| Show of equal suffrage there are some queer choa in the democracy of utah conr opponents started out favoring bounties aad the enquirer had considerable of a task on its hands in debating the question with the local dem veratio organ to convince it that the giving of bounties is a Be publican principle king and judge milner both talked bounties to the farmers in tb northern portion of nr county in the fall of 1892 all D loc rats have learned now that the principle of encouraging home andua tri as the utah pioneers did by div 10 is not democratic here is another question en which utah democrats differ with their party elsewhere the question of equal suffrage the utah democrats claim to ba equal and tell the women that it is due to democratic doctrine that the ladies are to be given their franchise some day in the nw future our democratic friends will learn that comans womans suffrage is far from being democratic we showed a few days ago how democrats the women of utah under grover Clev elands former administration and how they proposed to disfranchise the entire mormon people the only members of congress who then opposed the of women were republicans public ans the next tima and about tha only time when woman suffrage came squarely before congress was in the case of the admission of wyoming the people of that territory Terri tery came in 1890 with a state already prepared asking for admission into the union the women of the ter antory had for twenty years cajoled the right of equal suffrage with men and the state constitution perpetuated that right in clauses similar to those in the utah constitution on equal suffrage the republicans of the fifty first congress recommended that wyom ing be admitted on their prepared constitution while the democrats opposed admission mainly on the woman suffrage question ahey a minority report from the corn mitlee on territories after equal suffrage atia a lengthy report and wo can only quote a little of it to how its tenor it saya why has the male aex alona raade tha laws because law with whatever majesty we may invest it is will which to biye it effect must be backed with force and the force of the community ia male As gait hamilton every ballot is a bullet muscle is the coaree foundation on which the moat intellectual and august fabric of legislation leri reels in that strain the report goes on and then they append a lengthy magazine article by prof goldwin smith against equal aun rage wherein women in politics is ridiculed alie minority also reported an enabling act for wyoming tho women who had alie rights of for tome twenty beare when the admission bill finally came up march 20 1890 the discus gion covered two days and the most prominent feature of that debate was woman suffrage Buff rage the only opponents were democrita and they first held up that it was gcorge F barnea of georgia contending that wyoming should come in as the original thirteen states which had male suffrage delegate carey of wyoming referred to jersey which had equal suffrage for years and came into tho union with women having he vo finding ly orsted oh 0 the question Democrats the employed that common weapon against suffrage ridicule william 0 oates of alabama and joseph E washington of tennessee tried their hands at that weapon mr washington thanked god that has not yet adopted any of these newfangled new ideas she has BO disposition to take any euch new departure or follow any ol 01 these progressive follies other southern congressmen spoke in same strain for their democratic constituencies harridon Harr kelley of kansas a republican replied to them ho was glad the suffrage question had came up for discussion in congress he believed it was the first time in many years he then went on mr speaker in the state of kansas this ia no naw question and I 1 am free to eay that I 1 bare been at some of the remarks made here today in reference to this matter now won men are occupying today and have for years occupied public in state many of them are county officers the county court clerks registers of deeds county denta of public icet ruction and hav been for years and maka te t e best of ficera we have mr has thorn mr keley no ir they are councilmen mayors police ancs abid they vote corll offices it does not hurt their looks if bach a thing poa I 1 think it makes them belter lot king thy attend to business and when one of constituents of the gentleman rom missouri came over the line with his bottle of kansas city whisky and bot only a little intoxicated in the city of boiton wood falls and was arrain ged beora the police judee who is a lady and fined 15 and she threw in a 15 minute lecture tha gentleman immediately acore off on and the court threw kofl the fine this is supposed to be one of the reasons why the man mr from that district thinks prohibition a fa ilura again mr speaker I 1 wanted to say that the assistant of the state ot kansas is a corcan and she has entire control of the legal department part ment of the state of kansas hes cause the attorney general is absent from the state noody ever complain d that she as a lawyer did not aja duct the legal part of the state properly in tact it is universally understood that the assistant attorney general of the state of kansas is a much better lawyer than the attorney beneral himself laughter 1 such arguments counted for more than all the democratic ridicule when it come to a vote all democrats in the fifty first congress Con gresa voted against equal suffrage |
