The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-17
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TIE WOMEN In POLITICS.


This is gong to be g great year for
women in politics. Only in one state will
the dear creatures be permitted TO vote for
president and vice-president, but there is
no law in any state against women talking
politics. Over here in Wyoming the ladies
OF legal age and possessing otner statu-
tory qualifications, can walk up to the
polls and vote for CLEVELAND and HAIR :
BISON like llttle men, and they will dol
too, if reports are true. 1t is said the Re-
publican managers are negotiating with
six ladies to go on the stump and whoop 1T
up from the middle of September until
election day. There are some good women
takers in Wyoming. OF course the Demo
Gratis Will not be outdone by the enemy IN
the matter of paying Difference to woman's
influence If the Republicans put half-a-
dozen ladies into the campaign the Demo-
Gratis may be expected to employ
at least nine the selections be :
made with proper care and with due re-
gard to physical beauty as well a. to brain
power aud cleverness of the tongue. Both
parties in Wyoming expect every woman
to do her duty on election day.
But not alone IN the only female suffrage
state will women take q hand or lend q
tongue in the coming great contest. Mrs.
LEASE, the Kansas orator who claims the
credit ana honor of retiring ingalls, from
the Senate, has enlisted for the war with
General WEAVER, and will deliver Peoples
party speeches in half the states of the
Union, closing the campaign with cy
clonic tour of Kansas, where bookings are
now being made for two or three addresses
day, Sundays excepted, during the last
two weeks of October and the first week
of November. WEAVER banks on Mrs.
LEASE more than he does on himself, and
he claims to be no SLOUGH when it comes to
tongue work.
The Republican national committee has
employed J. ELLEN FOSTER, the Iowa Re-
publican prohibitionist, aud opened head
quarters for her in New York, from which
city she will make sallies into the surround
ing states, the last three weeks of the
campaign being given up exclusively to
Iowa Mrs FOSTER is said to be q con-
vincing talker. Her special mission ia to
make prohibitionists believe they will help
their cause by voting the Republican
ticket. Her line of argument will be that
four years hence the Republican will be a
prohibition party, provided the temperance
voters will keep it in power. ANNA DICK
INsoN. will not take the stump for the Re-
publican party this year, for the reason
that the executive committee which en-
ployed her four years ago drove her out of
her mind by its refusal to pay her bill.
We have not heard that the Democrats
will put any ladies on the platform, but
they will rely on woman's influence all
the same. The women do the shopping
and pay the household bills. The women
know how much the MCKINLEY tax has
increased the cost of living, and they know
how much harder it is to keep the home
expenses within the income by reas on CT
the infamous measure named; hence their
influence, the influence of the wives and
mothers of the working men and of the
farmers, will be employed on the side of
the Democracy in this campaign.