Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-05


Dear Missis Editor.-Well, Toreign
folks say they can always tell Yam
kee, because he never commences to
talk without saying "Well") but as /
was about to say when that about the
ankees came into my mind and pat
it all cut, wells the political campaign
is over and everything is quiet like
agam Its been nothing hu+ politics
to our house for the laat month or may
pc tlFe weeks; not that my husband is
r,lllnl9slng Tor Office, for he haint nor
wasn't, but he has an awful Timber
Dt22nSAe in his head, John has, and
le8Hther fellows that was a wanting
TO get into office. they have kept a
coming and 1t coming and taking
John with them, till I never knew
whether he was coming home to a
meal OF not. 1t was awful provoking,
and had to do all the chores too.
and when he did come home his head
was SO chuck full OF well. they've got
to be downed' and "mugwumps" and
"suppoft'em" ard "ringsters" and
"bolsters" and prohibition" that he
wouldn't say sensible word. He
generally came home about three o'clock
in the morning and then would lay
there ahd bea Whispering over politi-
cal speeches, instead Of going right to
sleep aa he had ought to- And next
day If he did lot startright away after
breakfakt, he would SO as soop as he
got his dinner, and that would be the
last OF h m tor that day. And there
was the late potatoes to be dug which.
would have all been frozen the ground
II hadn't seen to digging them, and
the cabbage and beets to be put i'll the
cellar ana stables and sheds to be fixed
up for winter, and fall plowing to be
done and lots OF things. 1t seems to
me politics is just like a epidemic that
goes all dyer the country every two
years and Rttacks ablebodied men, and
makes them useless, so far as farm
work is pncerned. And l think it's
disgraceful, the way it makes men
talk and abuse each other and call
them names. John said that after
election men would calm down and be
good friends again. But l wouldn't.
If anyone wonld call me u lar Id re-
member to the last clay Of my life,
and ii would be very hard for me to
forgive them. Now the other day,
Mlssis Goodwin came over, brought
her baby and her knitting and spent
the afternoon, and she was telling me
that you, Missis Editor, think that
women ought to know something
about politics. They take the HERALD
we don't this year. bit maybe we can
next, if the potatoes don't all come
pretty near freezing next fall like they
did this, and John will stay at ONE
and take care Of things. And she said
NJ isses Goodwin did, that you thought
that women could make politics bet
ter II they could vote. She kept on
talking till she got me so stirred up 1
ust thought I'd sit down and write to
you, and you can put it in your paper
or notas you see fit. In the first place
| I'd like to know who would see to
things at home ii I went gadding
round the country with John. Now
John is a pretty good man and general
ly stays at homeand works hard, but
you see this political fever is awful
catching, and John was really not
responsible and to blame, tor all he did
or rather didn't. And supposing had
been running round making speeches
in school houses and the like, how
disgraceiul and unwomanly it would
have been, and then going to the vot-
ing place where there was Il crowd Of
men and voting. Why wouldn't
know who TO vote for. Acc ordlng to
what few papers | got hold Of. there
was an awful poor set of men running
for office III this county anyway
Something said against nearly every
one. 4! should vote I'd want TO vote
for good man or none at all. And
hows a body gong to tell. I'd just
rather let 1t alone, and stay at home or
GO visiting among nay friends, and not
be bothered with thinking about poll
ties. If you put this in your paper OF
answer it maybe iii write some more
But my bread IS ready to mix now SO
ODDLY. DoRorH Y DoTY.
We viii try to reply next week.-Ed
Among the eminent women III at
tendance at the National W. G. II. y
convention held last week in Minneap-
oils were Frances Willard. Mrs. Mary
.Lathrop, DR.. Mary Weeks Burnet, DR.
Kate Bushnell, Caroline Buell., Sally
Chaplin and Mary Allen West.
The women OF Hyde county, had d
} separate ballet box and voted last
election day. They wanted to express
public opinion and practice handling
the ballot. The votes are to he count