The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-11-29
a,,, I'VE on woman Suffrage.

The closing speech was made by Elias
Kilgore, a retired stage-driyer. He also
favored the bill and spoke as follows:
Mr.. Speaker-The bill that's before us,
it strikes me, is where the roads fork. One
is the old Guv'ment road that has been
the style for a good while, the other is the
cut off. It's a new road, but with a little
work on it, 1 reckon it's going to be the
best road. You men that opposes the bill
has got ezzication-some of you-some OF
YOU amt. You that has got it, got it at
your mothers knee. Second, The more
godlike we get, gentlemen, the more
rights we will give the m The
closter you get to the cannibals the more
apt a women is to do the chores and get
choked for her opinions. | don't say that
a woman has got to vote because she has
the right, no more than our local vigilance
committee has got to hang the member
from Sweetwater County because it has a
right to, but it is a good wholesome
brake ON society in case you bust a hold
back or tear off a harness strap when you
are on a steep grade. The member from
Sweetwater says we ort to r~estrick the
vote privilege instid of charging of it. He
goes on to state that too many folks is al
ready Untitled to vote. That may be- Too
many maudlin drunkards that thinks with
a fungus growth and reasons with a little
fatty degeneration which they calls brains
till they run agin an autopsy, too many
folks with no voting qualification but talk
and trowsiz, is allowed to vote, not only
at the polls, but to even represent a big
and beautiful county like Sweetwater in
the Legislature.
So we are to restrick the vote, | admit,
in that direction and enlarge it in the di-
rection of decency and sense. Mr.. Speaker,
men is too much stuck on themselves.
Becuz they was made first, they seem to
be checked up too high. The facts is that
God made the muskeeter and bed-bug be-
fore he made man. He also made the
mud-turtle, the jackass and the babboon.
When lie had all the experience lie wanted
in creating, He made man. Then He
made woman. He done a good job. She
why was it? 1t was Monday. She had a
picked up dinner. Adam wanted some
thing to finish off with. Eve suggested a
cottage pudding.
Proud mar without nothing but an ap-
petite and side whiskers, lay out to own
the earth because Eve overdrawed her ac-
count in order to please him. AND now
because man claims he was created first
and did not sin To amount to anything, he
thinks that he has got the brains of the
civilized world and practically owns the
town.
1 talk without prejudice Mr.. Speaker be-
cause l have no wife. l don't expect to
have my. | have had one. She is in
Heaven now. She belonged there before l
married her, but for some reason that
can't find out, she was throwed in my way
for a few years and that recollection puts
a lump into my throat yet as l stand here.
| improved on her because she had been
taught to obey her husband no matter how
much of dam phoolh lie might be. That was
Laura's idea Of Christianity. She is dead
now and that is where Laura has the bulge
on me. l drive stage and think. God
help the Teller that has to think when he's
got nuthin' to think Of but an angel in the
sky that he amt got no claim on.
I've been held up foul times and l drove
right along past the road agents. Drove
kind of slow, hoping that they'd shoot but
they seemed kind of ratified and so waited
for the next stage.
It's id funny to me that women who
suffer most in order that man may come
into the world, the one Mr.. Speaker, that
is first to find and last to forsakc him,
first to hush the cry of a baby Saviour in a
Jim Crow livery stable in Bethlehem, and
last to leave the cross, first at the sepulchre
and last to donbt the Lord, should be in
terested with the souls and bodies of gen.
erations. and yet not know enough to vote"
(Applause.)
] give the above simply to SHOW the
| style Of rhetoric in those days.
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