Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-12-27
THE WOMAN POLITICS.
How s he Conducts u Newspaper During
Campaign.
From the Rochester Democrat ]

From the Rochester Democrat
We alluded the other day to a politica! pa
pe edited by "a Western lady. A number of
the paper issued since the election in her To-
cality shows that her entire ticket was de-
teated; and we Judge from hasty perusal
of her articles in reference thereto that she
feels very much worked up about it. "lt is
true" she saws, ''that we have been defeated
badly, woefully defeated; but truth crushed
to earth shall rise again. This is the cor
rect spirit, and we would that the other arti-
cles mentioned exhibited like Difference to
the voice of the ballot box. They do not.
Indeed, they show condition bordering on
Mysteries
"Oh!" she says, ''that sweet man, Joseph
Ferguson, is defeated. We would have stood
almost anything but that. He was faithful,
he was true, he was all that the warmest
fancy might have painted him. Yet the min
ions of the ballot-boX have chosen to vote tor
the other man! We cannot think Of it with
any patience. 1t shows that the people are
not prepared for the divine right of suffrage:
There is, indeed, no ray of sunlight in all
this vast abyss of woe.'
The lady has husband. We learn that
the husband read the article and didn't like 1t
at all. He said that in his view there was a
and if he knew anything about it it was the
latter article that dictated the article in Ques-
ton.
1--WE weep bitterly" the old lady remarks
in another place, cover the slight vote ac-
corded our candidate for treasurer. 1t was q
shame. 1t was an outrage. No nobler man
ever lived than MIR. Smith. AS husband
and the father of ten children he has not his
ennal in the WOrld.'
'sThat is hit on me-" said the husband,
turning pale. "1ts very strange that women
can't talk politics without rejecting upon
somebody. It's most remarkable that they
can't go proper distance with their admir-
alton and stop there. The readers of this
paper will Judge to man that this article is
a direct reflection on the writer husband"
He read in another place: 'There is nc
person in this country who did not love our
candidate for judge. We speak earnestly
they loved him. Then why was he defeated
the cause is obvious. We allude to the COZ.
spiracy now familiar to our readers. 1t was
the conspiracy that killed him"
$50 they loved him did they?' remarked
the husband with intense scorn and flashing
eyes. ''This comes of women talking poll
tics. Suppose all the women were to vote
where would be domestic confidence then
There would be but one prosperous class in
the whole community. Every divorce lawyer
in the country would be as rich as Cr9sus.
shall 60 mad!"
A portion of the paper is badly printed.
The type seems to have been smashed OF
something. The last words of the editorial
page that are readable are, ''Good heavens
that this fiend in human shape''-aRd there
an end. Who the fiend in human shape is,
the readers of the paper are not informed.
1t is only evident that there was dreadful
ugly accident, and one or two persons must
have been badly hurt. Wcawait further par.
ticulars with some anxiety.