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`` SENATOR 'S DAUGHTER RUNS FOR MAYOR . '' `` MEN TO BE LAID ON THE POLITICAL SHELF . '' `` SENATOR VAN DEUSEN WILL TURN IN HIS GRAVE IF DAUGHTER ACCEPTS NOMINATION . '' were some of the head-lines which Roma editors had produced by late use of midnight oil , and the articles that followed them were incredulous , mildly tolerant , openly snobbish or given over to ridicule , according to the policy of their several papers . One of them read : `` It is both a disgrace and a menace to this fair city that city politics have sunk to such a level that our best men will have nothing to do with them , and that no one with the ideals of good government , other than a handful of women , will undertake the improvement of our municipal government . With all deference to the ladies , -- and who knows their many charming qualities better than we ? -- it is inevitable that , ` trained to keep silence in the churches ' -- -LRB- and the City Hall as well -RRB- -- our women are without the large-minded grasp of affairs , -- the broad and liberal judgment , necessary to cope with these affairs .