Show p I i i STEPS ASIDE IN I FAVOR OF RIVAL I Mrs W Withdraws With i draws Candidacy for Sennate Sennate Sen- Sen nate Nomination Mrs C. C at present present pres pres- ent cat member of the legislature from th this count county and until yesterday a candidate for nomination for foe state senator on the tho Republican ticket withdrew last night from the tho race to give greater strength to the only other woman seeking Decking senatorial senatorial sena- sena honors Mrs Annie Yells Wells elis Cannen Cannon 1 am for women first Last and all tho time time Mrs Wolstenholme said last night in explanation o of her withdrawal and I am ana stepping down for the reason that 1 think wo will bo ho more cert certain in of ot securing securing- one nomination for fer r c-r tho the senate senate sen sen- ate for tor a woman candidate If there Is 15 but one In the field fJeld I feel that the tho Republican party ty should endeavor to put two women In the senate and two in the thc lower house So far tar as I know there thero arc are no women candidates on the Republican ticket for the nomination for representative and thero there are iu-e two women omen against eleven men seeking I nomination for senator With Ith the vote vole In favor of women candidates divided between two of us the chances to t tse se secure so- so cure curo the thc nomination of oC a woman are considerably lessened so I am nm withdrawing with with- drawing for the purpose of oC throwing what strength I am able to command to Mrs Cannon An Active ACUT SoUrn Suffragist t. t i Mrs frs who vho was v elected I I to the tho lower house In 1914 on the thc Progressive Progressive Pro Pro- o ticket returned to the Republican Republican lican party when Colonel Roosevelt Roose aligned himself with the Hughes forces Sh She bhe has le been 1 a leodor iz In 11 limo tho suffrage c cause for years She was present at atthe tho the convention in New York at which women singled single ut out Senator Sutherland Sutherland Smith Smith- erland of Utah to espouse their cause by presenting to Congress the SU Susan n B. B Anthony Anthon amendment t to W th the federal constitution constitution constitution con con- for national n enfranchisement of women Senator Sutherland was balked by tho the administration In his at attempts attempts attempts at- at tempts to secure action on the measure but he ho was successful in prevailing upon Charles E E. E Hughes Hushes to advocate equal suffrage It Ills is because Utah Is regarded In the east as such a stronghold of ot equal suffrage suf suf- frage Crago said Mrs Irs that I feel tho the Republican party p In this state should place two women in each h ranch branch of tho the state legislature this fall tall Utah has upheld the rl rights of women In the tho past and this year car in particular should come out Cut stron strong for women Mrs is state president of or the tho National Council o of Women |