| 254MRS, PEATTIE'S CANDIDACY
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Progress of Her Campaign for
Member of the Board of
Education.
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Letters From Wohueu in-lorsing Her-
What the Committee is Doing
to Elect Her.
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Qualification for Voting---Something About
the Cand'de---Indorsed by Two
Conventions and One League.
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The current issue of the Women's Weekly, the official organ of the Women's club of this city, prints several letters from club members in support of Mrs. Peattle's candidacy, among which were the following :
This year the women of Omaha have an opportunity to be represented upon the school board by one of their own number, whose abillity and public spirit neither republican, populist nor democratic, so the question of poltical affilations need not enter for a moment into consideration. Our schools are the great national nurseries of the republic, and fitness for the postion of school director is the only question that should concern us. With all due respect to the present board whose members perhaps devote a short time every week to the general neccessities of the schools, put off untile the last moment for action, it certainly seems as if a woman would know better how to arrange details, which are, after all, the most far reaching in their consequences.
If the mangement of the schools had been in the hands of the women, is it to be supposed that at this present stage of civilization, with all the talk about germs, bacill, ect., ad intiutm. that the women would have allowed childern of all sorts of conditions of men. in all stages of cleaniness ( I really want to rush into medical terms here, I know so much about it that it is a pitty I do not know a little more). with eczema and what not--to drink from a common cup. It is inconcelivable that this matter should have been neglacted so long. A women would see that her childern were surronded by the best possible conditions of health and morals. Men have apparently more important business in life than looking after childern, but a true mother will hold that to be her most important work, to which all other alma must sub-serve.
I once knew a lady who devoted her-self entirely to her childern. She said servants could not the work of the house, but her childern were too precious to he left to the care of hirelings. Teachers, who take the mother's place a few hours every day, should be selected with the greatest care. Only women can judge women in many ways. There seems to be a mental obliquity of vision in a man's judgment of a woman's fitness for many positions.
I hope the time will come when women physicans will have the general oversight of the health of school chidlern. that those who are coming down with contagious disease shall be detched at once before other childern are infected . A medical supervison should be exersied over all the schools, and very great attention should be paid to sanitary regulations. The city employs a man to run around and look after the cows, but childern are herded with very little attention to the places from which they come, brining with them germs of disease and death.
Perhaps a women on the school board will inaugrate new conditions at any rate, the honored member of the Woman's club who is a candiate for that postons will not be nonentilly.
Let the women of Omaha see to it that she is elected.
AUGUSTA B. HENDERSON.
Primarily, because women should have a direct voice in school matters.
The larger part of the teachers are women. but the authority under which they work is vested in men, now entirely. One woman will be but one of the school governing power, and that is little enough. Observation of the world's affair goes to show that what men and woman do toghter is better done than what either do alone. Men need women's capacity for minute and poinstaking detail--for keeping corners clean and beautfying the affair of life ; women need men's capcity for broad dealigt the carrying out of plans in the mass.
Secondarilly, because Mrs. Peattle, having had a large experience in public life, is by that fitted for such a position. Her philanthropic work in the city and her writings prove her a humantaian and a follower of the two great commndments on which hang all the law and the prophets.
Ther need be no thirdly of the school board, because I believe women should have a direct voice and vote in that matter which is beyond everything else their work, the education of their childern. Vote for Mrs. Peatitte because her nomination gives just the first opportunity to sustain and carry into effect that belief, and because she is a women calculated to occupy the postion with credit.
HARRIET S. MACMURPHY.
In the nineteenth century it seems quite superflous to suggest that women who are candidates for office do not need to subscribe to articles of faith. It is highly desirable that they be good, moral citizens, but it is hardly fair to require more, since no similar requistion is placed upon men hoping for election. We allow and beleive that the more conscientious and faithful the indivdual, the better will all be performed. This is written for those who question the propriety of any woman being on the school board until her church affilation has been is vestigated. We are happy to note that Mrs. Peatile is indorsed by the municipal league. We are glad that she is to speak before the Congerstional club next week. In the past we have noted from time to time that when the various church and parlor gatherings have wanted a drawing card, they have gladly avalled them selves of the talent of Mrs. Peatlie. Will they show their aprecation of hey now? we feel sure that the galuntry of the members of the board of education is such that they will welcome a lady to their number. Vote for Mrs. Peatile H. S. TOWNE.
The Weekly itself says editorially " Mrs. Peattle's election is conceded.
The question now is, who is opposed to her? She will be elected by a large majority. The opposition all agree on that point. The women have railled in a manner which does credit to the sex.
and after election among those who congratulate the ' women on the school board ' will be hundered of women who will say, ' I cast my first ballot for you. '
" While her friends are rejoiced to know this is true, they will be none the less industious for the remaing few days. In fact, taking courage from good reports, they will work harder than they would otherswise be able to do.
" They will vote for her, because she is fitted for the postion, because she cannot be overwed, because she has the courage of her convictions, because, more than all else, we need a women on the school board!"
" They will vote for her, because she is fitted for the position, because she cannot be overawed, because she has the courage of her convictions, because, more than all else, we need a women on the school board?"
During the last fortnight the most ridicluous stories, the most slanderous insinautions have been scattered broad-cast in order to turn the vole of the women, from their candidate. To these, the committe having her camnagin to charge have [dr?] [dr?]
upon the immpressionable feminine nature with stories too base to desrve refutation.
The committe has made thorough canvass of the entire city and is assired of a very large woman's vote for its candidate. Itegistration is not necessary and any women having childern of school age or owning property assessed in her own name is entitled to vote for school director. There is no salary attached to the office, as has been asserted by some re[ublicans ; neither is there very much glory. A conscisntous member of the present board says that his duties take up at least one-third of his time. While a man might use lis-election to the school board as a slepping alone to other political preferment, a woman's candidacy for the place can mean nothing but a whillingess to serve the public disinteratedly.
Mrs. Peatile has nothing to explain, excuse or extenuate. lier career since she came to the city six years ago has been public enough to allow everyone to judge for himself. Her writtings in the interset of charitable and other in-sitautaion have always been of an up-lifting kind, and no worthy person or establishment ever appealed in cain.
either to her purse or her pen. Her work in the World-herald and other papers speaks for iteself, and there is no world of it which she would willingly retract. If the voters of the city, malc as well as female, care to have upon the board a thoroughly non-partisan, independent and fearless member they could not better than to vote for Mrs. Peattle. She has recived the nomination from both the democrate and popullist converntions and has been indorsed by the Municipal league and several organiztions of women.
The arraignement is that the ladies will vote between the hours of 9 a.m and noon and between 8 and 5 p. m. At those times there will not be so many men present and voting can be accomplished with less delay.
To the Editor of the World-Hearld---When the forefa there of our county declared that " all men were created free and equal" and when afterwards they abonted unvirsal (male) suffrage they were very considerably in advance of their age. Since then we have had a feeling that we accomplished almost everything that was worth contending for, and so we have rested on our honors, but while we have been resting the other branches of our Anglo-Vasen race have been jogging along in their usual slow but steady way and today by comparsion with England, Australia or New Zealand we find ourselves behind three countries as regard the political postion of women. It is true that we have agltaed the question of " Female Suffrage" a good deal, but the women have always asked much that no one seemed willing to confer on them, and so very little has been attained. I do not forget Wyoming. but that is in itself but a small beginning for our great country. In England while they have steadly refused the ballot to women in national affairs, yet for years they have allowed women to vote in all local matters connected with property and education, and for nearly a generation women have been valuable members of the school boards. In that matter they have been decidely ahead of us, because it is today the rule over the United Kingdom, whreas in our country it has been impossible for a woman to be on the school borad or to vote where her own property was involved except in a very few of the eastern states. If women are ever to vote in national elections they should be admitted to the privillege in the grdual way and I have no doubt but the local experience and responisbilty would fit them for higher things. For these reason I am thoroughly glad that Mrs. E. W. Peattle has been nominated for the board of education and I sincerly hope she may have the hearty support for her fellow citizens. It is an invoation in our western world and for that very reason I wish it success. I need not mention Mrs. Peattile's fintess for the postion. for that is well known to all of your readers. She is by no means the only women in our midest who would honor the postion, but she is one of them and in every way worthy.
THOMAS KILPATRICK.
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The Municipal League.
The one object of the League is " The Best impossible City Goverment for Omaha." and to serure this it knows no party of sect, and times to unite those in sympathy with its object. in the support of capable and honest men for the city offices.
To carry on this purpose the League has indorsed the following candidaties. after curreful investiagation of their fitness, for the
CITY COUNCIL
First Ward---S I. Gordon. republican.
Third Ward--- J. II. Getty. Rep (by pettion).
Dr. James H. Peabody, dem
Fourth Ward--- and pop.
F. B. Kenneal, rep.
Fifth Ward--- Alen T. Hector, rep (by pettion).
Sixth Ward--- G. P. Dwing, rep(by pettion)
Seventh Ward---G. N. Hilas, dom.
Eighth Ward--- J. H. Schmidt, dem.
SCHOOL BOARD.
H. E. R. Kenndy, Hev. T. J. Mackay.
C. B. Wilson. J. G. Gilmore
Rev. T. R. Crambeltt. Jonathan Edwards.
Alea Eha W. Peattile.
G. W. DOANE Presideny
CHECORY J. POWELL, Secartary.
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| 254MRS, PEATTIE'S CANDIDACY
-----------------
Progress of Her Campaign for
Member of the Board of
Education.
------------
Letters From Wohueu in-lorsing Her-
What the Committee is Doing
to Elect Her.
------------------
Qualification for Voting---Something About
the Cand'de---Indorsed by Two
Conventions and One League.
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The current issue of the Women's Weekly, the official organ of the Women's club of this city, prints several letters from club members in support of Mrs. Peattle's candidacy, among which were the following :
This year the women of Omaha have an opportunity to be represented upon the school board by one of their own number, whose abillity and public spirit neither republican, populist nor democratic, so the question of poltical affilations need not enter for a moment into consideration. Our schools are the great national nurseries of the republic, and fitness for the postion of school director is the only question that should concern us. With all due respect to the present board whose members perhaps devote a short time every week to the general neccessities of the schools, put off untile the last moment for action, it certainly seems as if a woman would know better how to arrange details, which are, after all, the most far reaching in their consequences.
If the mangement of the schools had been in the hands of the women, is it to be supposed that at this present stage of civilization, with all the talk about germs, bacill, ect., ad intiutm. that the women would have allowed childern of all sorts of conditions of men. in all stages of cleaniness ( I really want to rush into medical terms here, I know so much about it that it is a pitty I do not know a little more). with eczema and what not--to drink from a common cup. It is inconcelivable that this matter should have been neglacted so long. A women would see that her childern were surronded by the best possible conditions of health and morals. Men have apparently more important business in life than looking after childern, but a true mother will hold that to be her most important work, to which all other alma must sub-serve.
I once knew a lady who devoted her-self entirely to her childern. She said servants could not the work of the house, but her childern were too precious to he left to the care of hirelings. Teachers, who take the mother's place a few hours every day, should be selected with the greatest care. Only women can judge women in many ways. There seems to be a mental obliquity of vision in a man's judgment of a woman's fitness for many positions.
I hope the time will come when women physicans will have the general oversight of the health of school chidlern. that those who are coming down with contagious disease shall be detched at once before other childern are infected . A medical supervison should be exersied over all the schools, and very great attention should be paid to sanitary regulations. The city employs a man to run around and look after the cows, but childern are herded with very little attention to the places from which they come, brining with them germs of disease and death.
Perhaps a women on the school board will inaugrate new conditions at any rate, the honored member of the Woman's club who is a candiate for that postons will not be nonentilly.
Let the women of Omaha see to it that she is elected.
AUGUSTA B. HENDERSON.
Primarily, because women should have a direct voice in school matters.
The larger part of the teachers are women. but the authority under which they work is vested in men, now entirely. One woman will be but one of the school governing power, and that is little enough. Observation of the world's affair goes to show that what men and woman do toghter is better done than what either do alone. Men need women's capacity for minute and poinstaking detail--for keeping corners clean and beautfying the affair of life ; women need men's capcity for broad dealigt the carrying out of plans in the mass.
Secondarilly, because Mrs. Peattle, having had a large experience in public life, is by that fitted for such a position. Her philanthropic work in the city and her writings prove her a humantaian and a follower of the two great commndments on which hang all the law and the prophets. |
