 The next year, on November 17, 1898, he married Madeline "Madge" McDowell.They worked together on the newspaper and by the early 1900s he would lobby legislators with his wife to win universal suffrage and support her work in using the newspaper to call for reform.Editorials and articles covered juvenile justice, education, tuberculosis commissions, crime and the penal system, environmental issues, gun control, and anti-lynching laws.