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Show WOMAN INAUGURATES CAMPAIGN FOR ELECTION Special Cable to Tho Tribune. PARIS, A in-ll 10. Two thousand people, mostly men. cheered Mine. Marguerite Durand when in opening her campaign for election to tin- chamber of deputies from the Ninth urnndlsscinciil Flic said: "There Is no good reason why a womn.ii shall not bo president of France." Mine. Durand is providing S'JOOO from her own pocket for the expenses of her campaign. cam-paign. She knows that even if unanimously unani-mously elected the law would debar her from a seat In the chamber, but her campaign cam-paign Is educational. Among tho reforms sue promises as a result of eiiual rights for women are belter dlvorco laws, female. fe-male. prlKcUi inspectors lo look after women prisoners, measures to suppress Immorality, tho prohibition of tho sale of absinthe, and suppression of all forms of gambling. |