ntion must be given at the primaries to
select the purest of material, by both parties, if they would
gain the female vote."

Charles J. Woodbury visited Washington about this time. In a
letter to the N. Y. _Evening Post_, he said: "Whatever may be the
vicissitudes of woman suffrage in Washington Territory in the
future, it should now be put on record that at the election, Nov.
4, 1884, nine-tenths of its adult female population availed
themselves of the right to vote with a hearty enthusiasm."

He goes on to say that he arrived in Seattle on Sunday, and was
surprised at the quiet and order he found prevailing, and at the
general Sunday closing of the places of business: "Even the bars
of the hotels were closed; and this was the worst town in the
Territory when I first saw it. Now its uproarious theaters,
dance-houses, squaw-brothels and Sunday fights are things of the
past. Not a gambling house exists."

Women served on juries, and meted out the full penalty of the law
to gamblers and keepers of disorderly houses. The Chief Justice
of the Territory was the Hon. Roger S. Greene, a cousin of U. S.
Senator Hoar, a man of high character and integrity, and a
magistrate celebrated throughout the Northwest for his resolute
and courageous resistance to lynch law. In his charge to the
grand jury at Port Townsend, August, 1884, he said:

"The opponents of woman suffrage in this Territory are found
allied with a solid phalanx of gamblers, prostitutes, pimps, and
drunkard-makers--a phalanx composed of all in each of those
classes who know the interest of the class and vote according to
it."

In his charge to another grand jury later, Chief Justice Greene
said:

"Twelve terms of court, ladies and gentlemen, I have now held, in
which women have served as grand and petit jurors, and it is
certainly a fact beyond dispute that no other twelve terms so
salutary for restraint of crime have ever been held in this
Territory. For fifteen years I have been trying to do what a
judge ought, but have never till the last six months felt
underneath and around me, in the degree that every judge has a
right to feel it, the upbuoying might of the people in the line
of full and resolute enforcement of the law."

Naturally, the vicious elements dislik