Women -- Suffrage -- History; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History; Women's rights -- History; Women's rights -- United States -- History
I know women who have exercised the fullest political rights for
a period of more than twenty years. They have taken the deepest
interest in the political affairs of the Territory and young
State. Neither in their homes nor in public places have they lost
one womanly quality; but their minds have broadened and they
have become more influential in the community in which they live.
During these years I have never heard of any unhappiness brought
into the home on account of women's exercising their political
rights. A fair and unbiased test of this question has been made
by the people of Wyoming, and no unprejudiced man or woman who
has seen its workings, can now raise a single honest objection.
Where women have voted, the family relation has not been
destroyed, men have loved them none the less, the mountains have
not been shaken from their foundations, nor have social
earthquakes or political convulsions taken place....
In order that women shall be more influential citizens of the
State and better qualified to raise noble men and women to fight
the battles of life, and to carry out the true purpose of this
republic, they must possess the full rights of citizenship.
At the close of his speech the Senator was presented with a large
basket of roses from the delegates.
Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake (N. Y.) spoke on The Right of a Citizen to
a Trial by a Jury of His Peers, showing that women never have
possessed this right; that in many criminal cases, such as seduction
and infanticide, women could better understand the temptations than
could men; that the feminine heart, the maternal influence, are needed
in the court-room as well as in the home. Mrs. Lida A. Meriwether
(Tenn.) spoke in a keen, sarcastic but humorous manner of The Silent
Seven, "the legally mute"--minors, aliens, paupers, criminals,
lunatics, idiots and women.
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