Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-11-27

any too enthusiastic admirer wants to
Mace her on a pedestal and offer up
incense. why, it's nothing" she ex.
claims. "Any one could have done 1t II
they had the right. All l ala was 70
yet on the car at the Union depot, ana
then she tells how she did it.
Miss Boyd is far from being the con-
ventional newspaper beauty. She Is
decidedly pretty, with that style OF
beanty which reminds the college lad
of his pet sister back home. Somewhat
petite. with big blue eyes, fair hair,
and a fresh and rosy complexion.
And Miss Boyd just turned twenty
one is the maiden who rode ITO miles
and return TO cast her maiden vote.
She has brothers at her home in Chey-
enne. Wv, and she has grown up
among them-a brothers. sister shar-
ing their joys and hopes and ambitions
She is a student now out at the univer-
sity.
mot a Bit" says Miss Boyd, opening
her big blue eyes very wide, OF course
IL doesn't seem strange TO me to have
gone to Cheyenne 10 vote. feel about
H. lust as fancy my brothers felt
Women have been voting in Wyoming
for the past twenty years, so have
grown up in the midst OF it and 1t does
not seem any different, l fancy, TO me
than IL would 20 man.
The Central Committee wrote to my
father and called his attention to my
having the right Of suffrage by virtue OF
my being 81 years, and they wanted me
to come up and vote.
"Of course have thought OF the mat
ter for some years, and, yes, longed for
the time to come when 1 could vote.
~ scarcely thought Of the matter
on nv way up. l took the night train,
slept nearly all the way, and when l
reached home and the time came around
l went down to the polls with my father
/ and voted. We have the Australian
ballot system there and all the attend
ant secrecy, so l need not have had my
father go with me, but l preferred 1t,
and he went.
GLOW did I cast my first vote? Why,
| for Harrison. OF course! 1 just put a
| cross under the insignia OF the party
and dropped the ticket in the ballot
| box"
"Was there any special significance
| attached to your particular vote that
the committee sent for you?" one OF the
| aforesaid admirers asked her.
"No. indeed. can explain that very
easily by telling you that there is
large Catholic element in Cheyenne
which blended with the Democratic
vote, and we were very anxious to beat
them, and that is why they wanted
every available vote"
"And do you feel now that your ef-
/ forts In the interests Of better govern
ment were wasted by the loss OF the
election?"
"Ipdeed, I do not, for such is not the
case. True, we lost the national cleo
tion. but we carried our county and also
| got the Harrison electors, and so l do
feel that my vote counted and that
neither the time nor money were thrown
away"
THERE WAS ANOTHER MOTIVE.
,'You are a born Republican, then?"
Eyes, indeed, born Republican with
a variety of Prohibitionists mixed with
/ it,"
But" continued Miss Boyd with the
/ tender touch of womanhood, "you must
remember that in addition to the politi-
cfl motives which took me 80 far to
vote there were others just as strong,
and maybe stronger"
Now, they we're"
Eyes, I was to see my mother and
father and brothers, and the combined
temptation was too strong for any ordi-
nary woman to resist, and so l cast my
maiden vote with, perhaps, more pleas
ure, than most girls have done, even in
Wyoming, where women love politics"