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Show 1I1EFI.M4U: MFFltACEMOVE. IU EXT. The effort on the part of a number of ladies of respectability and social standing to exercise the right of suffrage suf-frage here on Thursday, seems to have been part of a preconcerted and general gen-eral movement in the same direction throughout the country, with a view to testim; the matter in the courts. We see that at an election held last week at Yellow Springs, Ohio, some twenty ladies presented themselves at the polls and demanded of the judges of election that their ballots be re ceived. The judges declined, and invited in-vited them into a room to discuss the matter. They complied, and for an hour the matter was argued pro and con. The ladies iusisted that the Fifteenth Fif-teenth Amendment repealed so much of the Fourteenth Amendment as would seem to refuse to women all the rights of citizenship. The trustees read the law, and said that they must adhere to their oath. The ladies called upon a Professor of Antioch College to argue their case, which he did at some length, claiming that "citizens" "citi-zens" meant both men and women. But it availed nothing. The ladies withdrew, with-drew, saying they wanted the pleasure of casting their votes on the table if not in the ba'.lot-box, when it was observed ob-served that the board of trustees would keep the ballots as memorials of the first attempt of ladies to vote in Ohio., it is stated by the Ohio papers that these ladies were nearly all connected with Antioch College, and that "no other twenty ladies can be found in the country with higher attainments or more moral worth." It is apparent that the advocacy of female suffrage is being taken up by women of more feminity fem-inity and higher social standing than heretofore, and a corresponding impulse im-pulse will probably be given to the movement, as undoubtedly it has been hindered in the past by being cham-pionei cham-pionei maiol7 by eccentric, "strong minded" and unwomanly women. When the women of the country de-maud de-maud suffrage they will be apt to get it. Washington Star. |