ed on the subject of suffrage, invited all Washington women to move to Utah if the amendment failed here. He said: "We have no apology to make for woman suffrage. Our women vote as generally as the men, and the effect is beneficial. Better men, on the whole, are chosen for office.
Utah, a Suffrage State, Has Largest Number of Home Owners.
"Whenever a woman accepts a political position she discharges its duties faithfully and honestly. School offices are most often filled by women, as they are deeply interested in education, but we have women in some important county clerkships. They are excellent officials in this position. Utah women, own much property and have large business inter¬ ests. In Utah, we believe that to own property, makes a man or a women more independent—more nearly the arbiter of Ms or her own destiny, and we boast a larger number of home-owners in pro¬ portion to the census, than any other state in the
Union. Washington can make no mistake in giv¬ ing women the ballot. It will stimulate enter¬ prise."
Senator William E. Borah and Senator George E. Chamberlain visited the Exposition while touring the west on the Senate Investigating Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands. Both have defended women's political rights from the stump in their own states. Senator Chamberlain believes the amendment now pending in his state— Oregon—should carry and that Washington, South Dakota and Oklahoma, which vote at the same time, should enfranchise women. "I hope every state in the Union will give women the. ballot," is his state¬ ment.
Idaho gave women the suffrage in 1896.    Senator- Borah, speaking of Idaho's experience said:
"We have had woman suffrage in Idaho for a number of years. I would be entirely unwilling to see it abolished,, for I believe in it as a matter of right. I do not claim—and no calm observer will claim—^that woman suffrage does all, or will do all, claimed by its enthusiastic advocates. It wiU not purify politics, but it helps. I believe it has been distinctly beneficial, and the influence exerted -by woman suffrage,! while not as great as is sometimes claimed, is, in so far as it goes, entirely on the side of cleaner politics and better government."
No Political Scandals in Idaho.
Governor John A. Brady, of Idaho, who made the principal address at the Fair on Idaho Day, gives this  testimony:
"I do not think that exercise of elective franchise by the women of Idaho has had any effect upon the social or home life of the people of the State, except it be by reason of better citizenship on account of