The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-05-22
WHERE WOMEN VOTE.

WHERE WOMEN VOTE.
| A List of the Counties That Have Female
Suffrage.
The countries of the world where
women already have some suffrage
have an area Of over is, 600, 600 square
miles and their population is over $50,
900, 900.
In Great Britain women vote for all
| elective officers except members of
| parliament.
In France the women teachers elect
women members ON all boards of edu-
cation.
In Sweden women vote for all elec-
tive officers except representatives
also, indirectly for members of the
house of lords.
In Norway they have school suff,
rage.
In Ireland the women vote for the
harbor boards, poor law guardians,
and in Belfast for municipal officers.
In Russia women householders vote
for all elective officers and on all local
matters.
In Finland they vote for all elective
| officers.
In Austria-Hungary they vote, by
proxy, for all elective officers.
In Croatia and Dalmatia they have
the privilege of Going so in local elec-
tons in person.
In Italy women vote for members of
| parliament.
In the Madras presidency and The
Bombay presidency (Hindostan the
women exercise the right of suffrage
in all municipalities.
In all countries of Russian Asia they
| can do whatever Russian colony set
ties. The Russians are colonizing the
whole of their vast Asian possessions
and carrying with them everywhere
the mir, or self-governing village.
wherein women who are heads of
households are permitted to vote.
Women have municipal suffrage IN
Cape Colony, which rules 10000
square miles.
Municipal woman suffrage rules in
New leland, and, I think, at paclia-
mentc,ry elections.
Iceland, in the North Atlantic, the
Isle Of Man between England and
Ireland and Pitcairn Island in the
South Pacific, have full woman suf-
f,age.
In the Dominion of Canada women
have municipal suffrage in every pro-
vince and also in Northwest terrific
ries. In Ontario they vote for all
elective officers, except in the election
Of members in the legislature and par
lament
In the United States 2S States and
territories have. given women some
form of suffrage.
School suffrage in various degrees is
granted to women in Arizona, Colo
rado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho,
Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, MasSa-
chusetts, Michigan. Minnesota, Ne
braska, New Hampshire, New Jersey:
New York, North Dakota, Texas, Yer
mont and Wisconsin.
In Arkansas and Missouri women
vote, by petition, on liquor license IN
many cases.
In Delaware suffrage is exercised by
women in several municipals.
In Kansas they have equal suffrage
with men at all municipal elections.
About 80, 900 women voted IN 1890.
In Montana they vote on all local
taxation.
In New York they can and do vote
at school elections. The question OF
the constitutionality of the law is still
undecided. They vote also in many
places in the State on local improve
ment, such as gas and electric
street lighting, paving, sewerage and
municipal bonds.
In Utah women voted until dlsfran-
chised by the Edmunds law, when
they promptly organized to demand
its repeal.
In Pennsylvania a law was passed
in 1889, under which women vote on
local improvements by signing or re-
fusing to sign petitions therefor.
In Wyoming women have voted on
the same terms with men since 1870.
The convention OF 1889 to form State
constitution unanimously inserted
provision securing them full suffrage.
This constitution was ratified by the
voters at a special election by about
three -fourths majority. Congress re.
fused to require the disfranchisenent
of women and admitted the State July
10, 1890.
And let it not be forgotten that in
the senate CT the United States, Febru-
ary 7, 1889. a select committee report
ed in favor of amending the Federal
constitution so as to forbid States to
make sex a cause of disfrancbisement.
Congress adjourned however, on
March 4, following without reaching
the subject.
Committed Suicide.
LEXINGTON, Mo-, May 17-Ex-May-
or Ben Russell, of this city, commit.
ted suicide today by shooting himself
through the he'd Dependency over
financial troubles and failure to get
business was the cause. He was the