Cincinnati’s First Women Candidates Were Too Radical For The Voters Of 1904 - Cincinnati Magazine

Cincinnati’s First Women Candidates Were Too Radical For The Voters Of 1904 - Cincinnati Magazine

Portrait of Florence CrambertFrom "Cincinnati Post," September 17, 1904 The early years of the Twentieth Century were almost welcoming for Socialist candidates in Cincinnati elections. Although Boss Cox’s Republican machine maintained an iron-fisted grip on electoral offices in Cincinnati, the growth of organized labor and the formation of progressive political parties offered a wide range of viewpoints in the years prior to World War I. Sociali…