e is no more difficulty or indelicacy in depositing a
ballot in the urn than in dropping a letter in the post office.

5. It has not marred domestic harmony. Husband and wife
frequently vote opposing tickets without disturbing the peace of
the home. Divorces are not as frequent here as in other
communities, even taking into consideration our small population.
Many applicants for divorces are from those who have a husband or
wife elsewhere, and the number of divorces granted for causes
arising in this State are comparatively few.

6. It has not resulted in unsexing women. They have not been
office-seekers. Women are generally selected for county
superintendents of the schools--offices for which they seem
particularly adapted, but they have not been applicants for other
positions.

7. Equal suffrage brings together at the ballot-box the
enlightened common sense of American manhood and the unselfish
moral sentiment of American womanhood. Both of these elements
govern a well-regulated household, and both should sway the
political destinies of the entire human family. Particularly do
we need in this new commonwealth the home influence at the
primaries and at the polls. We believe with Emerson that if all
the vices are represented in our politics, some of the virtues
should be.

In 1902 Justice Corn, of the State Supreme Court, made the following
public statement:

Women of all classes very generally vote. Bad women do not
obtrude their presence at the polls, and I do not now remember
ever to have seen a distinctively bad woman casting her vote.

Woman suffrage has no injurious effect upon the home or the
family that I have ever heard of during the twelve years I have
resided in the State. It does not take so much of women's time as
to interfere with their domestic duties, or with their church or
charitable work. It does not impair their womanliness or make
them less satisfactory as wives and mothers. They do not have
less influence, or enjoy less respect and consideration socially.
My impression is that they read the daily papers and inform
themselves upon public questions much more generally than women
elsewhere.

Woman suffrage has had the effect almost entirely to exclude
notoriously bad or immoral men from public office in the Sta