St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-11

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w. level that they
W can see for GER
tainty she has no wings and, no ap-
proach to a halo about her head. The
objection the majority OF women raise
to going to the polls to vote is perfectly
natural and quite consistent with the
training theV have received for genera
tons and with their experience. The
workingwoman who said she would
not mind voting if they would call at
her house with basket for. the ballot.
only gave crude expression to the views
of all other anti-wOman'S Sutfragists.
The popular notion has been, and still
is. that woman, given the franchise,
will make one trip to the polls and then
go down with dull. sickening thud''
into degeneracy forever. When it was
given out that 5000 women had regis
tered in Minneapolis, st. Paul publicly
boosted of the superior modesty and
virtue of our women, and While Mime
apolis made a desperate effort to
talk proudly about the superior pro-
erosion of theirs, there were evidences
of nervousness in all their braggardism
which betrayed secret fear of the
final issue. If you could get Minnea-
p0litan alone, his glief occasioned by
the situation would lead him to forget
the necessary lack of sympathy of st.
Paul ear, and in perfect abandonment
he would pronounce the whole 5000
"cranks," and ask with concern your
honest opinion Oh what the world IS
coming to; and when, with brutal in
difference to his anxiety, you would
say that as far as Minneapolis goes,
the outlook is dark. but that
st. PaulS future is assured
by the conservatism OF its women, a
Brigham Young expression would steal
into his face and you knew he was
yearning to come over here and marry
every anti-wOman Suffragist in the city.
He would tell you with CONSERVATION
in his voice that Woman'S political
mass meeting was called there and ac-
tually brought out 500 women, who
were ready 10 do anything but attend
to their own affairs for the good Of their
country, and in pure spite against the
insurmOuntable, would say something
mean about the top coat DR.. Ripley
wears, or about Florence Huntley's
dependence on her relation by mar
riage to the Spookendyke papers for
her present exalted position.
lit is no use, Henry said l Monday
night at the supper table, Il can't march
with the times in st. Paul, SO shall go
to Minneapolis tomorrow and catch the
step over there. | think I'll vote a
straight Democratic ticket"
Vote your grandmother replied
Henry irreveerntly. "Do you suppose a
man can vote all over the United States
just because lie happens to know the
Star Spangled Banner and believes in
the American eagle? You can't vote in
Minneapolis"
"Why not, pray? guess am just as
good as any Minneapolis woman, if l
am Democrat
Henry's pain oyer my ignorance-@if a
man ever believes in woman'S .perfec-
tiOn in any one point, it is the perfec-
ton of her ignorance-made him red in
the face and he gurgied forth the intel
ligence that | could not live in one city
and vote in another.
Il suppose, however, can go over
there to watch the other animals per-
form?n No objection being raised to
this, Tuesday morning l set my
conservative foot upon radical Min
neapolis mud, feeling like a
athwart the radiance of modern civil
zation. Utterly ignorant of the topog-
raphy of the town, | started out from
the depot, expecting pillar of light to
go before me and lead me straight to
the different polls where the bewilder-
ing spectacle of feminine progression
made manifest, was to be beheld. But
two hours tramp soon robbed me of
my faith in the superiority of Mime
apOliS women over those of st. Paul,
even in the matter of progression. Zig
tagging up NicOllet avenue, in and out
of the different stores where women are
employed, ! discovered that the noble
5000 had small, if any, representation
among the business women. Indeed, in
numerous instances, women were not
aware that it was election day
until Ia especial from st. Paul
brought the intelligence to them, and
when would ask them where they in
tended voting, in their fresh, charming.
Minneapolis womanly way, they would
want to know what l was talking
about and. filled with the notion that |
was insulting them, would bid me
"Amok-a-hai. Finally, joining gang
OF small boys who were travelling pa
triotically in the wake of a brass band,
l was lead to polling place, where
with gracious lack of discrimination !
accepted Democratic, Prohibition and
Republican tickets. Nothing prevented
mild intervention of man with an
account book, a very red nose andsa
Prohibition badge. He delicately
limited that not even the charm of
rusticity, which had acquired
with the first breath l drew OF
Minneapolis air. entitled me to
vote the whole pack and
when l signified my willingness to
come down to pair-Democratic and
Prohibition-he still gently but firmly
told me | could only play one, where
upon / was sorely perpleXed by three
different and distinct individuals assur-
ing ME the ticket he had given me was
the one. Not wishing to get myself dis
liked by display OF partially for any
party, shut my eyes and drew Demo-
cratic. method of determining ones
political principles which every by
Stander witnessed with interest and in
tense admiration of the sweet, candid
simplicity of my sex. Just why my
childish admission of the fact that
live in st. Paul should have anything
to do with my voting at least once in
Minneapolis, it required the com
bined efforts of six men to
explain to ne, and when | reluctant
ly called off my ambition and turned tC
depart, be it said to the credit of the
colossal estimate men have OF women's
intelligence, not man about the place
smiled other than indulgently upon my
stupidity, and more than one gave evil
Gence OF his belief that it must be real
nice woman who was so densely ignor-
ant of political machinery.
Pad ne IT, iS for men TO he alone If is
infinitely worse for women, and it was
with great JOY l encountered al
the next polling place a tender
young thing Of fifty who had been
towed out by herr husband to vote
Checking the Impulse suggested by
the atmos phcre of the polls to go up t.
her, slap her on the, shoulder and say
"Well, old girl, glad to see you out:
how're you voting today" l APP
preached her with caution, and with ar
apclogetic ~ beg your pardon" in