The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-09-11
ChegnteIligeufe1.
,,ov,N Suffrage IN WYOM-
Wv" ING.
, r,oor md Candid Summary Of
49, Workings in that Territory
tE,rr,Ihing Just ns II Was bc'
$50. I5nIy u Little More 3d.

nh, practical operations OF woman SUI
49, m mis- territory have always inter
nrs me- aud | have embraced frequent
e,' ,,.'r,rpjlic, in passing through togatheF
o Xxx, iact, could on the subject. The
wa" ,,'o, nj such a fraud in Utah that
~ I, whether any Gentle from there /.
u u, i,npart,al Judge OF it anywhere, and
a., 4" therefore, content myself with pre-
sna ,;,, o n mas, Of evidence have collect
s AZ an hi. aud preceding visits to Wyom'
81 "" ,,;,L i,s or no comments Of my own,
w w." Gr.t fact that strikes the truth
IT," tbccxtrcme difficulty Of gather
; ,,',,sny met, at all, In no part Of the
"" Sn %|; i, the peculiarly Of Wyoming 80
I I;,,,,. r,Iked oil a, in Wyoming, Tho pa.
" ,,. are ,ilen, On it Tor the most part, and
pp,Iiticiln- seen, by common consent to
"r dropprd it. | sought the secretary
"i,se territory but he pleaded that he
I'd w. i nnIy been here six months, and knew
lining about it. The principal news
J 5 had only been here a year; his wife
" nss'r yolrI aud he could tell me moth
h i, several others were in the same fix,
ael | only found Two persons VINO Woulu
talk freely aud decidedly on Tue matter
-Mf,. Either Morris, oi Laramie ana
Ma b Post, Of this city, both ardent
.a,r,ssi.g., TuJudgc Fisher, Of this city,
onJ Territorial Librarian Slaughter, |
am also indebted Tor some lacS'
W. have often heard IN ihe East lhat
woman suffrage had worked lhe regeheF'
a,iynVl Wyoming, aOull'n'ls al saluolS
aud social evils, aOu all t"at sott u
thing, but one can sec without getting
gu! ii the cars that nat Is AL nonsense
But think SIC ,houI,l assume III starting
thlt the ,y,Icm here $40 test whatever
either fOr or against, as to what !! would
produce in the East, Tor not only Is there
nueycudcd government here, Us mere,
bat there are 80 few to be governed 1hat
one can really determine very little about
it, Wyoming is twice the SIZE oil Penn
,yIyaUil, and has only hall me poPuia;;
ton Of an average county ~ Ohl0i anu OF
that hall only Onc'Icnth Is made up OIL
women Of voting age. Obviously, under
thu most favorable circumstances, civil
government could have no such extended
functions Is in the states. Al! officers oil
Importance are appointed at Washington
the governor, secretaries, district
judges, marshall, commissioners aud
tOac others, Ol the $4,000 square miles
in the territory not the twelfth part lie as
lOW rs 1900 feet above sea level, and the
largest town contains no more than %.
OOpeopIc.
The whole area is divided into five
counties, each extending across the ter:
ritOry from north to SOUTH the seat OF
government for each sin the south end
There are five trading towns along tho
railroad, and in all the rcstoithe country
the sparsc population |. scattered in min.
ing, hunting and hetdidg camps. From
any town criminal can take u horse
and b. in the trackIes' wilderness in three
hours. When captured, jiils are few and
Ilr between; court often many days tray.
81 away, aud the expenses Of Il trial enOr-
nous, Obviously, civil government can.
not have the functions it has in an old
State with farm joining farm and settle.
mcnt contiguous to settlement, and
every county lraver,cd by thought.spced.
Ing lines Of wire aud rail. Obviously
each isolated settlement must be to u
great extent Il Law unto itself; and gener.
al laws apply only in these five towns
aud vicinity Elsewhere, when Grim.
nal iscnptured, he IL either hanged or
shot, or sonndly whipped, according to
the magnitude Of his crime; for u whole
camp cannot come two or three hundred
miles to two or three trials. Tho only
place where voting and lAw.making can
have any effect ut all are these towns and
S@ectwatcr mining district; and all these
combined contain about ten thousand
men and one thousand women.
The entire number Of women eligible
at'vOterS in Wyoming Is reported all the
way from HOO to 1900. ] think the lat.
ter number entirely too great, but accept
itas the basis Of my notes. Woman sui.
irage in Springfield, o., would DO u much
taiter test than here, for Springfield has n
population equal to that Of Wyoming,
and one'halt females. The social and
moral statistics Of this territory may
throw side light on the question. The
total white population Ia set ut $4,000.
OF these HOO children are in school, and
II Is estimated that there are enough out
Of school to make the entire number un-
der majority 2OOO. This leaves 10000
alu'iS' Placing the women ut the larg.
cat number claimed, this leaves 1880
adult maIes-ten men to one woman. To
suppose that this little handful could
work q moral revolution by their votes,
ma wild, mountainous country twice the
8He OF Pennsylvania, Is to credit them
wlI'lslperhuman powers. But there are
other figures to subtract.
FROM the police reports ! learn that
cheyenne contains INTERPRETATIONS and
,ofly'Uye prostitutes. Some place the
laI much higher but | only include
nose known openly rs such, leaving out
'ae Suspected. Laramie has twenty.
= * saloons aud twenty-five prostitutes.
ms includes all the erjcrkers, variety
gltI', etc. But as the law has pressed
aPFe severely on such houses IN Lara.
nile, it Is said there is much larger
numoef OF kept women, not publicly
recognized, AT Evanston there are eight
, no, in. ana we've prostitutes Thl" does
v,,o" ' NJ ,ho t ,"V Tnspecleu ana PR
WrmO ", W" ,y ae" Po,yBalnons wives Of ne
ii,rJ, ' w.. ,"y'% ~, AZ sweetwater, M.
nrn"a,'i" 0' laramie 'n,,, ana Eawlins, the
pn ill., ,a Is ,ald to he smaller but out
h., .n.' ma" :" 'ne D,acS inns n tent town