The San Francisco call., 1896-05-03

the quietest, most orderly and clesnest elec-
tion ever held since it was city.
There is only one way out OF this terrible
orgy of corruption and crime that the signs of
the time afford, and that is through the votes
of women.
The New York Sun, an opponent of woman
suffrage, saws: f'The great TACT demonstrated
in Kansas on Tuesday is that the women there
want to vote; that they are willing to beer the
burden of exercising the privilege OF the
suffrage whenever it is granted them. They
manifested very keen interest IN the elec-
ton, and were eager to go to the polls
The appearance OF women at the polls in as
mark on the ground that such publicity is un-
feminine. In these days women are entering
into so many employments, side by SIDE wlth
men, that they are encountered in all the
busy parts of the town, in the streets, and in
offices and counting-rooms. Their presence no
longer attracts particular observation, SO ire
quent is it. II is taken as q matter of course;
and if they were admitted to the suffrage they
would be as free from annoyance at the polls.
These clippings are selected from
large number equally as strong from va
rious newspapers. The woman's vote has
steadily increased during the past nine
years; the elections are orderly; the hack
neyed objections to woman suffrage are no
longer made and it is accepted rs natu-
raj and desirable thing.
The Territorial Legislature OF Wyoming
extended full suffrage to women IN 1869.
Twenty years later, when State constltu-
ton was adopted, it was unanimously de-
cided to incorporate an equal suffrage
plank. An attempt was made in Congress
to prevent its admission as State unless
the woman suffrage clause was stricken
out, but the members from Wyoming
stood by it and the battle was fought for
number of days. Finally a telegram was
sent to the Legislature of Wyoming, then
in session, that its admission was i'm,
periled. The answer came back, 1--WE will
remain a Territory a hundred years
rather than go in without woman suf-
frage.n The fight at last was won and
Wyoming women have full suffrage.
Every Governor from 1869 down to the
present time has declared In the strongest
terms in favor of it. The Chief Justices,
gress, without a single exception, have
given the strongest possible testimony In
its favor, on the platform and through the
press. United States Senator Carey of
Wyoming wrote to Chief Justice Horton
of Kansas in 1894:
Wyoming has now been a State for four
years and woman suffrage has shown all the
advantages that were claimed for it by its most
earnest advocates. All the opposition to
woman suffrage in this State is raised by per-
sons outside of the State. What stronger ar
gument can make when state from careful
observation for period of twenty years
that woman has exercised the elective fran
chise with wise discretion; that she performs
the duties entailed thereby with as high de-
gree of intelligence as the best of the male sex.
1t has not dethroned or degenerated her, nor
has it brought discord into the home l hope
the movement of this great reform will be
rapid, as it will result in untold benefit 70 our
country.
The Wyoming House of Representa-
tives, in 1898, passed by unanimous vote
the following concurrent resolution:
Be it resolved By the Second Legislature Of the
State Of Wyoming, That the possession and ex-
erciSe of suffrage by the women in Wyoming
for the past quarter of a century has wrotg ht
no harm and has done great good in many