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Show Ex-Sesator Doolittle, who filled Mr. Davis' place as orator at the Winnebago county (Ills.) fair, proposed pro-posed a new suffrage scheme to "give to householders and heads of houses two votes, one to represent their manhood iu common with all other men, and one to represent the household, including women and children. An exchange thinks this is an absurdity. If a man who is the head of a family of two should havo Irftf votes ono for his family and one for his "manhood" why should not a man with the family of three have three votes, and so on. As the number of his children increases, in-creases, he usually needs to increase his income. As two votes are better political trading capital than one, so six votes woidd be more valuable to a familied political bummer than two. And as one of the queer reasons given in advocacy of of this political nostrum nos-trum by its inventor is that it would tend to promote matrimony, obviously that reasop wi?uld be stronger if another an-other vote were added for every new arrival. This "manhood suffrage," womanhood suffrage, and babyhood suffrage would be happily combined under one capacious toga vir-ilia. |