This is an excerpt of a speech given by a Tennessean in 1916.
Which Tennessean gave this speech?
Right about face, [the southern woman] turned, and she said to the southern man, "I do not wish to usurp your place in government, but it is time I had my own. I don't complain of the way you have conducted your part of the business of government, but my part has been either badly managed, or not managed at all. In the past you have not shown yourself adverse to accepting my help in serious matters; my courage and fortitude and wisdom you have continually praised. Now that there is a closer connection between the government and the home than ever before in the history of the world, will you not let me help you?" And he in turn has said various things. Sometimes: “Oh, you want to help me? Not to get in the way? Well, on the whole I see no objection to that." Sometimes when surpassingly truthful, he has said: "But you know, you will try to reform us, and we don't want to be reformed. Why you'd take all the fun out of politics. What would we do if we couldn't drink and fight at a convention?" To which she might reply, that there are plenty of other places, possibly more appropriate, for these delectable forms of entertainment.
a. Anne Dallas Dudley
b. Madam C.J. Walker
c. Robert M. LaFollette
d. Alvin C. York