The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-11-04

parade. and never In the history OF pol
tiles was anything 80 gorgeous 10 be-
hold. The only thing to mar the beauty
OF the parade OF tho leading woman's
party was the appearance OF tho Len
derton club. which cut up high Jlnks
to the delight OF the tougher element In
male politics. This, however, kept tho
mems parade In shape. for tho ruff
fans all deserted TO follow the parade
OF the Lenderton clnha. Some OF the
marshnls had difficulty In keeping tho
bhldhcadE In line, though.
Tho ballots had already been printed.
or course there was trouble over this, for
each woman wanted the ballot OF color
cd paper TO match the compilations OF
the Judges and clerks at the voting
placc0 But white wus at last allowed
TO be the color, though q valiant fight
was made fNr terra Gotta. The women
who advocated white did co because
they said II denoted purity. and TINT was
what they were after In polltlcd,
II came election day. Tho great day
went like It usually does. but there was
smaller turnout Of women than was
expected. Tie returns came In as uau-
al-that Is much slower than people
wnnt them TO. The women had some
difficulty In doing their new work OF
counting, etc. II looked at tlrst as II the
NO FirtSile' party was golnE 10 win.
and men stood about and shudderrd.
One man who had lived In boarding
house q month because hls wife was
busy getting up election literature. fool
lshly went 10 the nearest voting place
and killed. himself with = revolver.
When his wltc heard OF this she sudden
ly went totally Insane.
The mo flresldc" party was forging
ahead rapidly In the returns. The
'Ilomc" PARTY was gaining slowly. 1t
looked Us II the "So Home" party was
to win, md bulletins were flashing out
from every newspaper office. Great
crowds surEcd In the streets. and yelled
and blew horns. Painted faced, bold
eyed women hOwlcd and yelled In de-
light. The most OF the women who
had clamored for n ballot. trcmblcd rs
they threaded their way through the
crowds, Some stayed At home and pray
ed. Many IN their secret hearts said:
~ will pray for my old home. Let me
rule there and influence my family for
tho right and ! will never u6aln nsk
for the ballot. understand something
Of politics, but same things In 1; are too
awful for ne.
\ political campaign and work In Il
had developed some odd mistakcg, but Il
hal shown many women something OF
the way p0lltlcs are handled. The trick
cries to win. The things to be done TO
make the other slide fail. were shown up.
Il was n revelation to most OF them.
The men can do all this political work.
end II We but Influence them to do Il
rightly, we have the winning OF things
for the right" was the thought OF many
4 woman. as she saw the ending OF the
fight II Ia: between the "So Flrcslde"
and the Home" parties. 1t seemed as
II the party. the platform OF which was
to be an adjustment OF the home cad
Old fashioned notions regarding, the
del!cacy OF women, was to win. But
the last returns came in and the c9ndi-
dates for the party advocating Home"
three warm meals per day. and the zane
woman. lovely and loving. as In days OF
old. had won.
The women>who loved home had Sc
crctly helPsd TO win the fight against
the II other parties In the field. although
their open speech had been against the
Homeless II had been an amusing and
instructive campaign The advocates
OF the supremacy OF woman Were sull
In the fields, but the belief that they
had preached that the giving Of the
ballot TO woman would carry with Il the
vindIcatlon ~ their Views and the
crushing o. tyrant man. had received a
confouHded hard JOLT Most women
were not hungerlng after as many new
Ideas after that as before.