s now, for they know women love beauty.

The tone of political conventions has improved since suffrage was
granted to women. So has the character of the candidates....
There is no character-builder like responsibility. Every woman's
club in the State has been turned into a study club, and the
women are examining public questions for themselves. This is one
of the best results of equal suffrage.

When women obtained the ballot they wanted to know about public
affairs, and so they asked their husbands at home (every woman
wants to believe that her husband knows everything), and the
husbands had to inform themselves in order to answer their wives'
questions. Equal suffrage has not only educated women and
elevated the primaries, but it has given back to the State the
services of her best men, large numbers of whom had got into the
habit of neglecting their political duties....

Mrs. Emmeline B. Wells said in describing the conditions in Utah:

After the ballot was given to women the men soon came to us and
asked us to help them. We divided on party lines but not rigidly
so. We helped not only the good men and women of our own party,
but those of the other. If they put up a Republican or a Democrat
who is not fit for the position, the women vote against him. In
all the work I do for the Republicans, I never denounce the
Democrats....

This year the men were more willing to have us go to the
primaries than we were to go. Even the women who had not wished
for suffrage voted. I do not mind going to the primaries. I am
not afraid of men--not the least in the world. I have often been
on committees with men. I don't think it has hurt me at all, and
I have learned a great deal. They have always been very good to
me. We must stand up for the men. We could not do without them.
Certainly we could not have settled Utah without them. They built
the bridges and killed the bears; but I think the women worked
just as hard, in their way....

When Mrs. Mell C. Woods came forward to speak for Idaho the audience
arose and received her with cheers and the waving of handkerchiefs.
She brought letters of greeting from most of the women's clubs of
that State, and in a long and beautiful address she said:

With her head pillowed in the lap of the North, her feet resting
in the o