Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-02-03
WISE LEGISLATION IN WYOMING.
GFrom the Laramie Sentinel r..

| From the Laramie Sentinel
We listened night before last to an ar.
gument in the Council upon the action to
| pass the act over the Governors. veto, re.
pcaling the act enfranchising women in
this Territory. As our readers generally
did not enjoy this rare intellectual treat
we propose to give them little outline Of
what was said. .... 4.
Mr.. Nuckolls introduced the motion and
made speech in its favor. Mr.. Nuckolls
is no speaker, and when in his normal con
dition he has sense enough to be consciou:
Of the fact and hold his tongue, but on thi.
particular occasion he was conscious that
something had to be did," and fortified
himself accordingly.
The leaders of the scheme knew they
lacked one vote in the Council. They had
moved heaven and earth to secure that one
vote. They had approached one Of our
members, who, in state Of vaggishness
had encouraged their advances, and made
him more and greater promises than the
Devil did the Saviour.
They had agreed to make him President
of the Council at first, and give him every.
thing from the next delcgateship to Con.
gress up to a thousand dollars in cash
afterwards, if he would ouly fall down and
worship them by helping to disfrau cllise
the women. All the facts in the case and
the names of the interested parties to these
efforts will be given to the public at no
distant day, and they will find it interest
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else to chronicle.
We propose to give some specimens of
the eloquence and logic used by speakers
to secure the defranchisement of their own
constituents, the very voters that had elect.
ed them. And these very men, too, most
of them to our own knowledge had pledged
themselves, during the campaign, not to
interfere with the suffrage act if elected,
and upon this pledge they secured enough
women's votes to have defeated them if
those votes had all been turned against
them.
But we were present and took down in
substance the speeches of two men, and we
propose to give them for the amusement of
our readers, promising that VIC give the
cract ,cords used. .e
Mr.. Nuckols said: {: Incver saw the sun
60 down upon an election day when l had
been engaged in political contest, strug-
Cling to secure the triumph Of my priuci-
pies and party, that did not feel that
had been engaged 10 dirty, disreputable
business such business as no woman
could be engaged in without morally de-
grazing herself"
Mr.. Nuckolls further said 81 think
women were made to obey men. They
generally promise to obey at any rate, and
think you had better either abolish this
female suffrage act or get up new mar
riage ceremony to fit it," He closed his
eloquent appeal with the entirely original
remark, =" I don't think women ought to
mingle in the dirty pool ofpolitics." Here
the venerable ex- Member Of Congress sat
down, evidently overcome by his feelings.
But
/" Lo the conqusing hero comes -
The narrow guage member from Chey-
enne flies to the rescue. His head is very
small, but what he lacks in brains is made
up by thickness of skull. He is the same
gentleman who, in fit of righteous indig-
nation, turned Democrat because Repub-
lican President refused to appoint him p.
NJ. (Which is Postmaster) at Cheyenne.
We have seen the letter he wrote to Wash
ington to secure that appointment, and it
is :" very tetchn" We don't wonder he
was mad and went back on his party. He
is living refutation of the old maxim,
that ga man can't talk without saying
something" Bot our readers shall have
the speech-rer6atin..
Mr.. Steele said: The Governor hadn't
got no right to veto this bill. He hasn't
got no right to veto this bill nor nothin'
that we pass unless it is somethin' wich af-
te, it is passed it shall appear that it is
wrong or that there is somethiu' wrong by
wich reason it had ought to not become a
law, accordin' to my reasonin'. am will
lin every old woman shall hcv guardian
if she wants one aud kin git it. a -
Politics is very dirty pool! Women
here in Cheyenne went into houses Of pros
titutiou and offered from one to five dollars
apiece for votes. They got so degraded as
| 70 90 70 the pOiiS ouu 8SA OtucE WO0cu W
20 and vote and vote for Gods sake, and
not let them get away with US !!
It amt no party question this bill ain't.
wouldn't let it como up in that shape.
l would know better than that. This
woman suffrage business will sap the foun-
dation Of society. Women cant engage
in politics without losin her virtue. 1t
won't do her no good nohow. She can't
earn dollar no easier than half dollar
if she docs vote.
No woman amt got no right to sot on q
jury unless she is man aud oycry lawyer
knows it, and don't blccvc it nohow. l
dou't think women juries has been success
here in Wyomin. They watch the face Of
tho Judge too much when the lawyer is
addressin en-. That shows they amt 6t
for jurors in my way Of thiukin: ! don't
bIeeve she's fit fort nobow. Wot right
has she got on jury nohow!
We here in this Territory amt got no
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