, 1888-10-11
GIVE THE LADIES A snow.
AsIfeig Letter en-the-&eneFaE Subject
of Political Recognition.
To the Editor of The Leader.

To the Editor of The Leader.
CHEYENNE, Oct. al have been
asked by several ladies of Cheyenne to
express through the columns of your
paper their thanks to the Democratic
party of Laramie county for the courtesy
that was shown them by placing on the
ticket at the late convention the name of
a lady to fill the position of county super
intendent of schools. Not only for the
placing of the name there, and in one of
the most honorable offices, but also in the
interest shown by the members of that
convention and the party they represent
In standing by the nominee and working
for her election.
Ladies as a general thing are non-par-
tisan, and perhaps take more interest in
the personality of a ticket than the pol
itics of it, but in a case of this kind, when
in a territory where the ballot has been
placed in the hands of woman even
before she was educated to the use Of it
or realized the importance of rightly APP
preciating it, it is but just, and certainly
polite to give her an opportunity to dem
onstrate to the world that while she is
willing at all times to conccde to man the
management of the political machinery at
large, that in the school and educational
interests of the community her voice is to
heard.
That the Democratic party of Laramie
county has so placed itself on record, au-
gurs well for its success, and certainly to
us ladies who have at heart the welfare of
this county aud territory it has, u~nsolic-
tied, compliiuented US. We can but feel
that when a gentleman Of Southern pro-
~clivities and ideas comes before a conven-
ton and tells the delegates they have done
wisely in placing a lady's name before the
people for their suffrage, that our mis-
takes in the use of the ballot have been
few, or are generously overlooked.
The lady In question is eminently fitted
In every respect to fill so high a position,
and none of the old cries can be used upon
this occasion. The ladies of Cheyenne,
as never before, are taking an interest in
this election. Already l have had ladies
tell me who have never voted, that they
will vote at this election for the sake of
voting for a lady, and we bespeak for oau.
candidate a hearty support-not alone by
the ladies of the county, but by gentle
men, who ought to feel, even if they do
not, that it is truly a compliment to the
educational interests of the county, to
their wives and sisters. mothers and
daughters. and most of all to the higher
influence of woman, who barriers neither
her principles nor her influence in using
the ballot.
There may be gentlemen in our midst
pledged to party support, who otherwise
could con%scienslously vote for Mrs. Brock
ons, and [ ask them to consider the fact
that this Office is not a political office, in
the truest sense of the term. They should
not feel that the bonds of the party or
ganization are so CALLING hat they can not
be broken; a poor vow is always better
broken than kept, especially a political
one. In one of the late conventions it
strikes me several aoere broken or else
never made. Therefore may we not ask
for the lady candidate a hearty support
from the politicians who in return ask for
the support of the ladies of Laramie
county. Respectfully yours,
THERESE A. JENKINS.