The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-08

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orderly one in the United States. A
presidential election, even with the
Australian ballot system, usually sa-
vors strongly of commotion and mis-
guided enthusiasm. and interested as
Utah was in the outcome of the cam
paign, the quiet which refgned seemed
highly commendable. But although il
was the mayor who closed the doors Of
the saloons, and by the way, twas said
throughout town that the "A hours
edict came as a rhunderbolt, and ere
ated all the havoc OF one among local
liquor dealers-it would seem TO me
THAT the prevalent peace was largely
due to that much disputed element IL
politlcs-the new woman, Not the new
woman OF Punch or Puck-she does not
exist far beyond the boundaries OF New
York and Massachusetts. but the gen
uine, wholesouled, broad minded worrl-
an who is, in her entirety of perfection
more often the product OF the west
tnan OF the east.
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In speaking TO one of them, a typical
grand old woman" the other day, /
made the remark that it seemed so
natural 10 ind women here thoroughly
eInancipated. Well" said she, you
that we live in an atmosphere of grand
euf, which inspires souls to loftiness,
and such inspiration exists it must
nring absolute freedom with it sooner
or later" But the freedom is also OF
distinctly western kind; there is none
OF the arrogance of newness about ii
which characterizes the realm of new
women, so frequently censured. Bos-
ION women may be the esSenee of Gull
fIfrR and TCiII1Hl,oa1t
ieinininity the personification of
naughty, well bred grace, but they
lack and viii forever lack. in their mar
row satisfaction the freedom of
soul which stamps a western woman
and gives her power over a world of
men and other women. In one of the
eastern states where the question of
outrage rs still in its infancy, the ad-
NocSteS or the movement are to a great
extent of a masculine type, dictative
ana self-assertive, which invariably re-
peis womanly little body whose love
81 the I'm de steele has not carried her
Tar out into the world AS a eonse-
Quence, the cause there is advancine
slowly; gradually, however, when some
Of the pioneers viii have ceased doing
It harm by retiring from their pedes-
tais new era may do for it what il
has here in Utah; glorified it by liv-
ing testimonial to the fact that COM
plete purity in politics is only attain
able through the entrance of woman
INTO the field. The corruption and dis
honesty which have blinded the eyes
OF the eastern wOrkingman would not
so easily have dimmed the vision of
ms Elfe, taking IT for granted that she
be The average bright little American
woman, whose conscience is never an
peaied to in vain. and it is a fore
gone conclusion that, if the ballot is
gwen American women, and BRYAN
heads the silver ticket in 1900. he win
nave a larger majority than McKin-
ley ever dreamt of. Right, not might
IS lar oftener woman's watchL-ord
than a mans, making all due allow
aace for the fact that a man all too
frequently yields to might for the sake
of a woman.
know legislator in the state above
mentioned who went into Office fuIIv
resolved TO heed the pleadings of his
mother, lovely specimen of western
emancipated womanhood With the
hrst test, however brought about by
an almost savage onslaught nv WON,
ans rights defender of the most an
gular. aggressive type, his resolution
TOOK the form lof a decisive note which
VIII explain itself: Mother. I can't
advocate woman's suffrage here: if
would make me the tool of a LOT of
women whose. every action tends to
make them ridiculous. Were they like
sou and your friends, it would be diff
.eEent- forgive me-" Here, where suf-
rage existed for Il years prior to the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of women. such
statement would never find voice. II
could not, for long familiarity with
81 IT'S phases haSimade women welcome
n every rank of political life. setting
an example to the old civilization of
me far east. which is unique in that il
comes from brand new state.
While taking a stroll from one Doll
another on the eventful day which
III soon find mention in every school
DOCK OF this country, was most agree
IDLY impressed by the cleanliness .ex-
istant everywhere. The odor of Iiu,Ior
Of course was absent; it is supposed to
be. anyway, all over, even in little
images, where every second store is
Of the sightless pig variety" AS an
old soldier would have it, that reminds
me Of little election joke played by
one village candidate on another some
years ago, in North Dakota Enthusi-
3sm OF a suspicious kind had reigned
5upreme all morning in the store of the
republican cOnstable-elect, and his
trend, the enemy, bethought him of
IN dSSEaVatlng call on the former dur
ing the afternoon by all the children of
Z ne place, brimful of curiosity to see
ne pig which they were assured was |
keDt in fiding-a blind pig. too: Door
little thing. 1t was an effective meas |
ure. inasmuch as the condensed wrath
y the worthy storekeeper, hurled at the
innocents, conspired to give the victory |
% the Democrats.
h
But I was going to say that the en-
TIRE absence of tobacco juice and pro- |
lanlty can only he directly attributed
10 the presence of women at the polls
because men are as a rule the same the |
world over, and where suffrage does not /
EXIST, woman slipping into a polling
pia@e must prepare for a shock to every |
sense of delicacy. The rudeness of |
voters at the precincts is always urged |
as an argument against a possible reg |
,stratlon OF women, but the record of |
last Tuesday here shows not one in
stance OF it. Bountiful lunches served |
10 all by club committees, and nun1er |
Gus tete-a-tetes were incidents of the /
DAY, and had the weather been moro |
pleasant. society might have nro- |
claimed it as a social event and decreed |
that all the beauties of late fan oren- |
lngs should combine to render more |
fair the bright women who walked to |
the polls, much more earnestly and |
with infinitely more dignity than is |
of male voters. on tho
average. AS it was they afforded q /
glimpse into a probable American |
Utopia; and were certainly on orna-
nent to their sex and to the state of
Utah. which aS ga r,raoio,,~ -