The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-01-31
PRICE OF SUFFRAGE.
Committee Asked Enthusiastic wom-
an TO Remit.

Mrs. Anna Bagley, who is visiting
in this city, was once an enthusiastic
woman suffragist in Wyoming. Her
enthusiasm in the cause of her down
trodden sisters has waned almost to
the vanishing point. She cast Just
one vote-"for Theodore Roosevelt
for President" she says in the pride
of her heart--and it came near cost
ing her SIS. She declares 1t isn't
worth the money.
Wyoming, it must be remembered,
is In the vanguard of American States
in the march toward the universal
franchise. In that Commonwealth q
woman is every bit as good as a man,
or better, and, moreover, she can
prove 1t. She may not be able to
chase a jackrabbit or coyote through
the sage-brush quite so fast as her
buckskinned lord, or cut such fancy
figures with lariat at roundup"
but when 1t comes to welding the
ballot she will admit no inferiority.
Mrs. Bagley, while holding a posi-
ton under the State Government in
Cheyenne, exercised her right of
suffrage with due solemnity. Soon
afterward she moved to Great Falls.
Mont, where the fact that she had
once voted, mentioned casually dur
| ing some small talk. became known
among her friends. Mucn to her sur
| prise, she became heroine and had
thrust upon her honors she had not
counted on. The women of her i'm
mediate circle made much of one who
enjoyed the full political rights thus
far denied them, and at little dinner
she attended she found herself osten-
sibly labelled, "Montana's Only Wom-
an Voter" There 1t was on her menu
card in letters so big and bold that
there was none so blind she could moi
bear witness to the fame of this
guest. She bore her distinction mod
estly-somewhat diffldently, in fact.
After the lapse of year or so Mrs
Bagley had called to her attention
the fact that another election was
about to be held In Wyoming, and the
State-with a big "S"-needed her
Feeling sure of her party loyalty, the
managers of the campaign wrote to
her, offering her transportation II she
wished to return and cast her ballot
This was declined with thanks, and
she resigned herself to life in Mon
tana, where the electoral sovereignty
of mere man is absolute and undi-
vided. But she continued to be an
earnest believer in woman's rights
until-until she was rudely awakened
to the fact that her suffrage idol had
feet, not of clay but of mud.
The blow was delivered in this
wise: Mrs. Bagley received from the
head of the Wyoming Campaign Com
mittee a letter reading something like
this
Dear Madam-We beg to call
your attention to the fact that cam
paign is in progress in this State II
which is involved not only the yer!
life of the party but the whole caust
of good government, II not the safet!
of the Nation itself. We find our
selves pinched for funds with whicl
to pay necessary campaign expenses
and an allotment of the amount nee
essary has been made among thos,
most interested in the success of tn,
party. Your share has been fixed a
SIS. Please remit by check or none.
order"
Mrs. Bagley rubbed her eyes, ant
the beautiful dream of the politica
equality of the sexes vanlshed.-Chi
cago RecordHerald.