Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-23

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ject of female suffrage just how il works.
The woman watch the nominating con-
ventlons, aud if the Republicans put q
bad man on their ticket and the Demo-
Gratis good one, the Republican women
do not hesitate moment in scratching
off the bad and substituting the good
| 1t is just so with the Democrats. Hence
we nerrly always have q mixture of office
! holders. l have seen the effects of fe-
male suffrage. and instead of being a
| means of encouragement to fraud and
corruption, II tends greatly TO purify
| elections. -
Hen. NJ. c. Brown, United States At
torney for Wyoming Territory, says:
| fWoman suffrage in Wyoming has ao-
| comDlished much good and has harmed
no one
Hon. n. L. Andrews, speaker of the
house of representatives of Wyoming
| (DemocraD said, in 1879:
! 81 came to this Territory in the fall of
| 1871 with the strongest prejudice possible
against woman suffrage, and decidedly
| opposed to it in all its features. Yet, will
| ing TO be fair and candid on the subject
! l become a close obs srver of Its practical
| results. ] have for three successive ses-
| sions been houored by an election to the
| legislature Of the Territory and twice as
| speaker of the house of representatives
and my opportunities for seeing and
| judging of this matter have not been
| cIrcumscrbed; and | can now say that
| the more have seen OF it
| the less my objections have been
realized, and the more it has COM
mended itself to my judgment and good
| opinion. And now l frankly acknowl-
| edge that under ell my observation it
| has worked well, and has been produce
tive of much good in our territory, and
no evil that l have been able TO discern.
| The only wonder to me is why the states
of the Union have not adopted it long
ago. The women use the ballot with
more independence and discrimination
in regard to the qualifications of candi-
| dates than men do. If the ballot in the
hand of women compels political parties
to place their best men in nomination,
this, in and of itself, is sufficient reason
for sustaining woman suffrage.
Mrs. l.. w. Smith, superintendent of
schools for Carbon county. Wy, says:
''To vote does not require so much
time that it interfereS either with house,
hold duties or with other business. 4
woman is more apt TO work for the indi-
vidual than for party. IL candidate Is
not correct in character, the entire fem
mime vote is against him, irrespective OF
party. This fact renders it necessity
for each party to nominate good men, or
their defeat is a foregone conclusion.
The editor of the New York Observer is
opposed to woman suffrage. He wanted
some strong testimony against it, and
wrote to lady of his acquaintance in
Wyoming, the wife OF United States
Judge, and a leading member of the
Presbyterian church, asking her to write
an account of the practical workings of
woman suffrage for his paper. She re-
piled:
"I came to Wyoming three years ago
from Missouri, and brought with me
fully the usual amount of conservatism;
and regarded with peculiar suspicion
the idea of woman s entering the polit-
icnl arena My observations have ma
terially modified my views upon this sub
ject. The women of Wyoming, and
especially the better class, as highly
prize and es generally exercise the right
of suffrage as do the men. Almost every
lady here is not only reconcied to, but
highly gratified with the practical results
of woman suffrage. The only element
that would desire its repeal are the
vicious and corrupt, who fear its power,
and are restless under the restraint 1t
helps TO impose. The women are less
governed by party considerations than
men, and both political parties have
come 10 recognize the necessity of nomI-
mating their best men, or at least not
nominating bad men, if they desire to
succeed. -
Rev. DR.. b. f. Crazy, presiding elder
of the Methodist Episcopal churches of.
Northern Colorado and Wyoming, said:
1.-THE statement has been made and
widely circulated that at the late cleo
ton IN the territory of Wyoming mo
women voted except those of the baser
sort. am well acquainted in Wyo-
ming, having charge of the Methodist
churches of that territory, and [ know
from many conversations held with
women of the very highest character,
from statements made TO me by minis
tiers and by the highest officers OF the
territory, and from my own personal as
soclations with editors, lawyers, teachers
and business men, that ell such state
ments about the women of Wyoming are
utterly without foundation. The very
best ladies of this territory vote, and, as
they generally vote on the right side of
MI QuSoLIOuo. tuc ilCs tulb " tucit uSLll-
ment originate with men of the tbaser
sort, with defeated demagogues and
disappointed strikers and the meanest
kind of politicians, who hate the major
ity OF the women because of their pure
lives and independent ballots. -
Rev. J H .Burlison, pastor Of the First
Presbyterian church of Laramie City,
says:
81 think no one will cay that woman
suffrage has had any bad effect in our
territory. 1 have never heard of any
woman who considered the right of suf-
frage q severe or crushing burden. The
women seem to be glad of the chance TO
vote. They have suffered no loss of re-
spect or consideration, and they are
fully as intelligent aud Independent as
men in the exercise Of their right of suf-
frage.'
Rev. William A. Moore. pastor of the !
African NJ. +. Church of Cheyenne,
says:
"No unpleasantness is caused in fami- |
lies by women Is voting. SO far as know. |
They vote as intelligently and independ- !
emily as men, and they make just as
good wives, mothers, sisters and daugh- |
tiers as before.
Rev. w. G. Harvey, pastor of the |
First Baptist church of Laramie, says:
81 came to this city prejudiced against |
woman suffrage, but have been thor