Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Practical Workings OF the System in
Wyoming-Grow ing in Popularity.
Testimonials from Well Known Public Men.
Every Governor for Eighteen Years In
Favor of the Present Law.
Bosros, Mass, Sept. Is, 1890.

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facts, and that your readers may not be
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| ping, enclose you the fncts about Wyo-
ming, attested to by well known public
men. The case in Kansas is the same
Women vote there in increasing num-
bers, as fects abundantlv show. l do
not have them at hand. but If you will
kindly use the true facts sent herewith
about Wyoming, that your readers ma
| not be misinformed, you will much
oblige, Lucy STONE,
| Chairman Executive Committee of the
Suffrage Assoc alton.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN WYOMING.
In deciding whether the practical
| effects OF unv measure will be good or
bad. an ounce of experiment is worth n
ton of theory. In Wyoming full suffrage
was granted 10 women in 1869. Every
governor OF Wyoming for tn last
eighteen years has testified strongly to
| lite good results. Governors OF territories
are appointed by the president, not
elected by the people. They are not de-
! pendent on the women's votes, nnd
hence. their testimony is Impartial.
Governor Campbell was in office when
the woman suffrage law was passed. TWO
years later he sal in his message to the
| territorial legislature:
There is upon our statute book AN
net granting TO the women of Wyoming
territory the right of suffrage, which
has now been in force two yeurs. 1t Is
simple justice TO say that the women ell
tpring, for the frs; time In the history OF
the country, upon these new nud untriec
duties, have conducted themselves in
every respect with as much tact, sound
judgment and good sense. rs men.
Two years after that he said in his mes
sage:
1.-The experiment of granting to women
q voice in the government has now been
tried for four years. l have heretofore
taken occasion to express my views IN
regard 10 the wisdom and justice OF this
measure, aud my conviction that lis
adoption has been attended only by good
results. Two years more of observation
of the practical working of the system
have only served 10 deepen my ronvIo-
ton that what we, in this territory, have
done, has been well done; and that our
system of impartial suffrage Is en- un-
quail ed success
Governor Thayer, who succeeded
Campbell, said in his message:
'Women suff uge has now been in
practical operation IN our territory for
six years, and has, during the time, III
creased In popularity aud in the con-
fidence of the people. In my judgment,
its results have been beneficial and its
influence favorable to the lest interests
OF the community.
Governor Hoyt, who succeeded Thayer,
said in his message in 1882:
elsewhere, directors persist in call
ing this honorable statute of ours IAN ex-
pertinent We know it Is not. Under
il we have better laws, better officers,
better institutions, better morals, and
higher socIul condition in general, than
could other wise exist. Not one of the
predicted evils, such as loss of native
delicucy and disturbance of home rela-
tions, has followed in its train.'
Governor Hale, who succeeded Hoyt,
expressed himself repeatedly to the same
effect.
Gov. Warren, who succeed Hale, said
IN a letter to Horace G. Wadlin, Esq, of
the Massachusetts house of representa-
tives in 1885:
sour women consider much more
carefully than our men the character of
candidates, and both political parties
have found themselves obliged TO nomi-
mite their best men in order to obtain the
support of the women. AS q business
man, as a city, county and territorial
officer, and now as governor of Wyoming
territory Il have seen much of the work.
ines OF woman suffrage, but 1 have yet
to hear of the first case OF domestic dis
nf nt,r
nearly all vote aud since in Wyoming, as
elsewhere, the majority of women are
good and not bad, the result is good and
not evil
Hon. John W. Kingmen. for four
years Judge OF the United states SUI
preme court of Wyoming, says:
''Woman suffrage was inaugurnted in
1869 without much discussion. aud with
out any general movement of men or
women in its favor. At that time few
women voted. At each election since,
they have voted in larger numbers, and
now nearly all 90 to the polls. Our
women do not attend the caucuses in any
considerable numbers. but they generally
take an interest in the selection of candI-
dates, and it is very common now, in
considering the availability of an aspi-
ran: for office, to ask, How does he
stand with the ladies?' Frequently the
men set aside certain applicants for Office
because their characters would not stand
the criticism OF women. The women
manifest great deal of independence in
their preference for candidates, and
have frequently defeated bad nomiDa-
tons. Oui best and most cultivated
women vote, and vote understandingly
and independently, and they cannot be
bought with whiskpy, or blinded by
purity prejudice. They are making
themselves felt at this polls, as they do
everywhere else in society, by quiet
but effectual discoutenancing of the bad
and helping hand for the good and the
true. We have had no trouble from the
presence OF bad women at the polls. 1t
has been SAID that the delicate aud cult
ured women would shrink away. and the
bold aud Iudeltcate come to the front in
public affairs. This we feared; but
nothing of the kind has happened. I do
not believe that Suffrage causes women
to neglect their domestic affairs. Ger
tainly, such has not been the case 10
wyoming, aud I never heard man
complain that his wife WAS less interested
in domestic economy because she had the
right to vote and took an interest in
making the community respectable. The
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