Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-28

q publication Of the National Woman
Suffrage Association, treating of the
operations Of universal franchise in
Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, but
here quoted with particular reference
to Colorado. The first document TO
which Mrs. Boyd calls attention is a
letter from William Stapleton, of the
Denver Republican, dated May 1, 1896,
in which he says
Equal suffrage has been the law in Col
orado for nearly three years now, and
nothing could induce the Intelligent people
of this State to revoke that act If they had
the power. - In all the elections he'd
since the change was made women have
cast more than 40 per cent. of the total
vote, and everybody admits that their
presence in politics and at the polls has a
iitical methods, and has compelled the
nomination and election of better class
of officials than male suffrage ever gave
u.s."
This is followed by statement,
Signed by Albert W. McIntire, Cover
nor, John Evans, Ex-Governor. John L..
Routt, Ex-Governor, Alva Adams, Gov
ernor-elect, H. NJ. Teller and Edward
o. Wolcott, United States Senators,
John F. Schafroth, member of Con-
gress, and many others, to the effect
that the rumors concerning the opera
tons of woman's suffrage in the State
of Colorado are wholly unwarranted by
the facts, and these gentlemen volun-
teer the statement that ''the greatest
good of the home, the State and the
nation is advanced through the opera
ton of equal suffrage" following this
with the assertion that "In 1894 more
than half the total vote for Governor
was cast by women. Between IS and
80 per cent of the women of the State
voted at that time The exact vote If
the last election has not yet been esti-
mated, but there is reason to believe
that the proportional vote of women
was as large as in previous years"
The following is also submitted for
public consideration upon this ques-
tom
II is SlSnlncant TACT mat the Claim is
made that ffty-two per cent. of the voters
of Colorado are women, although there
are thirty thousand more men than women
in the State. During the present session
of the Legislature the following resolu..
ton was passed aVowing the success OF
woman suffrage in Colorado:
Whereas, Equal suffrage has been in
operation in Colorado for five years, during
which time the women have exercised the
privilege as generally as men. with the
result that better candidates have been Sc
ected for office. methods of election have
been purified. the character of legislation
improved, civic intelligence increased, and
Womanhood developed to greater useful
ness by political responsibility therefore
be 1t
Resolved, BY the House of Representa-
tives, the Senate concurrinS, That in
view of these results the enfranchisement
of women IN every State and Territory OF
the American Union is recommended as
measure tending TO the advancement OF a
higher and better social order
THAT an authenticated copy of this
resolution be forwarded by the Governor or
the state to the Legislature of every State
and Territory, and that the press be re-
quested to call public attention to THESE
resolutions.
Several members spoke earnestly in ia
vor of the resolution, which was carried
by n vote of As to 3.
"The resolution passed the Senate next
daV bV a vote of 30 to !"