The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-03-29

favorably to woman Is suffrage here / 90 40
SO not for the purpose Of Tepaying the
lady voters Of this territory for political
favots,, for in 1877 they asked me by
their ballot, not to 90 to the legislature
and they we're SO importunate in their
request that did not 60.
This was an argument to me which
went far toward convincing me that wo-
men do not vote for q candidate because
he may be fair to look upon. ! was then
as fine a specimen of manly beauty az
you would meet in many q day. NY
brow had not stolen over toward the
back Of my neck At that time, and the
look Of care ind billiousness had not set
tied down upon my classic features. My.
opponent was not tine-looking. He was
rather plain, but the ladies got the idea
he knew more than did. Perhaps he
did. Still no was not refined. .s.
Election day in Wyoming is as orderly
as celebration OF Fourth of July. La
dies walk to the polls or ride in carriages,
as they may prefer, and the point with
each party is to secure the most aud best
carriages and horses at any
price. The republicans at this election
arose.-early in the morning, while it
was yet night, and got themselves unto
those that keep chariots aud steeds, and
they said unto them, give US our rigs and
spare not our turncuts, and whatsoever
is right we will put up for them. And
they went their way.
And when the hour was come in
which the voter went forth for to vote,
he and his wife and handmaiden, be-"
hold! if he were a republican he rode
in q $3.50 phaeton, and if he were DEM
ocrat, behold! he walked even unto the
the polls, or rode in market wagon.
At Cheyenne the democrats were
obliged to telegraph to Denver for car
riages, and they were shipped there at a
big cost. The legitimate expenses of the
campaign here are great. This is not
due in any way to female suffrage, but
the custom of the country. Mr.. Post,
the democratic candidate for delegate to
congress, has expended 10000, so far,
and the office does not pay the actual ex-
penses incident to it, so that in this case
$40, 200 goes for glory entirely.
Woman are a great deal quicker TO
see through certain political dodges than
men. With the same chance, they tum:
campaign lie,, and nail it quicker than
bands tell them either. I have a case
in M mind now which proved this to
me at once. l claim to have fair de.
gree of influence in my own family, but
ut this election there seemed to he a
kind OF throwing off of all restraint. as it
were and there was kind of fearless
ness visible that didn't look for. 1t is
4 little notifying for a man to promise
his party that he will vote himself, his
wife and the cook for a certain candidate,
and then find that he cannot deliver
the goods. Yet there is no ill feeling
over it. It's just like talking religion at
home. may feel that I can worry
along without hell while my wife and
the cook may disagree with me. This
brings about a feeling of independence
socially which is novel and interest
ing.
Our mass meetings believe to be of a
better class than any other in the world.
Ladies have reserved seats, and that
discourages class of blatant bombast
and political swaggers that used to be
pretty general. Political speeches have
to be pruned down here little, and it's
a good thing. You go to a political
meeting as You would 20 to a literary
entertainment, and I believe most
thoroughly that Wyoming has brought
the political rally up to a standard far
above what it has been in the states.
Looking this letter over carefully am
to notice little fragments of
information scattered through it, which
I cannot eliminate without destroying
the sense of my article. This must be
my excuse for an unusual feature in my
letters.