Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 17, 1919, Page 8

Page 8 ’ |PEACING DE LUX ESTHER MOR WITH PRESIDENT | BNEN CREDIT. "w1-s0v sarap OR SUFFRAGE ss (By United Press) H. G. Nickeson of Lander Offers PARIS, Jan. 12.—Traveling de luxe with the President of the Unit ed ates on a first Correction to Claims of Origin Advanced by the Kem- St: time in histor; merer Republican | | story presents many novel features for all concerned. Cruising about from the United States to Brest, froi Brest to Paris, thence tu Chaumont,, back to Paris enroute to Calias | whence the channel trip to Dover,| |thence to London from Dondon to} Carlisle and Manchester, then retrac-! That certain representations made ing steps to Paris and thence to} by the Kemmerer Republican and re-| Rome, Genoa, Milan, Turin and back published in the Tribune concerning again to Paris, affords its unique pos- the origin of women suffrage in Wy- | sibilities. oming do not conform to historiea: facts and therefore are misleading, 3 Upon landing at Brest it was dis- the substance of a communicatior.' covered the French government had written by H. G. Nichenson, of Lan-'taken complete charge of transporta- der, who offers the following state-! tion facilities. The President’s party ment in correction: |was split into divers bits and many To Mrs. Esther Morris is due tht’ were compelled to take a second credit and honor of advocating and train. Among these were Ambassador originating woman’s suffrage in the/and Mrs. Cellere of Italy and their United States. At the first election party, who stood in the mud at the held at South Pass, (then in Carter station at Brest for some time before county, Wyoming) on the 2d day of they were told where they could get September 1869, Col. Wm. H. Bright, on the train. democrat, and myself republican, were candidates for the first territori- When the President arrived at Mu- al legislature. A few days befors! rat Palace in Paris, his home, he dis- election Mrs. Morris gave a tea party | covered the lodgekeeper (a man in at her residence at which there were} Jittle outer house who takes the about forty ladies and gentlemen name and pedigree of all prospective present. Col. Bright and myself be- callers) in red short pants. black ing invited, for the purpose, for while | satin jacket and slippers with buckles sitting at the table Mrs. Morris arose/on. As soon as there was time to give and stated the object of the meeting. and execute an order the man ap- She said: “There are present twe peared in civilian garb. opposing candidates for the first leg-| islature of our new territory, one of} On the trip back from Chaumont which is sure to be elected and we de-' the President entertained Jusserand sire here and now to receive from among others at an informal dinner them a public pledge that which ever on the train. Meeting in the recep- one is elected will introduce and work |tion room of the President’s car, a for the passage of an act conferring spirited exchange started as to who upon the women of our new territory should go into the diner first; the the right of suffrage.” | President, the ambassador, Mrs. Wil- Of course we both pledged our- son or Mrs. Jusserand. After much selves as requested, and received the bowing and “you firsts” the Presi- applause of all present. There were |dent finally said with a laugh: “Well no republicans elected at this first | I’m too hungry to argue about it, I’!] election, th2 Icgislature was solidly! go in first and settle it.” democrati Colonel Bright, true to his promise, introduced the bill and| The bathtubs in Buckingham pal- it became a law, passed in a jocular/ace are deeper than those of any manner as an ¢xperiment, as Co:.| other place in the world. One can Bright informed me on his return scarcely see over the top when sitting home. Mrs. Morris was an ardent re-|down in one of them. publican. For further reference to| her see Coutant’s History, pages 641 | While in Buckingham Palace Ad- and 663. jmiral Grayson thoughtlessly left his The experiment proved to be very/ light burning in his living room after unsatisfactory to the democratic par-|he retired into his bedroom. The ty in Wyoming, 1s they had fon servant assigned him, thinking Gray- hoped for the reason that they h son was still up, maintained his po given suffrage to the women of Wyo-/ sition at the outer door thruout the ming, that forever after they would night, and was still there in the morn receive the homage and support o1/ ing when the admiral started out for the women. Vain and delusive hope, a walk. for at the second session of the Ter-} ritorial legislature in 1871, of which I was a member, there was elected four repulican members in th> coun cil of nine, and three republican men. bers in the House of 1%, (see Bran- croft’s History, page 756.) So the) President went to the Carlisle ca- women’s vote elected a part of the|thedral, but this did not prevent ¢ legislature (which for them proved te! crowd ‘outside cheering lustily and be fortunate.) They also divided the! ending tho cheer booming thru the offices politically throughout the ter |long cold and dark passageways of ritory and state, with varying results|the historic edifice. to the present day. | The church the President attendee in Carlisle was so cold that the whol | conyregation kept overcoats on. ‘The President removed his when he spoke Services were in progress when the CITY NEWS’! DETROIT MORE PROSPEROUS Ao DRY CITY, CLAIM o————_ __—_____—_—__o Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Tinkler, | former Casper residents, are the par- | ents of a new baby girl, which wax | born at their home in Dowiagic, Mich. recently, according to announcements | which reached Casper this morning. | . « * | Harry H. Foss, a former Casper man, has returned from France, where ~ | he saw several weeks’ of actual fight- Mayor Couzens Reports Improve-| ing. He received two minor flesh ment in Home Conditions as | wounds in engagements prior to the Well as a Material Reduc- \signing of the armistice. “+ * tion in Crimes | Frank C. Norris, assistant city at- jtorney of San Diego, was a busines} EDITOR’S NOTE: There is much Visitor in Casper yesterday while en- ion of the question, “What will|route from a trip over the state to and its his home. He is interested in many ng in- | Wyoming oil companies. formation that might indicate a cor-| apts rect answer to tl question, the’ . United Press asked Mayor Couzens of ter Elizabeth, of North Casper, ana Detroit to answer the question, |* . C. Marlof left yesterday for “What did prohibition do to Detroit?” Michigan, called there by telegram ot! ng them of the serious illness ‘ notify Here is the Mayor’s answer: lof their father. By JAMES COUZENS \ Mayor of Detroit (Written for the United Press) Mrs. J. H: Carey and little daugh-! * Mrs. J. A. Ellett is numbered among the prominent Omaha ms trons visiting with friends and rela DETROIT, MICH, Feb. 15.—De-|tives in Casper today. troit was the first of the ‘‘million” class cities to go dry. The first of May, 1918, saw 1200 saloon licenses automatically canceled. While the war days and their abnormal ac- tivities have tended to obscure the direct concrete results of prohibition, D my duties as police commissioner ahid mayor have shown me no permanent damage to the city’s prosperity. On * the contrary, I have before me the! 4 , Oliver, a stockhelder of the data to prove that the city has bene- pijuth-Wyoming Oil company, is vis fited enormously. iting at the company headquarter. Petty crime in Detroithas been re- here and inspecting the holdings 01 duced by from 60 to 70 per cent. the company in the Salt Creek field. The House of Correction previously * * * was overflowing and in need of ex-| Mr, and Mrs. Henry Collins o. pansion. Now the commissioners find Lander are numbered among the busi their charges number daly one-third ness visitors in Casper today. of the former total. i * * * The visiting nurses of the board of 4 R Adams, H. M. Isham and F. health report the improvement in w.‘yandis, representatives of the home conditions as beyond their Wyoming Peerless Petroleum compa- greatest expectations. Child wel-' ,y were numbered among the oi) fare has received an impetus which) ¢2, who spent the week end in Cas millions of dollars in appropriations per. could not have effected. Detroit merchants report a greater business from the working classes than ever before, and the banks show a greatly increased number of depositors. There are those who be-, lieve that high wages in war plants have brot this about, but it is my personal opinion as a banker, manu- facturer and city official that pro- hibition should have equal credit with war wages. Collections also have been improved. The manufacturers were told that prohibition would bring a labor shortage, but this has been disproven. | Factory records show conqlusivay that the elimination of liquor has reduced tardiness, absdnee and acci- dents in the plants to say nothing of fiyenza on the coast and will return aera aoe Perna: to Casper as soon as she is able to F = | here by Mr. Nicholas yesterday. ber addicted to drugs. | ooge 3 There is bootlegging of liquor, but it has not been more prevalent than expected, and should be reduced to a minimum when Ohio aiid Toledo becomes dry. | No large hotels have gone out of! A. C. Fletcher, formerly connecteo with the Midwest Refining company, is a business visitor in Casper from iLusk for a few day: * T. A. McCullough, a well know. enver man, is numbered among tio oil men who are visiting in Casper today. + ¢ E. L. Freel, of Arminto, is num bered among the business visitors in Casper today. soe Frank McLaughlin, a Denver oil man and broker, is spending several days in Casper on business in con nection with his oil interests here. ocd ae William G. Krape, president of the Big Bear Oil Company, is expected to arrive in Casper tomorrow morn- ing for a several days’ visit with local stockholders of the company. ~ * ¢ Mrs. J. G. Nicholas, wife of the manager of the Henni hotel, is covering from a severe attack of in- Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Sutter, well known Glenrock residents, are in Casper on a short visit and business trip. ' * > AIVERTON OAV BRIBERY RUMOR [3 PURE “BUNK Alleged Principals Are Known, However, and Senate Investi- gation Will Sift Charge of Affecting County Division. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 15.— (Delayed)—The bribery investiga- tion in the senate has created by far the biggest stir in legislative—and political—circles ‘yet. It s the main topic around the Plains lobby last night, and is causing a few folks considerable nervous strain. While it would be unfair to print the facts, as pieced out from various sources, in advance of the finding of the special committee, it may be said without fear of transgressing the proprieties that thru a process of elimination—and frank admission— two of the alleged vrincipals are gen- erally known. As these names and others are likely to he brot out dur- ing the investigation—or later by in- terested parties if the investigation does not bring them ov%, it will prob- ably be best to withhold ther time in order haba gey have an equal start in the pu V One of these principals is a sena- tor from one of the southern coun- ties, who is supposed to have gone to a Lander man not a member of the legislature, and told him that a certain Riverton man had offered a bribe in connection with the Pilot county bill. This story was then re- lated to a state official, it is said, and later reached the ears of the River- ton delegation here in the interest of the Pilot county measure, as well as the ears of Frank Lucas, chair- man of the senate committee on county boundaries. The Riverton men, so the — story goes, went to the state official to whom it was said the charge had been repeated, demanding the name of the Riverton man said to have offered the bribe. The official insisted he had been told in confidence and could not divulge the name of the Riverton in- dividual mentioned to him as having offered the bribe Chairman Lucas, not desiring to have any member of his committee rest under such an imputation, very properly demanded the investigation. Riverton men here declare the whole thing a pure fabrication circu- lated with the intent to bring into disrepute the question of county di- vision and cause the legislature to drop it. They insist that if the in- vestigation does not bring out the facts and name the men, the do so thru the newspapers at At the second session women suf- frage was made a political issue. C. E. Castle, a democrat from Uinta county, having introduced a bill te repeal the woma suffrage act, a bitter contest was precipitated, but the democrats being in the majority the bill passed both houses, and was promptly vetoed by Governor J. 4 Campbell, the first territorial gov- ernor and a republican. The Democrats in the house at once passed the repeal measure over the governor's veto, having the required two thirds majority, but in the Coun- 4 cil they met their Waterloo, as four Republicans blocked their game, the Democrats not being able to muster the required two-thirds majority of nine, and thus the Republicans—the | suffrage in} Wyoming, saved it for the time being. | real authors of women For at the Constitutional conven- tion held in September, 1889, at Chey- enne (not South Pass as stated in the Kemmerer article), at which I was a delegate, an attempt was made by leading Democrats, Lewis J. Pal- mer and others, to disfranchise the women of Wyoming who had exercis- ed the right of suffrage for 18 years, (see journal of constitutional conven- tion of Wyoming, page 357 to 397) by attempting to prevent the incorpora- tion of the women’s right of franchise in the Constitution of our new state. But again they iled. and women suffrage in Wyoming, the state of its inception, thanks to the Republican irrevocably established, as it ly will be in the near future in every state in the Union, and prob- ably the whole world. The foregoing is not written for po- litical purposes, nor to criticise the Kemmerer and Casper papers, but to correct historical mis-statements. H. G. NICKESON. Miss Ruth Hall, formerly an em- ploye of the Henning, left Saturday for her home in Riverton in response to a telegram notifying her of the serious ill “Opportunity knocks on_ every man’s door once in a life time,” says Mr. Dooley, and it’s here again, knocking at your door, telling you to buy a lot in the new High Schoot Addition to Lusk. MIDWESTERN INVESTMENT CoO.. Owners, 221 OIL EXCHANGE BUILDING. HARRY FREE, Agents, 157 So. Center St, 2-1 et At Manchester a small boy evaded the police and secret service men, rar fut to the President’s carriage jumped in, kissed the President anc handed him a cigar. While the Pres- nt doesn’t smoke, he accepted the gift with a “thank you very much,’ whereupon, the word spreading rap idly down the street, he was flooded with ‘smokes’ sufficient for a smoker’s world tour. of sked Enroute to Italy the difficulti from England the President a sailor to wig-wag his thanks to the British cruisers alongside. He then greeted similarly the French cruisers, which assumed escort duty at mid- channel. 4 Enrouteto Italy the difficulties of the Italian language became appar- ent. One member of the presidential party asked for a bottle of water and got three blank The Italian king’s imperial train, in which the President rode to Italy, has very narrow aisles. The waiters aboard were footmen and other serv- ants from the royal palace—all un- usually large men. They couldn’t| pass in the aisles, and there being no switches within the train itself. there was much difficulty with the traffic. Mounting the imperial staircase of the king’s palace in Rome, one passes a guard of enormous men—one man on each step of a long flight—each man dressed in white kid trousers, black boots, wearing silver armored corslet and gold helmets. Standing motionless with axes in their hands, they looked like statues. They are giants, carefully selected from north- ern Italy. Susie, Mrs. Wilson’s negro maid, has the distinction of having been en- $ertained at the royal palaces of Eng- land and Italy and made the recipient of royal gifts. She has brooches |bearing the imporial coat of arms of both British and Italian royalty—and probably is the proudest American negress, Enroute to France from Italy, President Wilson’s physical energies were devoted to saluting crowds and opening and closing his windows as the train pulled in and out of smoke jfilled tunnels, He vibrated like a tuning fork between the platform for | greeting and his room for comfort. ‘ business. While they felt a reaction for a time, they are gradually recup- erating. The majority of the down- town cafes and saloons of good repu-, tation have continued in operation. Several of the largest retain their caberets although they are not on the lavish scale of former times. Real estate values have not been per- manehtly affected. The elimination of vice has been aided by prohibition. Detroit abol- ished her tenderloin before prohibi- tion came, but the dry edict guaran- teed that abolition. The theater busi ter than ever, The best indication of the class which prohibition has its greatest effect among is given by the state-| ment of the manager of a taxicab company. He says that his business was cut 60 per cent. Detroit can not trace the harm prohibition may have done, but it! can sense the good effects and the! greatest of these will not arrive until} the present generation of children has been permitted to develop in| homes unmolested by John Barley- corn. ess has been bet- oo DIVES FROM TALL TREE TO HORSE IN IRIS FILM Early morning riders in Central Park, New York, were startled when! they saw a man leap from a tree and! alight on a runaway horse’s back. A! crowd gathered, but the rider was off in a jiffy, with the mounted police after him. They caught up with tne bareback rider and wanted an expla- nation. None was needed. He tol. his name and that settled the matter. The rider was George Walsh, who was appearing in a scene for ‘Luck and Pluck,” his latest thrilling photo-| play, produced by William Fox, which! will come to the Wednesday. | —_»____- Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Swain, of Ther- | popolis, are spending a few days in| Casper on a combined business anu! pleasure trip. | recently for Cheyenne, where they! s | Jones: The kaiser’s methods have beggared all description. | Bones: Yes, and all Germany!—)} Cartoons Mazagine. jnumbered among the oil men who Tris theater next) j, S. R. Landis, of Sheridan, is‘among the business visitors in Casper for a few days. re ots E. P. Wilcox, of Riverton, is num- bered among the business visitors in Casper today. PS * * Miss Marjorie Campbell is spend- ing a few days in Casper visiting friends from Denver, where she is at~ tending school. * * * R. C. Cather, of Lander, is among| the business visitors in Casper to- day. ee) | | Tom Wright is included among the} many well known Riverton men who are visiting in Casper. ~ EOS | C. H. Pond, a resident of Powell, in the northern part of the state, is are visiting in Casper today. | s 8 * Mrs, Edwin Hall, formerly of Cap per, is spending a few days here visit- ing griends. Ra: “6 * George B. McClelland, a promi- nent resident of the northern part| of the state, is numbered among the business visitors in Casper today. fie ety Pd j Fred W. Hall, of Riverton, is num | bered among the business visitors! in Casper today. | es * ® R. M. Faddis and W. M. Spear are| numbered among the well know:: Sheridan’ men who are Casper busi- ness visitors. | | ** # _ C. O. Bockwell of Mt. Vernon, O., is spending a few days in Casper in the interests of an eastern oil syn-| dicate. * * S. M. Milton, of Billings, is num, bered among the business visitors in the oil world here today. .* * * J. E. Armstrong, of Thermopolis,| is numbered among the: Hot Springs} capital residents visiting in Caspe.. ‘8 # Miss Ruby Hagerty has accepted} a position on the Henning clerica,| force. 2 lee Mrs. D. J. Fisher and baby left) will visit with Mr. Fisher’s mothe:,| Mrs, Frank S. King. Mrs. Fishea | plans to make her home in Cheyenne until her husband returins from ser-! vice in France, | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1919 Woodrow Wilson: / “Patience.” ; Rumor further says—but say,"this| Svlonel House: “Diploma | isn’t the investigating committee. Lets Commissioner Garfield: “A Win. jgive ‘em a show by concluding this ter’s Tale’ | with the, familiar phrase Herbert C. Hoover: “Measure fo, | (To be Cgntinued.) Measure.” SS , | George Creel: “The Comedy of Fr. . Isenberg, of Denver, is rors” Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm: wer Night’s Dream,” The Sultan of Turkey: “Kisme: " Marshal Foch: “Justice.” —Cartoons Maga: ' : | rates_if necessary. 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