n by saying: "Gentlemen, this is a very peculiar position for a
Colorado woman. It seems just as strange to me as it would be to my
husband to be coming here before a body of women and saying: 'We men
ask from you equal rights under the Constitution of the United
States.'" After showing the interest felt in elections by women she
said: "I have been an office-holder, which has involved running for
office, and I think it is right for me to tell you a little of my
experiences. My campaigns have taken me through almost every county in
Colorado, the farming counties, the roughest mining communities, and
let me say to you that if there could be any more chivalry in the
States where you think it would be unchivalrous to let your women
vote, I would like to see it. I have met with the greatest courtesy
from men all over the State. I have been treated just as kindly, just
as politely by the men when I appeared as a political candidate as by
the men with whom I am associated in my school work, in my home and
society life. We have come to the time when we must feel that the word
chivalry belongs to the past. It is connected with a period when
woman's position before the law and in her home was far from a
desirable one; and so I believe you will not misunderstand me when I
say that if you will give us justice we feel that it will mean a great
deal more than chivalry ever did."

There had just been an exposition of fraud at the recent Congressional
election where Representative John F. Shafroth had been re-elected and
he at once resigned the office in order to disclaim all connection
with it. Nearly every speaker was interrogated about it by members of
the committee. Mrs. Grenfell answered, as did all of them: "The frauds
upon which this election was decided were committed in the city of
Denver alone and in the worst precincts in the city. We will admit
that they were committed. Is that a reason for considering that woman
suffrage is a mistake? I have heard reports from the cities of
Philadelphia and New York by which, if I should judge male suffrage,
I should say it was an utter failure in the States of Pennsylvania and
New York. We have tens of thousands of women voters in Colorado. We
have indictments out against many dishonest voters and with the utmost
searching they have found one woman who is charged with 'repeating' in
the election. Our State penitentiary has five women prisoners today
and 600 men. That surely cannot be used