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Show HnoTiiisK Dickev Has Somethino to Say on Women Sukfkacie' "I sees by do papers dat do won-cn folks is got up another sufTerln' convention," conven-tion," said Brother Dickey. "You mean 'suffrage.' " "Mcubo I does, suh; but dey's so long suffcrln' dat I spec' I ain't fur off do track In nsin' do word what I fust lit In wld. Kf I makes no mistakes, mis-takes, dey wants tor git holt er do' reins er gover'mlnt en take do country in dey own linn's, en I makes no doubt but what do country would be all do better fer It, though many a po'strug-glln' po'strug-glln' citizen what makes a hones' llv-in' llv-in' votln' around' on 'lecshun day would be out er a Job fer good en all, en you never could tell who wuz run-nln' run-nln' for office en what llatform do win? standln' on, sencc doy'd ever' one be talkln' at one en do same time. Hut what's de sense in dey wantln' any mo' power dan what dey got now, w'en nine mens out er ten in dls country votes des how de womens tells 'cm ter or feels lak dls worl' Is no fr'en' ter grace ten minutes atter dey gits home? Hut le' 'cm go ahead. Dey knows des what dey drlvln' at, en dey ain't amanonde topsld er creation what got do courage ter tell 'cm dat dey don't!" Altanta Constitution. |