med Utah to be a
State, with a constitution which does not discriminate against
women. With Utah and Wyoming we have two States coming into the
Union with the principle of equal rights to women guaranteed by
their constitutions.

On November 3 the men of Idaho declared in favor of woman
suffrage, and for the first time in the history of judicial
decisions upon the enlargement of women's rights, civil and
political, a Supreme Court gave a broad interpretation of the
constitution. The Supreme Court of Idaho--Isaac N. Sullivan,
Joseph W. Huston, John T. Morgan--unanimously decided that the
amendment was carried constitutionally. This decision is the more
remarkable because the Court might as easily have declared that
the constitution requires amendments to receive a majority of the
total vote cast at the election, instead of a majority of the
votes cast on the amendment itself. By the former construction it
would have been lost, notwithstanding two to one of all who
expressed an opinion were in favor.

If anyone will study the history of our woman suffrage movement
since the days of reconstruction and the adoption of the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Federal
Constitution--taking the decisions of the Supreme Court of the
United States in the cases of Mrs. Myra Bradwell for the
protection of her civil rights; of Mrs. Virginia L. Minor for the
protection of her political rights; of the law granting Municipal
Suffrage to women in Michigan; on giving women the right to vote
for County School Commissioners in New York, and various other
decisions--he will find that in every case the courts have put
the narrowest possible construction upon the spirit and the
letter of the constitution. The Judges of Idaho did themselves
the honor to make a decision in direct opposition to judicial
precedent and prejudice. The Idaho victory is a great credit not
only to the majority of men who voted for the amendment, but to
the three Judges who made this broad and just decision.

After sketching the situation in California, and relating the part
taken by the National Association in these two campaigns, she
concluded:

In every county which was properly organized, with a committee in
every precinct, who visited every voter and distributed leaflets
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