The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-04-29

plainly inlimntos that young women
nFa apt to liavO their heads turned with
ilaltory, and thereby lose aIght OF tho
responsibility that should attach to
their votes, and hence alu would never
advise tho election Of u young woman
10 tho legislature.
ONE THING GAINED.
Botweon you and mo, Mr.. Editor, |
really bolievo that this doubt OF Mrs.
Clock Is tho doubt Of u great many
vo,orJ, male aud iomalc, In this com.
monwcalth. | got an atmospheric i'm.
passion oil this sort from what | hear
people generally drop Oh tho subject.
Now, however, that women havo votes
nobody is going TO mako themselves
conspicuous rs opponenta oil tho policy
Of elsctlng thom TO oilicc, but all tho
samo tho undortono Of conversation 10
not favorable to tho experiment, And
this Is US truc among women rs among
mon. Mrs. Clock, tho %o1.momber, has
yoicod tho opinion Of 4 great many
thoughtful people. While ,hlu Ia tho
case, however, all political partios will
bid for women votes by putting women
candidates On their tickets, Just rs thcy
did hero this spring NJ tho municipal
election. and the women will appear on
tho platform as orators ut tho public
meetings, and also rs canva,sers for
yotos by house to house visitations.
Just how far all this proceeding will
commend itself to tho final judgment Of
tho boit people rcmainu to be seen. Tho
experiment is too now to DO definitely
pronounced upon as yot. There are no
fruits whereby tho troe may DO certainly
judged. At tho state house 1t was
claimed that the closing scenes OF tho
sesaion were vastly improved al com.
pared With former endings. There wore
no wild orgies, and no fumes OF whisky
and tobacco going up from the seats, "a
on formor occasions. At least that much
was gained, both for the chambers
proper and also for the committee
rooms. In these latter places tho.c arc
many female clerks employed.
Tho general sphere OF womau seems
10 be larger out hero in tho far wcat
than with US In tho east. Here in Den.
yer 1t Is decidedly larger than in auy
city known to me in the country. Thoy
havo clubs upon clubs here, political,
literary and social, and the best womou
lead in their mission work in those 70.
spoctive fields. Some OF the papers
submitted At these associated meetings
are excellent, aud l have soon one or
two Of them tina. were gems OF thought
fulness and practical ~utilitariauism. OF
course only Il small part OF tho proceed
ings and doinCs OF these organizations
gets into the print, aud it Is TO this
small part, therefore, that | am refer
ring. although l have had tho pleasure
Of seeing some reports not intended for
the public aye. Whether 1t 10 the
greater freedom generally. for both men
and women, that prevails in the ives.
that leads women to thus assert them-
selves rs an influential part Of the body
polite, the body social and tho body lit
erary, ! know not, but l incline 10 tho
opinion that it is.
WAR on BICYCLES.
There arc said to be no loss than nine
thousand bicycles in use in Denver. To
such an extent does the use OF them by
both sexes prevail that the stree. car
companies were said to be back OF a
movement TO tax them out OF common
use az a means OF increasing their own
receipts. This was one OF several alle-
cations aud grievances urged against
tho "trHmways" In tho late municipal
cam paign. The water company and
tho tramway combine were proclaimed
as a gigantic octopus aud hydra-headcd
monster at a great reform meeting held
in the Coliseum iu,t prior to tho cleo.
ton. There was 4 Joan OF Arc present
on that occasion who joined in so pro-
claiming thcm, but nevertheless the
majority OF her sisters did not so vote
on election day. Women arc not a unit
in their way oil thinking and voting
in this town any more than are
the men. As a rule they vote
the same way as do their husbands,
son and brothers. In Washington
Territory. whero used to vote at
all elections, the political result is said
to have been tho salnc as before they
voted and after they ceased voting.
When tho territory became 4 state TO-
male suffrage was left nut OF the consti-
tuition and women ceased voting, which
fact suggests the query whether the
Same result will follow here sooner or
later. AS President Cleveland would
express it, will female suffrage fail into
"inocuous d~esuetudo?" | will assume
the contingencies OF the future go far
aa to express the opinion that It will
not q. loast DO until after tho silver
question has been definitely disposed
Of. The mon will sec to that, for they
intend that Colorado shall speak in
thunder tones on the silver question
next year. and tho year after, aud dur
Ing all tho years that may BIO necessary
10 keep up tho agitation.
THE SILVER QUESTION.
This reference 10 tho silver question
belongs to tho consideration OF the
theme on which I started out in this
letter. 10 ignore it in Colorado corros.
pondence would indeed DO to play Ham.
let with Hamlet left out Silver is tho
burden Of conversation out here. |
will not say that it burdens tho ears Of
the stranger, although I..uspoct some.
times that it must, 0 especially il no is q
gold bug" fresh from the 'east. Silver
ia tho modern "niggor" question in
American politics. aud Colorado is tho
South Carolina OF tho so-callod silver
states. Ex-Governor Waite mas essayed
to DO tho John c. Calhoun OF this now
~"nigger" issue, and Of this stnte, and has
moi even yot ceased his %essaying despite
his downfall ut tho election Of ~. Itis
groatidea is TO be not only for FREQ silver
but for trco %greenbacks as well. lilo told