Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1882-11-17
LETTER FROM OMAHA.
The Political Reyolutlon---The Wo
men Suffrage Question, and
Women at the Polls.

OMAHA, Nov. ]. ZIP. NJ. 1882.
EDITOR GRAPHIC: AS you have al
ready learned, the Republican part
has met with defeat all along the line
So much for bossism, and the method
by which the ringsters and machine
men have been forced upon the peo
| pie.
Men may say what they please re
garding this great political revolution
and attribute it to the River and Har
Dor steal, and anything else they ART
a mind to,but these things are all bosh
The rule or ruin policy ofthe bosses i!
the milestone about the neck Of the Re
publican party.
Is their any one insane enough tc
think that any act of Congress, how
ever unpopular could have caused the
election of Butler to the governorship
of Massachusetts,, or that any other
cause save the arrogance and stupidi-
ty of the would be Republican leaders
could have made change Of los 900
votes in New York, with such a man
as Folger as the candidate? Or that
through any other cause enough votes
could be drawn from the regular Re-
publican party III Pennsylvania to elect
a democratic governor
For years The grand achievements of
the Republican party have secured the
fealty of the great body ofindependent t
Republicans, Notwithstanding the re-
peated outrages perpetrated upon them
by the self.constituted leaders of the
party. And to-day they have arisen
in their might and declared their con.
demnation OF such methods. This
change has been brought
about not by the Demo-
Gratis but by Republicans-and that
too, not because they have any love
for democracy but because they could
no longer stand the arrogance of the
bosses. To the machine and its meth
DDS this defeat belongs. Now let
them take the consequences of the de-
|eat. Then let them repent in sack.
cloth and ashes, and prove by their
actions that they are Republicans from
principle that it is the eternal truths of
instead of their own
selfish ends which prompts their ac-
ion, and two years hence the grand old
oarty will sweep the country from
Maine to California. They must un-
lerstand the Republican party is not
he party of the few.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
For more than a month the leading
Woman Suffragists have been stumping
he state in behalf of the Suffrage
amendment, they have worked ear
testify and faithfully, never ceasing
heir labor until the polls closed this
vening. 1 to-day made a tour of the
iferent wards and at each of the vot-
1g places save one the ladies were
resent and earnestly electioneering.
It noon they set lunches of coffee,
old meats, bread cake &c. &c. They
7ere still ladies Notwithstanding they
7ere at the polls and the crowd was
espectful except at one place. In
outh Omaha where the voters are
enerally Bohemians, Kesler's saloon
as selected as the voting place. 1t is
aid to be one of the hardest places in
lie city, yet when l was there at four
clock p. NJ, everything was quiet, al
lough beer was flowing freely in TIE
lloon while just outside the ladies
ere faithfully at work peddling tickets
nd electioneering. S
AT one voting place l counted twen-
7-seven ladies among whom were :
[iss Susan B. Anthony, Miss Phoebe |
ozens, and some of the leading la. |
es of this city. r
Miss Cozens and Mrs Nicholas made
eeches at some of the voting places Ii
day, but in one OF the wards Miss .
ozens was Kissed down, and IN anoth. =
in the after part of the day, the a
lies were driven from the polls, so l h
derstand; otherwise, and so far as l G
W everything was extremely quiet and S,
derby. ST
But after all this earnest work, the =,
lies were badly beaten-snowed un D
in fact.-by ballots against the n
lendment. They deserved better in
e and are entitled to much credit, N
their patience and industry. a,
The whole democratic ticket is cleo b,
in this county, and the republican h1
iorlty greatly reduced in the state. ST
result OF the machine methods by d,
lch conventions were conducted, h,
disgusting large element of re- to
ollcans. The Antimonopolists have M
tets in the field, also the Labor er