Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-04-18
r,- WOMEN VOTING IN ILLINOIS. =
Results the First Time They Have Ever
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j. CHICAGO, April 1s-Schoo1 elections
took place throughout Illinois Saturday
and for the hrst time the women exercised
the right of suffrage. One Of the most in
teresting contests was that at Evanston, q
| suburb Of this city. The town is shead
center of woman suffragism, W. @. T. q,
4 ideas and that sort of thing and the ladies
who lead in such matters were on hand to
| zee that things went smoothly. One of
4 the first visitors to the polls was lady
| who brought fine Easter lily to be placed
on the table alongside thezballot box. 1t
was quite an exciting fight.
%" Varying Fortunes of the Battle.
| The candidates we're II. H.NC. Miller,
! George s. Lord, and Mrs Louise B. Stan
/ wood ON the "Men,ss ticket, ana MfS Ger
lrudE Singleton, Mrs. W, E. ctfford and,
! Mrs Isabella A. II. Prindle, oA the .nyofnl
enisTs Ticket r.hesafenss" ticket Fpoiisd
about $40 votes the, Aaseinsh 50 40 For
he frs hour the woTisn had things theif
owa way. 4 Then the Miller tieketaeokfa
| Jump, and then agaihas1fhe wonfsh> >sSrged
ahead, Butthe death bPow to the wUhan's
sicket was given when the, trains arrived
rhey ffssRs ~sre ths asd sna 6s waf ssy
work, and, lISe lh6rrid mia s'sthe heyiwal lkea
:, past.the rovsa Of appealffs ,Snmgn,t and
4 voted solidlyySfer H'sH. }Cl Mailer ana hisp'
I Colleagues. d " 81 FIi
lll' -'3'' They'keFe Not Naiuraiized.
Mrs. Clifford and heS forces rallied,
1 Out again went Ed O'Brien'-asId " lEfaSn
4 Eefevfe in carry-alls and lumber wagons.
But soon the awful news came back that
j mosfof the servant girls of Evanston were
l not naturaffze6 and woman's ticket sup
d2porters' last opel was gone. They regis
tered Vow THAT this defect should be
! i'emediedo and, gave {, up. the fight The
women took to the business hike Veterans
They had. no hesitation in. talking to their
friends, MAKE Or female, and, arguing the
case for their candidates. There was per-
feet opder at the polls, ait hpugh they do
4 say that a keg Of beer was on tap in easy
! walking distance. bio '.3 Iai.1'=' ''e1l
Other Defeats for the Fair Sex. s-ss,5
! And. the women met defeat at several
other cesalalthough at Marion they
won, while their candidate, mirabile dictui
was a-man, At DeKalc 800 women went
TO the polls, but they did not pull togeth-
er and the -tyrant man did, 1t was the
same way at Gilman. The women had
candidates of their own sex but they didn't
vote straight and the men carried the
day. Eighty w0men voted = At P4afio
|
At Defavan there WAS a straight issue, the
tickets being made up of the opposite
7 sexes. But the moDaychs got away with
|, all 1hespoiis: about $50 women voted
4, r4y71PIaces Where Women Won. i'!-'t
| At Petersburg 80 per- cent. of the voters
were women and they electedtheif can
didate-a man ind dorsed by the &c. Il u.
Only one woman voted at Shelb5ville but
in Ridge township the fair ones turned
! - = .
lrdidate., The-ehtire We. r. L! ticket was
elected at GarrolltonJ IL There was ONLY iSne
ticket at Summer; the ladies clscIsnsd TO
put one upI Much amusement wascaf-
| forded by the way some of4the womsr1
treated the question as TO the ,theiEage,
especially the married ones. Some of them
4 lans&ered Sharply: "what do you want to
know that for?" Women ~oti Victories at
j Watseka, Monmouth Ca4fere 500 of them
yotedl. Clint en-. Peoria and number Of
[ other places.sGUu9 nToJsaT sit 10 gniii
Divide on the Religious Question. E
.Ae' 9Danyille the, question, was, under
II stood I'd be opposition TO Roman
lfCatholicisrf1 in the schools. The women
T.. first had an snti-Horiian ticket in The feidii
, but the, cry yf"KnewtNe Nethir e' caused sheffs
!, to withdrawfit. Thenrthe fair voters divided
up, and the effect, of their hallots could
not be told, except that it .swelled the total
/ TO an, ,tihpreeedented size, At. Olney the
] election judges first refused to accept
; worneHis ballots, But finally rescsinded that
j :action5and took the votes of those who
, presented sfHdaVits thae9they we're voters
7 EiFoIHieaf5Peints.IJs iGW B {
A. NJ. c>Lbhg aIoiles has ahneusced shat
= chat he is not h Canriiiate for governor Ief
Illinois. wsE muIt pABiGgTo s,fGaT 81!
Il DemocratsIh county convention at Tus
cola, Ills. declined to1pass. .. nesofutioninS
/. aorslng Palmer r,l.isd,- sd7 T.i,.ucat .f;g
, La Sale county. Ills, went eoverwhelm,
Einsly for sFifer at the Republican spri-
, Enaries. =.
E The Christian county, Ills, Republicans
!, }instucted for Harrison and Fifer Demo
crafts of the same county gave Palmer q
< boost Union county Democrats went for
Palmer and Altgeldaj isopi @vrf -e--fs Il
Door county. Wis, Democrats instruct
l ed for Cleveland 1A-ftcd il,---E IL II.
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