Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-08-24
Three Views of 1t.


II remember said an old railroad man yester-
day, he sat in crimson velvet easy chair in the
Boomerang office, and rested his feet on the
Furnished fender, chow in SO, when | was in the
Wyoming Legislature, the woman suffrage bill
came up for action, and was referred to commit
tee of three | was selected as one, and an old
miner and cattle-m man made up the balance. Ii
was an act to grant to the women of Wyoming
Territory the right of suffrage and to hold office.
1t was, of course, a new deal, and we didn't know
exactly what the effect would be on the Territory
AS chairman of the committee, [ said to the other
two members, when we had tackled the measure:
'Gentemen this is pretty important move. 1t
is kind of wild train on single track, and
we've got to keep our eye peeled or well get in the
ditch. It's a new conductor making his first rum
He don't know the stations hardly, and he feels
as if there was spotter on every coach besides
Female suffrage changes the management, and it
may put the whole outfit in the hands of receiver
in year. We can't tell when Wyoming Terri
tory will be side-tracked, with lot of female con-
ductors running the tran and female master
mechanic, and female division superintendent, and
a lot of giddy girls at the brakes. tell you, we
want to consider this thing pretty thoroughly. Of
course we get our time check when the session
closes, and we don't care much but if Wyoming
gets hot-boX hereafter, or telescopes some other
Territory folks will point us out and say there's
where the difficulty is. We sent choice aggrega-
ton of railroad men, and miners, and cattlemen
down here to Cheyenne thinking we had a carload
of statesmen to work up this thing for us; and
here we are without any law or any gospel in the
whole domain. Pm in favor of the move, and if
the rest of you couple on with me- we'll hand
in our report, and get our orders
'The stockman didn't have much to say. He
just said: Mr.. Chairman, don't talk very much.
I'm poorly calculated to paralyze the throng with
native eloquence. | tell you, talk is inexpensive,
anyhow. agree with the chair that we want to
be famili IT with the range before we 60 wild like
lot of Texas cattle just off the trail, travelling
one hundred miles day and filing ourselves up
with poison weed and other peculiar vegetables.
We want to consider what we're about, and act
with some judgment. When we turn this may
erick over to the Governor to be branded, we want
to know that we are corraling the correct animal
You can't lariat broncho mule with clothes line
sometimes, and after we've run this bill in and got
it in the shute, we might want to pay four or five
good men to help us let 60. However, | shall
vote for it, and take chances on the roundup
Passing bill is like buying brand on the range
anyhow. You may tally ahead and you may get
everlastngly left with little withered bunch of
Texas frames that there is no more hope of fatting
than there would be of fatting a velocipede.
"The member from the mining district said: Mr.
Chairman, don't know what kind of fist the
women will make of politics. but I'm prepared to in
vest with the surface Indications 1t may be a true
fssure move and it may be doggon slide. We
can't tell Cill we 60 down on it. All we can do is
to prospect around and see that we comply with
the United States law and the law of the district
about locations. Then two more years will show
whether we've got mineral in place or not. If it