Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-03
WOMEN AND POLITICS
UNIQUE SITUATION IN SOME OF
THE FAR WESTERN STATES.
May Decide the Elections in Utah,
Idaho, Wyoming and
Colorado.

A dispatch from Salt Lake, Utah, last
night says: Women suffrage in Utah will
probably be factor in favor of the Roose-
Welt ticket. In Idaho the reverse is true.
The reason is the same-Smoot. Mormon
ism. In Utah a majority of the women
are Mormons: in Idaho, Gentles.
Mormon leaders are representing to wom-
en- voters of that faith that the fate of
Senator Reed Smoot and the fate of Pres
ident Roosevelt are bound together, as
sorting that if Roosevelt is elected Smoot
will be permitted to retain his seat.
Women of the two states will doubtless
poll a larger vote, proportionately, this
year than ever before Mormon women
are being urged to support the republican
national ticket Gentle women will prob
ably vote according to their previous po-
htical belief AS in Utah a large majority
of the Gentiles are republicans, the pros
pect is that Roosevelt will receive most of
the votes cast by the Gentle women of
this state.
In Idaho the democrats have adopted an
anti polygamy plank. This will doubtless
draw to the support of the democratic
ticket large numbers OF Gentle women,
while it has antagoniZed Mormon women,
who would have been driven by the Nor
mon priesthood to support Roosevelt in
any case.
Wyoming Women Like Roosevelt.
A dispatch from Cheyenne, Wyom., last
night says: Women voters of Wyoming
will play an important part in the national
and state election next month. Realizing
this candidates on each ticket are doing
everything possible to win their votes.
Nominally there are six votes cast by
women in Wyoming for every ten by men,
but present indications justify the predic-
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nine. women will vote for every ten men
this year. The women voters are divided
politically about the same as the men.
There were in the last election five repub-
ican voters for every three demo-
Gratis and socialists. and there were about
five republican women voters for every
three democrats and socialists.
Since the Inauguration of woman suf-
frage in Wyoming and since the women
first took advantage of the right to vote
wives, daughters, sisters and other women
members of a family have voted just about
as the men of the family. There have been
a few exceptions where a candidate was
unpopular among the women.
There appears to be marked trend
among the women of Wyoming toward
President Roosevelt. He has campaigned
and hunted In the state and is probably
better known to its women than any pre-
vlous presidential candidate. 1t is certain
that all of the republican women and many
of the democratic women will favor him.
giving him the largest woman vote ever
| cast for a presidential candidate in the
state.
Wyoming women candidates get out and
| stump the state with the men. and their
presence always has a good effect in the
| campaigns. 1t is asserted that Wyoming
| politicians are less corrupt than those of
many other states because of the inf1u-
ence of the women voters.
Colorado Women Told to Go Home.
| A dispatch from Denver, Colo, last night
says: Instead of figuring as a strong fac
| tor in the presidential election, the woman
| vote may be completely sidetracked. ow-
! ing to the contemptuous treatment of the
| women by both leading parties. They have
| been told to go home and mind the babies,
as this was mans campaign.
| Democrats of Denver, the controlling CEN
| ter of the state election, went out of their
, way to repudiate the women who were