Bough on Bachelors.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 97, 21 October 1897, Page 4

Bough on Bachelors.

In a despatch from Boston, dated August 14th, the San Francisco Ex- I aminer says:— Mrs Charlotte Smith, enemy of the bloomer girl, and original C female Klondyke boomer, has entered the local political field, and announces I that in the coming mayoralty campaign j - she will oppose the election of any man I to office who is not married. Charlotte means business, and in now preparing Proclamation No. I, with the aid of a borrowed typewriter, her own being tied up somewhere in New York. To-night she made this statement : — " I'm against the election of any bachelors to public office. The greatest political failures of history were Bachelors. Why, in my time there's been dozens of great political failures, and nearly every one of them was unmarried. First, there was President Buchanan. If be had bad a wife to stiffen him up a little bit the civil war would never have occurred. There's the Irish movement, ia which I am much interested. See what that has come to, all because Parnell was unmarried when he met Mrs O'Sbea. " The last two Mayors we have bad — New Curtis, who wants to be Mayor again, and Josiah Quincy, who also wants another term— have been failures. Now, if Josiab had a nice little wife to warm him up a bit, he'd have made a better Mayor. Ned needs woman's refining and strengthening aid. " I'm going to oppose the election of these bachelors to office. Politicians must marry, all men should marry, anyhow. That's the solution of the social problem. We've got to begin somewhere, and I propose starting in on politicians."