The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-04-18
Women at the Polls.

DENVER, CoLo., April st was
demonstrated at the municipal cleo
tions in Colorado towns last week
that the women will vote. Not only
will they vote, but they will see to it
that the more retiring sisters busy
with housework are waited upon on
election day and dragged to the polls.
With but few exceptions the women
walked to the polling places or we're
brought in carriages, and, stepping up
to the judges, they took the ballots,
marched quietly into the booths,
where with the scratch Of a pen the
ballot was quickly fixed ready for the
box. The law provides that the jud-
ges of election may assist the voters
who are unable to manage the intrica-
cies of the Australian ballot when
asked SO to do, but in very few in
stances were the judges asked to assist
tie women voters.
The campaign showed that the wo-
men take an active interest in the
prospective merits Of the candidates
put up for Offices. At one precinct
in Hi ghlands, residence sub burb to
Denver, the wife of one of the can
didates at the polls positively refused
to comply with the request Of her
husband to vote the straight ticket,
asserting her right by publicly de-
claring that she would not vote for
such men for any Office, and further
| adding, to the great amusement Of the
bystanders, that those two men were
not ft to hold any public Office.
One candidate was badly slaughter
ed in the Highlands because it had
been stated by poor woman that the
candidate, as an attorney, has defrau-
ded her out of quite sum of money
in q real estate deal. A young man
wearing Republican party badge was
working for one candidate not on the
regular ticket. A woman of the Re-
publican Party Suffrage League went
to the pills and gave that young man
tongue lashing that he will not soou
| forget. She told him to take off the
badge or work for the entire ticket.
and she warned him that the women
would not stand nonsense from any
man. Several women were out with
buggies calling for women voters at
their respective domiciles and labor
ing with them until they were com
PEELED to drop their work and go to
the polls. The favorite argument was
that that it was stern relentless
duty that must not be ignored.
Women stood about the booths ir
the Highlands and distributed bout.
onnieres to the male voters that
seemed more effective than the cam
psign cigars Of odorous nature. A
signs of rioting and i'll tempered dis
cussions we're absent at the city poll
ing places, but as Highlands is resi-
dence district strictly, the locality
cannot be considered hest Of the eff:
feet Of equal suffrage in cities. lr
Georgetown the women refused to &C
in the carriages Of the opponents tc
the Peoples party ticket, and gave il
out that they could walk to the polls
| Scratching tickets was a favorite di
version in all the towns.
There are several towns that fol
years have Intellectually fought the sa
| loon element but this year, with the
aid of the women, the saloons vii
be compelled to move out. Longmot
Evans, Rocky Ford, Delta, Julesburg
Berthoud and Littleton were some Of
the towns where prohibition won.
| Only one stirring incident is report
ed where the women caused q sensa
tion. In the town of De Beque, il
Western Colorado, the mayor made
himself obnoxious to the women voters
and later in the day Is Of them ap
peared at the polling place armed witt
horsewhips, but the mayor had judi
ciously disappeared, and he did mo-
become visible again until the polls
were closed.
Women we're out for Offices thi'
spring, and few Of them were elect
ed. In Highlands Miss Carrie Wes
was elected City Clerk by large ma
jority vote. Mrs. D. L. Kelly, o1
Berthoud, was elected Alderman.
Mrs. Helen Rogers, of Durango, City
| Clerk.-St. Louis Republic.