Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-01-12
HOy' THE Is'O.uB.v OF GREELEy'
p'OTED FOR POSY.N.fSTER.

The new Coloradian colony at Greeley,
Colorado began TO think their old post
master, Gen. Cameron, was having too
good thing of it, for he was drawing the
salary without doing the work, and had
lately separated his interests from those OF
the colony and gone TO New York to work
up a new emigration in behalf of rival
town. So they agreed to name a new man
for his place, and TO take Il vote for him
from both the men and women of the col
ony. There were two candidates, Mr..
Flower, who was the father-n-aw and
partner of Gen. Cameron and the acting
postmaster as well, and young lawyer
named Gibson. The polls were open at
o'clock. Mr.. Gibson's leutenants, Col. c.
4. White, and Drake, procured Il large
two-horsc sleigh and started for votes.
There were flags, bells, notices, posters
and good-looking young men, and in
short time the hall was packed with wo-
men and girls, all crowding up to vote for
Gibson. Then Mr.. Flower sent for bells
and fast team, and gave orders for the
driver to "corral' all the women who
would vote, and bring them to the "front."
The news spread like new cider, and in
the course of two hours the scene remind
ed one ofa political camp-meeting. Court
ing a girl on the Lower Arkansas was
nothing to the way in which Gibson and
Flower soduccd the loveiness and flower OF
Greeley from the undarned stockings of
their domestic hearh-stones We must
not forget to mention another phrase of the
contest: Early in the morning, Miss Emily
Morris sent some young girls around with
tickets bearing her name, and notwith-
standing the short notice, she received sew
eral votes, and then withdrew from the
field. At o'clock the perspiration fairly
stood on the brows of the respective candi-
dates. The excitement increased, and by
sundown the sleighs were flying through
the streets. The women were getting ex-
cited, and their enthusiasm glowed like
pine knots. One of the leading merchants
soon rushed up the street in a two-horse
cutter, and soon returned sitting in the laps
of three ladies, while the horses shot
through the streets to the polls. At the
polls, Mr.. Gibson escorted the fair ones up
stairs to vote, while the wholesale gentle
horses were procured, and the excitement
increased. At s the polls were to close.
Time was precious. Gibson knew of Il
dozen ladies up town, who must be brought
at once. Marx rushed oil for three girls,
ON the east side, and SO they came, young
girls, servants, old ladies with silver hairs,
brides, and women with young babies,
until ii seemed rs though all the argu-
menis that Brother Todd had ever made,
were to be utterly swept away. Ten min
utes to s! Here comes Mr.. Flower with
his arms full of weak minded womanhood
who vote like men. Three minutes later
the cutter swings around the corner at
whi,o heat, and the next minute Gibson
sweeps up the aisle with beautiful women,
fragrant with perfume and embroidered
with blushes and smiles. The moments
hung in suspense, Col. White, the man
of wonderful stories and bloody battles,
looked anXiously for the last rose of au-
tumn. She came glowing like ivory and
vermiiou, and just rs the last moment
hoped from the box she deposited her
thunderbolt. Gibson eceived the last vote;
aud then the clerks commenced counting.
Gibson was defeated like a man, and Mr..
Flower went home rejoicing. Gibson is a
young lawyer, who recently came from
Wisconsin. Considering that he is not an
original colonist, it is highly credible that
he received only so ballots less than his OPP
ponent. Miss Morris had 10 votes. Tho
lesson OF this election is, that women can
and will vote at moments notice. Gen.
Cameron has eloquently denounced the
women who want to vote, yet his entire
family marched up to the jaws of the bal
lot box only two days ago. Last summer
a young man fairly scorned the arguments
of Mill and Boccheri on Saturday he took
his wife to the polls and told her to do her
duty, In addition to the views of Chaplin