| Show laomen VOTING FOR PRESIDENT it ought to be known but to la not very widely that to the territory of utah belongs belong the honor of having first given to women the right to voted vote at general elections and that it was exer alsed and a ad in moo moat t oases cases enjoyed for several years until it was abolished by federal legislation those who occasionally cas casio nally tonally credit wyoming with being the pioneer commonwealth in the matter of woman aut sul of course do so through not being properly informed on the subject of course we are speaking now of recent times wyoming however enjoys envoys the rare distinction of being the first state since colonial days day in which the fair sex voted for president of the united state which they did on tuesday last president cleveland goes into the white house on the fourth of next march with the gratifying assurance that ladies actually participated in his election at least they voted in an election in which he was the successful candidate so that in addition to hav ng the biggest majority any governor ever had bad and the greatest vote for president any man ever bad in time of peace be now places among the distinguishing features of his triumph the circumstance to which our neighbor boron on the east gave birth it is related of a distinguished citizen of laramie lia ramie that he once said the men man encouraged the girls to vote in wyoming because it made them hurry up and get the dishes done so as aa to get down to the polls poll it is a 8 recorded fact that ten years ago lose less than fifty per cent of the population of wyoming were women but they are catching up rapidly with the men in numbers as in political power there are or were in 1890 men in wyoming and there are women alternate women delegates from wyoming attended the republican convention at minneapolis A concludes that there to is no reason in the world why women might not have been regularly made presidential electors and we look for that distinction great as am it will be and even revolutionary as it may appear in some mens estimation to be accorded them four years hence if they are good enough to participate in the electors of president and vice preal lent dent they are surely good enough to be electors themselves this is in speak ing politically observe you in a general way their goodness Is not a subject requiring affirmation the governor of wyoming in a late mes mee sage gives an emphatic dime me tw too to that declaration and adds that he likes the way the women vote there which may mean that a good many of them hem voted for him |
