Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-27
WOMEN WILL VOTE.
They Will Ballot for University
Trustees, Anyway.
AN APPEAL FROM THE W. G. T. q.

Right OF Female Suffrage will be At
tempted-A Circular Sent Out in Haste
Bearing on the Subject - The Instruc-
lions.
The opinion advanced by Capt. ]. NJ.
Adair of the secretary OF states ofdce
at Springfield holding that under the
laws of Illinois women will not be per-
mitted to vote for university trustees at
he approaching election. has aroused the
W. G. T. U. of the state which will in
eist upon the right of female suffrage
in balloting for the officers named. TO
that end a circular has been issued by a
committee of the Illinois w. CT q. com
posed of Ada H. Kepley and Mrs Ella
M. Orr, with instructions to send it to
every voting precinct in the state, and
CODY has been submitted to the ARGUS
with the request that it be published. 1t
begins as follows:
To the Women Electors of Illinois.
SISTERS :-The newness of the law al
lowing women to vote for public school
GERS and tho fact that women are now
demanding to be registered in order to
vote for trustees of the State University
at Champaign, Nov Sth, has caused the
expression of various opinions favorable
and adverse to our claim TO vote at that
election. In Chicago Lawrence +.
BOYLE, attorney OF the Cook county com
missioners, and who took the case against
the women of Cook county in the matter
of voting for county superintendent OF
schools up to the supreme court, has 49,
sued an opinion favorable, and the COOK
county commissioners have ordered all
clerks and JUDGES of election to register
the women, prepare separate ballot boxes
for them, and receive their ballots. They
will also furnish the Cook county women
with tickets. Winnebsgo county will do
the same and Bingham county expects
to do likewise I qnote tor your instruc-
ton the folio wing. taken from a written
opinion on the subject 10y Henry B. Keep
lev. lawyer of Eff1ngham, Ill:
Under the provisions of the act OF 1891
emitting women to vote for officers OF
schools. women have a right to vote for
trustees of tie University OF Illinois at
the ensuing November elections.
The vote for said officers at said cleo
tons comes under and within the pro.
known as the Australian ballot law.
The first section of the act excerpts
| from the provisions thereof, only. ''elec-
| tons for trustees of schools. school direc'
| tors, members of boards of education
and officers of road districts not under
| township organic t Z
The election of trustees of The Univers
| itv Of Illinois not being excepted from
| the provisions of the Australian ballo
law. but comes within its provisions.
Furthermore. the law providing for thu
election of the said trustees provides tina
| said election shall be governed il
every particular by the laws of this stat
| governing general election Revised
Statute, 1891, page 1870, sec. 3.
1t is the duty of the county clerks o
the respective counties of this state 4
provide and furnish separate ballots 10
women voters at such cleo
ton; which ballots should b
in accordance with the provisions o
the Australian ballot act, and shout
contain the name Of no other person tha
those to be voted for. for trustees of III
University of Illinois
Section is of the Australian ballot Law
provides that the county clerks shall fur
nish ballots for all voters at such cleo
ton,
This applies to ballots to be cast b
women as well as TO ballots to be cast b
men.
Section 2 of the act of 1891, entitlip
women TO vote for school officers. pro
vides that the ballot to be cast by wome
| voters at such election, shall not contal
the name of any other person to be vote
for except such school officers.
Therefore, to carry into eli ;ct the pro
$50 Lon 70
lating to the matter, the voting must b
under the provisions of the AUSTRALIA
ballot law, and the county clerks mus
proyide and furnish ballots for men con
| tanning the names of all persons to
| voted for. and ballots for women con
tanning only the names Of the persons t
be voted for for trustees of the Universit
of Illinois.
| Instructions to Registration.
Then follows the form OF the ticket TO
university trustees of the four parties
democratic, republican, prohibition an
| peoples, and holding that the su
nreme court of the state having failed t
pass on the question of woman suffrag
vet. the law is not established as invalid
1t urges the appointment of committee
| to call on the county clerks and ask fo
the provision of tickets for universit
trustees, and to provide ballot boxes flo
the same. and then the following as t
registration;
The registration books are now hang
ing at each poll ng or voting place i
YOUR counties and towns. Go and plaC
YOUR names thereon, and that of yor
women friends. Remember to use you
own baptismsl names. not your hui