The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-12-13
ANOTHER A
From the New York Times Correspondent
Against Woman suffrag e.
He Repeats His Former Assertions and
Piles on the Agony Still
Further.

@NhS oAACoPOloCL
of the New York Times has turned
himself loose again to the extent Of a
column and a half. His article Is
mainly a repetition OF his former state
%lnents, mixed In with extracts from
newspapers and other authorities,
which he presses into service to help
substautiate his statements. Unfor-
%tunately for him they do not tend to
c~orroborate the theory which he is
laboring to prove that woman suffrage
Is a fashion in Wyoming. He says:
As I stated In my last letter, three OF the
four governors OF Wyoming nave had a good
word to say about woman suffrage In their
messages. 1 hear that a "broadside" is to
be issued by the New York Woman Suffrage
State committee, made up of extracts from
these messages for the purpose OF affording
proof from high authority hat woman
suffrage has been a boon to Wyoming. / have
a good right to use these extracts, as 1t was 1
who put them together and gave them to the
world about a year ago.
II, as he says, these extracts were
collated and given to the world by him,
what new light has been shed upon the
subject that has caused 80 thorough
and radical a change in his opinions in
the course Of one short year, for it is
naturally to be assumed that he would
not publish these favorable statements
unless he were in sympathy with them.
The extracts in question are taken
from the messages of Governors Camp
bell, Thayer and Hoyt, and they are
without exception highly favorable.
Mr.. Hoyt, in particular, says:
Elsewhere, obJectors persist in calling this
honorable statute OF ours an experiment.
We know IL Is not-that under 1t we have
better laws. better officers, better institu-
lions, better morals. and a higher social con-
dition In general than could otherwise exist;
that not one OF the predicted evils, such as
loss OF native delicacy and disturbance OF
home relations has followed In its train; that
the great body OF our women, and the best of
them have accepted the elective franchise as
a precious boon and exercised 1t as a patriot
happy experience, woman suffrage is so thor
oughly rooted and established In the minds
and hearts of this people that among them
all no voice is ever upliftedi In protest against
or in question oft.
But this hypercritical correspondent
is not satisfied with this. He writes:
Does any one OF these governors say. in the
un~mlstakable terms in which an ascertained
fact may be stated, that the women OF wyo-
ming. by a power ererted through the bal
lot-box. have at any time performed any
work. evaded, neglected, or not usually done
in communities governed by men but which
was the outcome OF womanly wisdom, vir-
tue, insight, courage, sense of wrong. or con.
ception OF reformr What they say is that
whereas father and brother formerly voted,
m other and sister now vote too. and the lat
ter have not lost their deIicscy in doing It
and have not broken up the family in argu-
ing politics. l say the same. Ladies' vote in
Wyoming uniformly with becoming propIie-
ty. and with no more risk TO their modesty
than is incioent upon their going to market.
A hack calls at a lady's house for her on cleo
ton day, she is driven to the polls accom-
panied by a male friend, the mon standing
around the window give way, her name 10
given to the poll clerk. her ballot is put into
the box. and she is then driven homo. The
hack hire is paid by q campaign commit
tee, and her trip 10 the polls is about all she
ever sees OF political life. Once / saw a few
ladies' In the opera house in Cheyenne at a
political mass meeting. 1 never heard hus-
band and wife arguing politics.
1t would seem that when the highest
official Of the territory states that un-
der woman suffrage 1--WE have better
laws, better officers, better institutions,
better morals, and a higher social con
dition in general than could otherwise
exist" such an assertion might carry
some weight. But this self-elected
judge sets the verdict aside, and in his
infinite wisdom, gives judgement for
the other side. Leaving this division
of the question he goes on to support
his previous assertions in regard to the
prevalence of social and political evils
in Wyoming. That such evils exist is
undeDiable, but that their existence is
earnestly deprecated by the best ele-
ment Of our population is equally I'M
deniable. There is a growing senti-
ment here in favor Of a higher code of
social ethics, and its effects are being
slowly but surely felt, and in time will
have there perfect work. The cores
pendent supports his position in re-
gard to the political situation by ex-
tracts from the LEADER, published af-
ter the primary and general elections of
1882. These articles undoubtedly sup
port his position, but it SO happens that
they were written by the same gentle
man himself while editor of this paper,
and a nice sense of propriety would
have shown the bad taste of bringing
them up to fortify his present position
in a way which would carry the i'm
preston TO those not conversant with
the facts that they emanated from n
other authority. From this be pro-
ceeds to comment upon the words Of
the LEADER and Sun at the time the
first letter to the Times was published,
and also makes some remarks regard
ing the election OF liquor dealers to
office. He finishes his epistle as fol-
lows:
As 10 women voting for personal merit"
In candidates, that is a point a Jury might
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