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Show Thk Election. Quietness was the order of the day yesterday. Everybody appeared to have read the Herald attentively on Sunday, and to have taken the sensible advice giren therein. The 10th ward brass band, Captain Beesely's martial band and Olsen's string band were out, and discoursed some excellent music. Brief visits to the polling places gave us to understand under-stand that a large number of ladies were exercising the lately granted ri ght of the franchise. And though there was considerable good-humored chaffing, the utmost respect was shown by all to the ladies, for whom a separate separ-ate entrance to the place of voting was provided. This election will be memorable in the history of the Territory as the first Territorial election at which women exercised the franchise. There have been municipal elections in ' different places, since Hon. S. A. Mann attached attach-ed his signature to the act conferring the suffrage upon them; but this is the first time the women of Utah have had an opportunity to express by their ballots their sentiments on a leading public question whether they, the parties most deeply concerned, would sustain polygamy or repudiate it ; for this question has been lugged into the election and forced upon the voters by a few who believed in a fight, no matter mat-ter how great the fizzle they would make. The result of the polling, when known, will show that the women emphatically em-phatically sustain their husbands, fathers fath-ers and brothers, their domestic institutions, insti-tutions, their hearths and homes every time, before a few dissension-breeding "carpet-baggers" there, the word's out and we can't help it. And, now, we'll say : Hurrah for the women of Utah and their choice for Delegate, the People's choice, Hon Wm. II Hooper 1 |