Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-01-16 | Page 8 | Nutmeg Governor Ifor Woman Suffrage

NUTMEG GOVERNOR fOR OR VOr AN SUffRAGE Conn n. Jan 16 Gover er Gover Governor nor not Simon Baldwin the tho now new executive of Connecticut rit is tho the first governor in an eastern castern state to Rive give ive official rec rca og-niton og to women's ri right ht to vote by br re recommending in his first message to tho the Jc legislature the tho adoption of an amendment t to the constitution enfranchising women in his state I believe women v eventually will obtain the vote I. I he eald said fI but abut Lut I do docot donot donot not cot believe e they th-ey ill v ever take aa as much interest i in using it aa as do men men II I JC You You see see it itis is this way exclaimed the governor with conditions as 86 they thoy are now in America a a 1 great majority of If women receive a better education than do the men The boy boy- of middle class parents has bas to bo bo be out hunting bunting for fora a position ll by the tho time timo he be is 14 or at atthe at tho the most mott 16 years of age The girls belonging to our families of comparatively comparatively humble means are able ablo to stay Itay in school until they are 16 at least Of course it seems a certainty that equal suffrage p will eventually 8 come but I 1 dont don't believe wo we shall over ever see seethe seethe seethe the day in which men muon and women omen are equally interested in polities politics II Why Vh do you rou think so he was aske asked f Women are arc fundamentally fundamentally- physically cally and and mentally different from men answered the governor o slowly Thc They are as is high an order of being hi higher higher her if you OU like like but but different Unquestionably the tendencies tendencies' of women are arc towards toward's the tho arts arts the the finer things timings Men cn are arc less imaginative e moro more solida Then too at the tho best the political game am is a rough one I dont don't think the ladies would Jik like like- it How would women tako take to politics poli polio tics tics' he was asked H Most conservatively was tho re re- re pl ply Conservatively 1 T said t the he interviewer inter inter- viewer viewer viewer- Why f Wh n not t 1 rejoined the thc governor quickly Women are oro b by nature much more conservative than men