Daily Republican., 1884-04-15
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Female sanrage. In
If Mrs. w. Cogshall tells the truth, 6
and we believe she does, female suffrage Il
in Wyoming Territory, is not painted o
in such roseate hues as were thrown 8
around it by its friends before the t
women were admitted to the ballot. t
Mrs. Cogshall is evidently an intelli- s
gent lady and knows whereof she
speaks. We do not believe either that
she is a lady who stands in mortal fear
of her husband if she were to vote dif- l.
ferent from the way he votes. Accord
ing to her evidence the man who has
wife has two votes instead of one, anu
If he has daughters Of voting age he has
nm additional vote for every daughter,
that Is the wives and the daughter ap-
near at the election polls when they do
vote, take their tickets and hand them
to the inspectors, only being careful
that their tickets are the same that
their husbands and fathers vote.
Women as general thing desire to have
pleasant, happy homes as they are more
about home than the mel, ,and they lind
that the shortest cut to pleasant home
is not to vote differently from the lord
of the home Mrs. Cogshall says she
has been looking into this matter OF
women suffrage with a sincere desire TO
see where It's benefits lay and she says
she has not known a half-dozen women
to vote differently to the male members
of the family, and in many instances
when they have dared to do so bitter
feelings have been engenderea which
disrupted family ties.
The refusal of one woman to vote Tor
another woman's husband who was
running for an office, led to estrange
ment and bad feeling. Mrs. Cogshai
thinks that one drawback to womer
taking an interest in the elections is thu
fact that they pay nothing but a pol
tax, very few of them being propert.
holders. As it is very few Of them have
any idea of the difference between lie
publican and a Democrat.
The women, it seems, are not lnvlte
to take any part in the primary elet
tions, but after the nominations ar
made the men become wondertuii,
polite, and are anxious to for them com
in and help to elect them to office. Atte
this the women are again ignored an
may 90 back to drudgery of cookin
and washing, and attending to the nu
sery, and the men run the political m;
chine. The women simply do not see
to care about the elections after the
have participated in one they afte
wards feel as if they had been doir
something they had no business to q
1t has been contended by the frien'
of women suffrage that if they hi
votes, they would all vote right, tn
they would not be governed by t
small partisan feeling that contr'
men, but Mrs. Cogshall ventures to $
that not two women in the Ierrlto
would vote for a Republican II her nj
hand was Democrat, or would W
for a Democrat if her husband was
Republican.
Most women take their tickets tr
their husbands and never look at Tn
at all, but hand them in TO the lnsl
tor, and if any scratching is done 1t
not done by the woman.
This is rather dark picture of fem
suffrage, and if it works no better e.
where than in Wyoming it will 81
become one of the obsolete isms OF
times. But temperance men are W
derfully anxious that women shall '
only for one purpose, imagining that
would en- masse rush to the polls
put down the liquor traffic. 1t Is
possible that they would be as m
disappointed in their expectations
this respect as the people OF Wyon
were.
If women humbly obey their
bands and fathers at the polls in po
cal matters,i it stands toreason that
would be as easily controlled in m m
questions. After all, it looks as II
true sphere of women lay in educa
the voters to cast the right kind o
ballet.