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Show Women Alicad There. The constitution the state projectors in Wyoming have been framing contains a peculiar feature or two that may not facilitate its entrance upop statehood. It is the only new Btate that has ever abolished the distinction of sex in the voter. This instrument not only provides pro-vides for female suitragc but establishes a new educational qualification. The voter must vw; in English and read in English, and. if not a uative. must be fully naturalized. This is a marked change from the practice of the other new states and some of the others in the west with a large alien born clement. Women have hail the right to vote in Wyoming in . nearly all its history, and have sat on ! juries and held the lower judicial positions. posi-tions. But an applicant for admission, coming with this condition, may be discovered dis-covered by wary congressmen to. liave insufficient population. St, Paul Globe. |