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Show H The "Dispatch" and Suffrage. BBb As the question ol women votltij; ii BBl now being discussed in marly every BBr quarter and tho bestowing of aullrag on BBl them by th recent constitutional coif BBl ention I being looked Into, tlio potltlon BBl somn of the papers took In regard to tl c BBf matter at the tlmo ol tho great dirnia- BkB lion lit being hurled fornard and back BBg wardbyour Indies. Severn! of them BBc havo aslud us togive what was said by BkB the 1'roro DIepatcli on thin subject To B please them and to let otir renders know fi how that tapcr looked at the woman fl suffrage question we copy tho following KB editorial of that paper of March 1 1 : BkB Till gtCKKUNESS OV I'l.KIKICR. BBV The Salt I.ako llernld It ory pro-fl pro-fl nounctd In Ha advocacy of a provision fl in the now constitution enfranchising fl women I,ait fnll both the rcpnbllcnni fl and the democrata, In thu bitter struggle BBV for votei and thinking to win inllticnto BBB by the measure, adopttd planks plc-dg-ft lug their several parlies to advocate tho BBb "sacred caueo" of fcmalo sulIYa jn. Tluit BBV paper now calls lustily for the demo-BBS demo-BBS crats to rodetm tho pledge then nudu BBB and alio intimates that the republicans BBS iiad better go and do likewise. In the BBt first place the democratic convention BBJ had no right to make such n pledge. It BBJ was, and is, nltogetlior against the whole BBJ history and genius of tho domocrncy. BBJ Bccral states of this union liavo nioud BBJ (or female sutrrago and two nt least BBJ have accomplished it, but it is a, itolublo BBJ fact that all this sort of "progress" tins BflJ been as yet, confined to republican BBB states. Tho simple fuct Is tliat tho vi hole Bfl thine Is nnti-democratlc and foreign to BBB all history, precedent and policy of ck-HBV ck-HBV luocrncy. Not n single lino of Jefferson BBb even suggests such u principle. Nor BBV. can auch a lino be found in any work by BKV anyeneof tlio damocratic fathers, either BBb nuciont or modern. Then a democratic BBl minority In our conuttlutlunul couven-BBV couven-BBV tlonmay well iguore, if it chooses, a BBB hasty and foolish plcdgo made by a con-BBft con-BBft iitlotiaii(l atilldonogrcat lolcnceto BBV either principle or usage. If a. foolinh BBB follow in lti cups pledgLs lilmitdf to BBH iwallon an ounce ef tiiorpliiiiw limit lie BBB make good tho pledge when he is aiber? BBB There aro aonie pledgaa moro honored in BBB the breech than in tlio olwcivnnco, and BBB that pledge las' fall is one of this ihar-BBB ihar-BBB aetsr. A this is the only argument the BBJ Herald presents we naturally conclude BBB thntit la hating Mt of darkl; concealed BBBJ fun at somebody's expense We tin not BBB want to see tho franchise forced upon BBB our fair sifters whether or no, in any BBB such way, for we feel that if submitted BBB to a oo of the women thomiehes the BBB proposition would be voted down by n BBB tremendous majority. The ardor ol the BBB thick and thin advocates of the measure BBB is only simulated. It is not real galbn BBB try and devotion to the six which in-BBB in-BBB duces young and enthusiastic men to BBB rush into the breech against all history, BBB- all precedent and nil nature to fon-r BBB modest and shrinking womanhood Into BBB th full blare and blaeof partisan poll BBB tics. The ladles rtad this as the callow BBB and devil-may-care obtillltion of imma-BBB imma-BBB ture statesmanship, seeking that tiotori-BBB tiotori-BBB oty which is denied to its udvocatcx in BBB tlio legitimate channels of polltli al nm-BBB nm-BBB bltion The theory Is Hint if this great BBB boon is conferred by tlio ciTorti of this BBBJ tender and crisp sort of ttatcuianihip. BBBJ thenowly enfranchised can do nothing BBBJ lets than ote for their benefactors to BBBJ tho end of Mie chapter. BBB Take tho women who have, as jet BBB taken hold of tills matter, and who can BBB Bay how much ambition to hold office BBB has bsen implanted in their on n tender BBB bosoms mid tills sort of assumed obliga-BBB obliga-BBB tlon to refrain themselves and Mite for BBB the champions instead would be found BBB tolmvoa very bitter taste and the worn-BBBJ worn-BBBJ en would Indignantly refuse tocarry out BBBJ that assumed or implied pledge, if she BBB never did another purely political act in BBB her life. "Th euthusiaim evoked last BBB fall" by tlie adoption of the plank will BBBt ho found to be very limp and unsc.iwor-BBB unsc.iwor-BBB thy this fall. Ni franchise enjojed by BBB thtdoar ladies in Utah 'several jears BBBB since, when tho government of the tr-BBBB tr-BBBB rltory was a theocracy was a yory difT- . BBBB erent proposition to political enfrau-BBB enfrau-BBB chisementtuch as is proposed now, or BBB such as Colorado is "blessed" with. The : BBBB enly oxcuio for the suli'rngo olTeied la ' BBBB th necessity for reform. BBB Woman's suffrage may bo good moral- ' BBB Hy, but It fa an indiflsrent article of de- BBB pocrasy, all th same. BBBBBBBBBBBf |