Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1888-11-29
SUSSEX won ANS STORY.
what She Saw at The Polls i'm Nam
tlcoke Hundred.

what She Saw at the Polls i'm Nam
ticoRc hundred.
In letter to the Smyrna Times Mary
Ann SsuGrt says:
81 did attempt to vote at last election
November 9Th. 1t was the proudest day
of my life. When I drove upon the
grounds saw mass of men, inhabitants
of Eanticoke hundred; come were bowling
like the Indians OF old, scme shouting in
srch manner as to make one think
was al a negro cam .mee.ipg and some
had just ''got through" as the phrase
goes, but serutinizing the crowd found
the noisv ones were white men that |
knew. Like Tam O'Shanter they we're
not drunk, but gloriously drunk, two
third brother, SO full OF rum he had no
use Of himself save his tongue. The ohths
he uttered were q disgrace to the lowest
run hole in any mstropolis. There wss
his con wnose upper lip glcfied
in little fuzz or down call.
ing himself 81, who had come
out to vote en- age, bat go drunk he was
not sure where he wRs. As soon as they
saw q decent woman upon The grounds
they hunted sor retired place, or shady
nook along the fence, and when left l
saw but one of them, he wallowing in the
dirt and filth under the shade of car
risgs. 4 numbes OF others were drunk,
but not SO glorious'y drunk. / was
treated with the greatest respect; even
the crowd ct the window, as soon as an
nounoed my intention of trying to vote,
parted ard gave me ample room. AS
soon aa they saw one decent woman try
ing 60 exercise citizenship, all bowling
ceased and every msn looked az much as
to say she shall be respected, and pro.
tected. have paid the taxes for men,
and have gone TO the window with them,
and have SO IN them deposit their ballot,
wi h tax receipt which had paid Ia ssthe
other hand and have had Republicans to
soy, vote, Mrs. Stuart, you have as much
right to vote as any nan here They
knew my vote would not help them, but
Justice will speak out from the hills aud
rocks. felt at CoYerdale's Y Roads
that every mans wife, daughter, mother
and sister, aye, even his mother in-law,
ought to be here, II they would hide ct
the appearance Of one decent woman
whilst they were under tho influence of
Bauchus. They would have voted with
their females upon their arms or at their
sides and gone home in time for dinner
ready for the afternoons work and not
leave the wife and little ones far into
the night, weeping because he comes not,
too we'll she knows the csuse.
sNow brazen tongued politicians, how
dare you soy she steps out of her sphere,
she loses dignity, she will lose the re-
spect Of the a.erner sex, home is her
place Where is home when she knows
or even dreams of the drunken father
Preachers may preaoh, women may weep
aud pray, Frances Willard may rise up
as goddess of temperance, truth and
light, but give women the ballot ii is
the bullet that levels without splitting
blood, equalizes and lesvens the whole
mass. Give her the ballot, she is tbs
sufferer. II she wants to use it let her
do it, the very cir she breathes is over.
CHARGED with libssty Like the mothers
of old, abe feels it tipgle even to her
finger ends. Thssa are negro women in
this state Who bought th,ir husbands and
hol 3 bill of sale today for them. Said
husband votes. but tine wife ia not allowed
to vote; but one says that Jim votes as
abe says and IL he didA't he had better
keep his heels going the other way.
Whst sha owns she controls, she washed
at the wash tue for these papers and Jim
kuop7a it ~