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Show It EPREsENT AT TV S SPRIXOER, of Illinois, who has introduced a bill to regulate elections in Utah, calls himself him-self a democrat. This bill abolishes femalo suffrage and excludes from the ballot polygamists, insane persons, idiota, aud persons convicted of felony or bribery, unless restored to civil rights; but it leaves in full citizenship male prostitutes, drunkards, petty thieves, gamblers and a host of criminals crimi-nals of other grades. Why not exteud your disfranchising list to cover these classes, Mr. Springer, if you are a democrat, as you pretend to be ? While we are about it let us have a pure ballot ? |