New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-24
Reply TO BISHOP UO1NF
AAiOH STONE BLACKWELL DECLARES THAT
WOMAN SUFFRAGE HAS BEEN
FAILURE NOWHERE

! Alice Stone Blackwell o, Dorchester Nc.
OF the foremost advocates OF woman snra.. -
| the United States feel. that serious n,n.,,.'
mas oeen done 20 the cause OF suffrage in eer,.,.
sweeping remarks OF Bishop Doane. % AIhanv 80.
also OF Mrs Cranncll. who +; actively onosin. -.
effort to give the ballot to women Mrs pl...
well says:
III all the reckless statements made by Bsho,
Doane the most audaoous Is that the nr.c,,o,
result OF woman suffrage. whore II has heen ,-,..
is perhaps. the strongest argument aQ.lrs, o.,
on this point Mrs. crannen says: Let us ,sv.
facts. Let US have them by all means VIA, a-
the facts?
woman suffrage was established I'm WyonI,r 4,
1863. Seven years later a motion 10 rcregl q, 50.
made In the Wyoming Legislature Tho no,lo,
tailed for want OF seconder and the mover
was laughed down by the House After twenty
years' experience Of woman suffrage as Ter.,,orr
Wyoming voted by large majority TO sncorDorat.
1t in the new Constitution when she became a stat.
Among those who testify to It's good results ara
Chief Justices and Judges OF the Supreme Cour,
prominent cersymen OF almost al denominations
doctors. editors honorable women not few and
all the Territorial Governors extending over .yen,y
years. Governors OF Territories are appointed hv
the President elected by the people: hence the,
testimony is impartial In addition the Wyoming
House OF Representatives. in 1898 passed by unau.
mous vote resolution declaring that the eyercss
OF suffrage By woman for the lar, quarter Of A
century has wrought no harm and has done grea,
good In many ways.
The advocates Of woman suffrage have for year
had standing challenge Inviting it, opponents
to find two persons In all Wyoming who will assert
over their own names and addresses. that woman
suffrage has had any bad results whatever The
opponents have thus far JAILED to respond.
What has Bishop Doane to offer in opposition
to this great mass OF evidence which on any other
subject would be regarded conclusive? Nothing
He falls back on Mrs. Cranne. What has she to
offer? Anonymous testimony. usual. 7 told
this and i, is reported that etc.
only one name appears amid this hazy vague
ness. Mrs CranneIl says: General Thompson Who
managed the Democratic campaign In Wyoming in
1922. said the women's vote the easiest thing
in the world to get 20 keep and TO manipulate. In
1892 Wyoming went Republican. II the gentleman
who managed the Democratic campaign In that
year found the womens vote the easies, thing In
the world TO get. the question naturally arises why
did he not get it? II he really made the remark
attributed to him. he probably made II before cleo.
ton and found that he had reckoned without his
hostcsscs
Far from the women's vote being the easiest
thing in the world TO get and to manipulate
there is any one point which the public men O.!
Wyoming agree upon II is that the women are
more discriminating than men In regard 10 the
characters of candidates.
John W. Kingman. for four years Judge
the Wyoming Supreme Court. writes: The wome,
manifest a great deal of independence in thea
pre- ference for candidates. ard have frequently de-
featCd bad nominations. 1t il very common now
in considering the availability of an aspirant fo'
office. ask how he stands with the ladies. Ere
Office because their characters would not stand hs
criticism of women
"Ex- Chief Justice Fisher OF Wyoming says
The women w.rch the nominating conventions
and II the Republicans put bad man on tne
ticket and the Democrats "A good one the Repun
lican onion do not hesitate a moment In scratch
ing off the bad and substituting the good III u
tust with the Democrats | have seen INK
effects of female suffrage. and instead or being .
means Of encouragement TO fraud and corruption
II tends greatly to purify elections ana s"s
better government.
Testimonials might he multiplied: hut all may
he summed UP In the words OF y. l.. Andrews
Speaker of the Wyoming House OF Representative.
lie wrote: I came 70 Wyoming with the strongss.
prejudice possible against woman suffrage lhs
been realized. The women use the ballot WIN NOR.
and discrimination I'm regard 70 w
qua lihcations Of candidates than roen 10 " tnS
ballot In the hands OF women coinpels pohtCa
parties to place their best men IN nomination UNI, ths
in and Of itself. is sufficient reason for SUSTAINING
woman suffrage ,,.,u
When stupid but good Queen Charlotte died
was said of her that she was real loss 10 nns.
In nd because. II she did nothing else she ~ "a.
served ~ IA weight attached to m" door ., wv
court to keep N shut against dsr'pu'an' WIZ, ".
II woman Suffrage served other purpose tns,
thai of weight attached to the door OF pubic onIs
10 keep 1t shut against disropGtable noli'lse"'
this alone would be n boon to TIE Republic