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Show WOMEN VOTERS IN KENTUCKY. <br><br> Some of our northern contemporaries are boasting immensely of the wonderful progress of their portion of the Union in liberality, because two or three northern States have recently give women permission to vote for school trustees. Massachusetts and Vermont have only accorded this privilege within two years, and there never was such a display of reckless boasting in these States. For the benefit of our northern fellow-citizens we call attention to the fact that for many years - sixteen, at least - Kentucky has bidden women to the polls to vote for trustees. The law for the election of school trustees reads as follows in the first section. "Each school district shall be under the control of one trustee, an election for whom shall be held at the school house of such district, or such other convenient place as the trustee may select… At this election the qualified white voters of the county shall be the electors, and any white widow, having a child between six and twenty years of age, may also vote in person or by proxy."<br><br> The widows of Kentucky have not shown a very fervent desire to avail themselves of this privilege, but they can, at any election for school trustees, assert their rights so freely accorded them. Our Massachusetts fellow-citizens were very tardy in giving the "sacred ballot" to women. Kentucky is really far ahead of the northern states in according privileges to this sex. The office of State Librarian has been well filled for some years by women.-Louisville Journal. |
