Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-11-04

Gov. Warren, who succeeded Hale,
and was in Office when the Territory
became a State, said:
Our women consider much more
carefully than men the character
OF candidates, and both political par
ties have found themselves obliged to
nominate their best men in order to
obtain the support Of the women.
Most of these Governors were Repub-
licans. Hon. N. L. Andrews Demo.
craft Speaker Of the Wyoming House
of Representatives., said in 1879:
came to this Territory in the fall of
1871, with the strongest prejudice pos
sible against woman suffrage. The
more l have seen of it. the less my OBJ
jections have been realized, and the
more it has commended itself to my
judgment and good opinion. Under
and has been productive of much in
! dependence and discrimination in re.
gard to the qualifications of candidates
than men do. If the ballot in the hand
of woman compells political parties to
place their best men in nomination,
this, in and of itself, is a sufficient rea-
son for sustaining woman suffrage.
Hon. j. w. Kingman, for four years
a judge of the United States Supreme
Court in Wy oming, says:
The women manifest q great deal of
independence in their preference for
candidates, and have frequently de-
feated bad nominations. Often the
men set aside certain applicants for
Office because their characters would
not stand the criticism of women.
Ex-Chief Justice Fisher, of Cheyenne
says:
wish I could show the people who
are SO wonderfully exercised on the
subject of female suffrage, just how it
works. The m watch the nom-
mating conventions, and if the Repub-
licans put u bad man on their ticket
and the Democrats q good one, the Re-
publican women do not hesitate a mo-
ment in scratching off the bad and
substituting the good. It is just so
with the Democrats. / have seen the
effects of female suffrage, and instead
of being a means of encouragement to
fraud and corruption, it tends greatly
to purify elections and give better
government.
Judge Brown, of Laramie, Wyoming,
says:
My prejudices we're formerly all
against woman suffrage. but they have
gradually given way. My observation,
extended over a period of fifteen years,
satisfies me of its entire justice and
propriety. Impartial observation has
l o1c0 cnfioRal ~ chat ~ kI,o ,co ~ Tho
ballot women exercise fully as good
ulars are more discriminating, as. for
instance, On questions of morals.
The editor of the New York Obser-
yer was opposed to woman suffrage.
He wanted some strong testimony
against it, and wrote to a lady of his
acquaintance in Wyoming, the wife of
a United States Judge, and a leading
member of the Presbyterian church,
asking her to write an account of the
practical workings Of oma suffrage
for his paper. She replied:
Icsme to Wyoming three years ago
from Missouri, and brought with me
fully the usual amount of conserva-
tism; and 1 regarded with peculiar sus-
picion the idea of woman's entering
the political arena. My observations
have materially modified my views up
on this subject. The women are less
governed by party considerations than
men, and both political parties have
come to recognize the necessity of
nominating their best men, or at least
not nominating bad men, if they
desire to succeed. The only element
that would desire its repeal is the VIC
ious and corrupt.
Rev. j. H. Burlison, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church of Laramie
City, says:
The women have suffered no loss of
respect or consideration, and they are
fully as intelligent aud independent as
men in the exercise of their right of
suffrage.
Testimonies could easily be multi
piled, but these are enough.
The advocates. of woman suffrage
have often publicly challenged its OPP
ponents to find two persons in all Wyo-
ming who will assert over their own
names and addresses that woman suf-
frage there has had bad results. The
opponents have failed to respond.