The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-04-12
AWFUL VIRTUE.

From the NJ Y. World
For time the women of Wyoming kept
mum at their dose of jury, but the bitterness
of this has worn off, and now, like the child
who forgets the taste of the medicine, they
are hot foot after the sweets-the sweets of
ofice-again. This time it is higher game
than a mere Wyoming justioeship, which
there is reason to suppose even that estimable
person in a black dotted gown and red ribbon
in her back hair who once grasped it eagerly
now despises, and, not to let the reader burst
in ignorance, nothing will now do bat the
entire reduction of the Territory under
womans control. With an intuitive insight
into politics characteristic of their bright
perceptions, the sisters early foresaw in this
matter that the first step towards getting the
outs in was to get the ins out, and accordingly
o cunning plot, not unattended at this writing
with success, has been devised against the
Federal functionaries of that blessed land.
One has already fallen, and the manner of his
fall was THISTLE was the Secretary of State of
Wyoming, and for q time behaved well, but,
what with female suffrage and She judges and
bi-sexual juries, fell into drink. The changes
brought about in the Territory were too
many for him. AS his official pen put them
upon the record his brain reeled, and finally,
by dint of the great labors brought upon
him by female prolixity in the matter of pleas,
surged in upon him like the waves of the
sea in multitude and the teachings of the
moral law in length, exhausted nature craved
such frequent stimulant that the occasional
use of ''suthin which had marked his
earlier days now in these times of trial har-
dened into hourly habit. Drink brought
with it, as is charged, immortality, and on
these scores the office-seeking females of
Wyoming preferred petition for his removal
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any special support for the immortality charge
aud indeed this was little weak, none of
the sisters caring to say precisely how she
knew of the hcentiousness of the doomed
Secretary-but mans eyes, his nose, his
breath, his walk, and conversation effuse rum,
and the charge here was sustained with q
particularly that left Mr.. Grant, who cannot
bear the sight of liquor, no option but forth
with to behead this vinous one. Being be-
headed, it was the fond imagination of the
sisters that some one of their number would
be nominated in his place, but so far the
tyranny of man has prevailed to retain va
cancy.
Nothing daunted, our voteresses have be-
gun the subversion of the Marshal, and, on
the pleas of rum and ruin which ousted the
Secretary, it is evident the Marshal, too,
must fall. With this will be second chance
for Office, and if this fail no doubt third
effort will be made, and SO on until success
attend. .
Now, such being the procedure of the
women voters of Wyoming, it rises into q
question whether, if female suffrage become
general, we will not have a new amendment
to the Constitution, to the effect that drink
and debauchery shall disfranchise. Fancy a
Congress of many women, with power to en-
force by appropriate legislation the provi-
sions of that article! Picture q bureau of
compulsory breath-smelling, and a huge in.
crease in the number of Government detec-
tives to follow male ofice-holders of dark
nights The old song says
"a man may drink, and not be drunk;
A man may fight, and not be slain
A man may kiss pretty girl,
And yet be welcome back again."
With the full establishment of the Wyom.
ing rule, there will be no application in this
district. There will be no more cakes and
ale, Solomons Song will be under ban, and
Luthers doctrine but heresy, that
''He who loves not women, wine, and song
Is but fool his whole life long"