Litchfield enquirer., 1878-12-26
Correspondence of the New York Observer
 Woman at the Polls.
LETTER FROM LADY IN WYOMING TERRITORY.

LETTER FROM A LADY IN WYOMING TERRITORY.
 Your letter on the 18th ult, asking my opinion of the practical results of Woman Suf- frage in Wyoming, is received. could have wished you had selected some abler source of information.
 came to Wyoming, some three years ago, from Missouri, and brought with me, both from nature and education, fully the usual amount of conservatism, and 1 regarded with peculiar suspicion the idea of woman's entering the political arena My observations have ma terially modified my views upon this subject. will not trespass upon your time by any elab- crate history of woman's suffragein in Wyoming, but give you brief summary of facts and re- suits as they have come under my own obser- vation.
 The women of Wyoming, and particu larly the better class, as highly prize and as gener- ally exercise the right of suffrage as do the men, Woman, from her very dependence, and comparative weakness and helplessness, feels more strongly than man does, her need of the protection of good laws faithfully executed, and in her own interest and that of those she loves, she naturally puts her vote where it will do most good for the accomplishment of his end.
 The elections here are conducted as quietly and decorously as any other public gathering, and have finally concluded that if the sexes can associate together with impunity in the home, the school, the church, the social gather ing, and Tn every relation of life from the cra- de to the grave, woman need not be seriously demoralized by her momentary association with her husband, father, lover and brother once year at the polls
 1t IS true, women very generally vote as do their husbands. know several instances how ever, where the wife votes one way and the husband the other, but have never known or heard of it's generating any unpleasantness in their family relations. The pioneers of the West, whatever their faults, are not SO intol- erant as to abuse their wives because of diff ference in opinion in politics or even iB relig- ion The fact that husbands and wives usu. ally vote alike seems to me no objection It is only placing an additional power and influ- ence In the government of the country where It ls most needed and will zesuraify De most wisely used. The more the home influence is felt in the general government the better. It IS not from that source, but from the restless. the wandering. the indifferent, not to say the vicious, who have no home or domestic ties and responsibilities, that danger is to be ap- prehended.
 Almost every lady here is-not only reconcil ed to, but highly gratified with the practical results of woman suffrage in Wyoming.
 The only element that would desire it's re- peal are the vicious and corrupt-those who fear not God nor regard man--who. fear it's power and are restless under the restraint it helps to improve.
 The women are more generally republicans, but they are less governed by party considera- tions than men, and both political parties have come to recognize the necessity of selecting their best men: or at least not nominating bad men, if they desire to succeed.
 The sconsen hold the basance of posoer and
  here more than one instance has come under my own observation, where corrupt or i'm moral men have been defeated in their efforts to secure positions of high public trust, and it has been generally conceded that their defeat is attributed to the direct influence of woman suffrage
 !. If had the time to write and you the pa- tiencc. to read it, should like ta draw for yon a true picture of the result of wonlan's infin- ence (backed by the ballotl upon our schools, in the jury box, and in all the relations of life,