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Show 1 STATE MONEY FIGHT fl How a Woman Vas Defeated For Nomination For State Treasurer' M By the Banking Interests That Have a Grip on the State Funds fl An Interesting- Story For Women to Read. H Th Standard 1ms been requested H several times to toll the story of how H t .Mrs. Margaret Zane Witcher was dc- H feated for state treasurer in the Re- H publican state convention, and some H timo ago this paper asked a Salt Lake H friend to send the information His H letter just arrived this morning. Af- H ter telling that Mrs. Witcher has been M county clerk of Salt Lake county for H several years and how competent she H would haie been in filling any office H in the state, he says: H "She became a candidate for state Hj treasurer. It was for a long time B practically conceded that she would H have little, if any, opposition, in fact, H ' I dbubt whether any was anticipated ' H until the representatives of certain, H banks approached her with a proposl-' H tion that she pledge herself to the 1 deposit of the public funds, now B amounting to about two million dol- H lars, in certain banks which they H should name, and upon such condi- H tions as they should mention. Mis. H Witcher Indignantly stated that she M would enter into no contract or com- H bine with any bank or banking instl- Hl tution, and that, if elected as stale Hl treasurer, sho would deposit the funds HJ as in her Judgment seemed best, and H upon such conditions as would be H most secure and beneficial to the H state of Utah. Then it was that the H opposition began Had she consented H to their request they would have guar- H anteed her nomination and her elec- H tion. In spite of this, she came with- H in a few votes of being nominated in H the convention. She was defeated b M the open and active support of the H hanking Interests and especially the 1 candidate who is now running on the m Republican ticket for state troasurer, H Jesse D. Jewkcs, even his own son. H with others, actively went through tha convention and said to the delegates: j 'Send the women to the kitchen. The H' proper place for a woman Is in the ' kitchen.' This statement was made B, hy Jewkes' son himself, together with other statements reflecting upon the J ability of Mrs. Witcher to hold this HH office. BAw "After Mr. Jewkes got the nomina- Sj1 tion he went to Mrs. Witcher, extend - SJ ed his sympathy and condoled with BJi her In her defeat. She Indignantly SJ-. spmed his apologies and told him in the presence of others that she uu- jf derstood how sho was defeated, and Jl called his particular attention to the BJ( statements which his own son had L- made concerning the pioper place for BjV a woman, and the only place for which BJi she was fit, Mr Jowkes stated that SJ'i if she felt thla way he would with- BJ draw from the ticket and allow her BJ name to be placed on the ticket In BJ his place. She said to him, 'You BJ know that I am not that kind of a BJ person. You know full well that I BJ would not humiliate myself to accent Mj a nftminatlon under such clrcum- BBJj stances.' He then offered as a first BJ conciliation to send his son to hei BBJ ad have him apologbe to her for his BJ rud.e conduct and language on the BJ floor of the convention to delegates. BJ "Again Bhe answered. 'I do not care to meet your son There is one person to whom ho owes an apology and that is his mother. Tell him to go to her and apologize to her for the language he has used concerning Nomen in this convention todny "These nie absolute facts and how any women can vote the Republican . ticket knowing these facts passes mv comprehension " |