The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1886-06-24
WOMEN IN
Evidence that They Take an Active
Interest in Politics..

Evidence that They Take IN Active
Interest in Politics..
Scattered all over the broad prairies
of Montana are refined and cultured
women, bred in %afiuence and ease,
proud, young and hopeful, called by
the misfortunes of their husbands or
led by their desires to enter and achieve
III new fields the mission of life, to sur
render society, the home, the friends
and scenes of their youth, and march
boldly to q far off wilderness and en-
dure p%rivation, toll, labor and suffer
ing. But these women have grown to
be brave, Industrious. selfreliant, tull
of pluck and energy, perfect horse
women. healthy, hearty, active, and in
dependent, and in many cases about as
pretty and as plump us the very best of
climates can make them. Now, the
typical Montana Girl if left alone will
succeed where an ordinary man would
fall. With nc vices, they stick closely
to business, and if bent on treeclaim-
ing, homesteading, or pre-empting a
quarter, half, or whole section of land,
they generally stay by the claim to the
end and prove up on time.
Many of these enterprising damsels
wouldn't have a husband at any price.
Again, many after laying the founda-
tons of a comfortable fortune are taken
in by some lazy bachelor who comes
loafing along, sees the chance, marries
the maiden, and settles down into a
nice, ready-made home. Our girls are
lrno ar, .~ Tu--
are up to all sorts of schemes, such as
r%anching, herding of sheep or cattle,
school superintendent and even poll
tics. The latter should be expected,
however, as the females of Montana
have the right of suffrage extended to
them in case they happen to be tax
payers. As nearly every woman in the
territory is a taxpayer, why, of course,
she votes. as she has a perfect right to
do. In Bozeman, a few miles west of
here, one can see plastered all over the
town placards appealing to the passer-
by to ''Vote for Hamilton, the peoples
choice" or Give your vote to Darcy"
or Vote for Nichols and reform"
Hamilton, Nichols, and Darcy were
candidates for the school superin-
tendedcy of the county, and a fourth
candidate vas in the tield-a man. 1t
is needless to add that s'the horrid
man was beaten by all three of the
girls, Hamilton coming out ahead. A
local paper came u a few days before
the election with the following: Ham
ilton enters the field against the odds
OF regular party nominations. Hamil-
ton has got sand; she will stay until the
polls are closed. Hamilton should be
She says she isn't afraid of
road agents, and that education is her
also, that it would afford her
to hop around from one coun-
try schoolhouse to another in the per-
Torrance of her duty. The men of
county are COMPOUNDED mean
f they don't run Hamilton in. There
S no question that female suffrage is a
benefit to Montana. Female jurors in
which involve intemperance,
breaches of promise, and gaming would
lang a culprit on moderate testimony.
Yet with all this girls are scarce in
Montana. The town of Maiden close
the county seat of Fergus county,,
whose name is suggestive of wit,
etc, is in fact a safe retreat for
'achelOrs, since there is not an unmar-
lady in the town. Sadie, whence
tese lines are being penned, is a COM
of forlorn bachelors, with not a
emale within a radius of fifteen miles,
xcepting the Crow squaws in the
eighboring Indian camp. One old
achelor wandering around the village
as a $4,000 bank account and no one
D help him spend it. 1t is reported
lat Il matrimonial syndicate with head
uarters in New York city has a branch
flee in Helena and that the main Office
as received %, 240 orders for wives for
bachelors. How true this
hay be [ can not say; but I know that
he 5000 bachelor referred to recent
wrote to Helena, asking for assist
nee in securing a wife. Sadie has
either a rapid OF healthy growth. If
he single misery of her forlorn bache-
'rs was properly advertised perhaps a
of old maids might be induced
pack up and come hither and marry
p the numerous fortunes and embryo
ONES wasting on the desert air.
adie (M. ~ Correspondence San /
francisco Chronicle. ,