DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-02-13
IN WOMAN'S BEHALF.
HOW WOMEN VOTE.


| Ht women hOltGS UTtDdftu lOE LllH
election with more intelligent care, and
they went to the polls in larger numbers
than ever before. Their vote made a
gain in numbers of at least thirty per
cent. The enthusiasm was Of a rational
sort-nOt manufactured by few hot
headed zcaIots. but the healthy out
growth of au earnest interest in affairs
and faith in the ballot. The women
were more successful than on previous
occasions in cIcCting the candidates Of
their choice: they went more generally
into the primaries, and their effect on
the election was distinctly stronger.
They fully sustained their reputation
for voting more uncompromisingly than
men on the right side of moral ques-
tions, and they made evident their
determination to compel the clcc-
tion of a better class Of men to
municipal Office. Given men Of equally
good character for opposing can
| didatcs, and the women of each party
will earnestly support the candidate of
their own party; but let the nominee Of
their own party be a man Of known i'm
moral life, and the nominee Of the Op-
posing party man Of clean record. and
the women flock to the support of the
| latter. regardless Of party fcalty, and
| nominations are made with respect to
| that fact by all parties. Whether the
women vote at every opportunity or not,
| the fact that they may vote has a SalU-
| tary effect on elections. The woman
| vote is held as u reserve power, and IS
well known 10 he Liable to come out and
upset the bcSt-Iaid plans Of men, when
said plans do not accord with the pre-
conceived notions Of the women voters
Of the degree Of morality of which a
man should he possessed who is to be
put into a place in which he may lay his
| hand upon the government of city in
which boys and girls are to get their
bringing up.
All this is not to say that women vot-
| Crs make no mistakes. nor yet that
every woman votes from the pureSt mo-
| tivcs: but it is TO say that the majority
of the women of the cities of Kansas
! have voted on the riTht side Of moral
| Questions. I'hoy have madc mlslaNcH
in mon and measures and rcnrntcd in
+ir,o ,o mako Martial amends at the next
o1no,inn hut thcv havc NOT been in the
wrong as often as they have been in the
rirl,t Soma women voted from irnoblo
,,ntivo. Lrt marc women voted with
,,i,,I, ,,,r,,o.o. had man whose
,,,,,, ,.,,, yr,nr y,,y nominated for
,,,a,or h,, ,hn rnu,blir,n Marty. Re
,,,1li.or ,.n,,or was onnosinr his c1rc-
| ti,r -, ,,,c,.,1 r,,,,nds bcnrhman
or Mr. Wrorm visitod hor, and said:
.yanr surnnrt c,,nns from vour
doro.h+cr Who j, = teacher, If
vnu don't slpnort Mr.. Wrong.
,ri11 u.o nv, iranoncp which Won
1.,n,,, +, lo nn,yorfr1 to ,rnvnnt vonr
Ianal,4o. fon, cocurinr hrr school for
nnn,l,or ro,r " Tbn small ouint woman
nasa onj y,id win rnnt1o dirnitv. and
,ia,,1,ia, r,rl,odo fnr,bor di.rnssion.
W s.vonr rarJidatc is yronr bv nature as
.a11 -. H., r,,,o I will not votc for
w.; r.,J ,,nrrirr cir Evorv hodv
,iI,,, 1.,,,,,. hor. t,ir,ry c,r,o out and
- !t",,, =; ~ olnan,nt n'~ +n odd thai +bo twica
l,,.o,,. | ,,nn n.os ,nt o1nctcd and the
Jn,,mTtnm ,v,,7 had hotter no,ition offered
,,a" ,,',"7 ~, ,ho othor hand = Iadv who
I,I,,.1,4 :, so,ndoIor. tbir,r for q