Show FEMALE I FRANCHISE Ra n floor ahk it i astonishing ling that 0 f the most leavel headed people and papers will go afrin off in an angle of from 45 to 89 degrees whenever they touch the oll of ifor monIG Z jou journalists ans I 1 I 1 i at s w whose ii 0 f se j judgment y u d g e m en t generally 11 we cannot help but indorse derse in and whose honest intentions we have no appa apparent rent reason or c call all in 0 aiton ff a ta al almost most incalculable deflection when eyer therome the come across that burning puzzle of the day utah her people and her system there seems to be a si sad d f fatality about it some w itches charm these are the leonc conclusions conc lusious we are compel compelled led to arrive at when we find and ui Is i st 4 p a journal gener generally aUy so well informed as the omaha bee making of itself a sorry of designed falsification or cre credulous bulou s misinform mation thus our esteemed 11 gate city contemporary in a lato late issue takes umbra umbrage e at senator bia mander nar sons yote in the U S senate in favor of striking out of the new hoar bill the section abolishing female franchise ise teebee the bee admits that the gentleman geni femal am from darask nebraska alib has as been a consistent advocate of woman suffrage but it cannot comprehend how he be could favor woman suf frage in utah where it has been for years the main prop of polygamy my 19 this last quotation guo tation is only one of six gross misstatements made by the bee editor in just four times that many lines six lies to twenty four lines horo here favorable to the ft va t pe people 0 ale of utah than we generally get from the eastern press but some of the bees stings aro are of so venomous a nature that we are afraid th aliey ey will react more on the originator than on the objective victim how haa has fb for ih instance siance I 1 woman su frage in utah been the main mainstay stay of polygamy agamy haa ilas there everdeen ever been a up jor the voters giving polygamy or any other ma ari arrangement legal sanction W what at legislation what election in which the women took a part has ever had reference to polygamy g imi y the writer of the bee paragraph had better get the main prop of truth to sustain tho the exceedingly cee slender scaffolding ot of his suppositions vitious f but going by rules the bee proceeds by way of climax by piling evidences of hla his I 1 rr ir binaley anius an manifestations of of liis his ignorance he asserts that tho the elective franchise in the hand bands of ate he mormon women is go so many votes cast under the direction of the bishops and elders how did our omaha oracle presume to find that out many bishops and elders has he be heard directing tile how to vote docs does ho lie take the mormon women fo idiots tools or instruments does he be grant the women of utah less womanhood less sense less justice less judgment than the women of nebraska for whom he claims those very rights for t the he cx ex creise of bf which he so malignantly berates the women of this territory ilesi he fc continues evidently taking lii texts from irom the belt salt lake city arch liar in journalism that wagon loads of woman the wives sisters and daughters of cormons mormons Mor mons are carried carrica to the polls where they are voted like so many cattle now ikass to pass by with silent disgust and conix contempt ampt the bad grammar and in finitely worse taste cf of athla statement does our omaha luminary know knew orien or even pretend to know that no such wagon loads of women have ever been brought to polls in utah except it be because the roads distance and weather rendered pedestrian locomotion impossible for our mothers 8 bisters istar and t ly any number of wagon gon loads of mormon women would bo bd prefer able abl 1 il infinitely hAni tely preferable to the buggy load of harlots barlots following a united states governor of utah in of july procession if the omaha bee man would think more lees less he would pull his hat bat in reverence before the women of utah who have upheld the toiling hands bands odthe of the pioneers when tho the houra hours of necessity and privation da darkened r bened their horizon and who IB ak racoe M zo at r have praised aa race who at least row know tb t respect ct te defend fe n fi 1 a and n d the honor of tit tein p iff a T w era cra 1 ear the ire rights of their wives lind the purity of 0 their sisters says the omaha wis edere of the women of the tile latter day saints they are nothing more nor less im ahari BO proxies this either elther beatis something or nothing in the latter case aae the statement falls as 08 I 1 1 flat ai the intellect of the pari appears to b be in ill the former emergency it intimates that the women vote illegally for somebody else or that they vote more than they should did the see bed man ever hear bear of the edmunds bill by which a gentiles Ge utile immoral prostituted prostitutes concubine condu bille ha haa s one oue vote at the polls as much as the latter day saints legally wedded one wife yea more that the self confessed libertine unblushing harlot can ex arci s athe the sacred right of franchise while the man and woman wh who entered into god ordained plural marriage with moral purposes pure nave and conscientious u 9 conviction are debarred barred de senator manderson of whose manly action in resisting the abolition ot the dear right of female franchise in utah wo we have almost allowed ourselves to lose sight while tracking the bee on oil its foolish f flight and vain vagaries undoubtedly knew what he was doh doing ag he knew that the gentile woman can vote as 6 well aa as the mormon that evon the batters lat vote is tainted by the presence of the offensive scarlet robed females of certain resorts but he stuck to the ole of female franchise luand quan meme howsoever taking no stock in or heed beed of the rabid ran tings of furious fanatics and designing de mag kues |