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Show WOMAN AS A VOTER. Woman enfirago has been recommended recom-mended to loo "reupecllul consideration" considera-tion" of republican voters by the National republican convention, and in this connection tome facts from the recorded volhiy in the national grange will be intere.-ling to both the lr iends and opponents of feminine balloting. A olauding objection to the change proposed is that married women will vote with their htishnnda, and that the unmarried will he inlln-enced inlln-enced by the opinions of their masculine mascu-line friends. Tho trouble has bt'en to sustain tho assertion by facts, hut since- the wives of members of the grange are entitled to Die ballot by their relation to their husbands, the difficulty is partially removed. From the different divisions of the national grange statistics havn been gathered showing tho votes of the hul.ind and wife on several ditfrront measures. Thus wo find that, with one wedded pair, the two voted hs one nineteen limes, and only in four cases did tho vino tear iUell fiom the oak and vote against him. In tho following couplets coup-lets of figures the first represents the number of times tho husband and wife agreed in their voting on dillerent meaMirfS, and tho second represents tho mi m be r of limes tho husband thought ho knew tietter than his wile and would not vote a she did (or the oilier way, just as you ehocwo to put it): 12, 5; 11, 0; 4, 0; ll; 1, (); 11, 1; 10, i; 21, 0; 10, 0; II, 0; I), 1; 8, 2; 17, 0; 10, 0; 20, 1: 22, 0; 10, 1: 15, 7; 15, 3; 18, 0; 12, 2; 17, 2; i;i, 0; Rt, 2; 10, 1; and 180. Total votfd together, 3V8 Limes; disagreed, 'M times. iivitvn Advertiser. |