Mrs.
Peckham's opponent obtained but 23 majority in a poll of 349. It
is evident from the vote yesterday, that if they have but a fair
show, women will at the next election be successful as candidates
for the school committee. Had the intelligent ladies of the fifth
ward been allowed to vote, Mrs. Doyle would have led even the
gubernatorial vote of that ward.

The _Providence Journal_ makes the following comment:

We are sorry to observe that the two estimable and admirably
qualified ladies whose names were presented for school committee
in this city, failed of success. Their influence in official
connection with the schools could not have been other than
salutary. The treatment accorded Mrs. Doyle in the fifth ward was
wofully shabby. Without her solicitation, the Republican caucus
unanimously nominated her for a member of the school committee.
Being a novice in political proceedings, she naturally enough
supposed that the party that desired her services so much as to
place her in nomination, would make provision for electing their
candidate. There was not gallantry enough in the ward, however,
for that duty, and it was not until 11 o'clock on election day
that any tickets bearing the name of Mrs. Doyle were to be found
in the ward-room; but a ticket with the names of two men was on
hand at sunrise, and the time lost in procuring tickets for the
regular nominee proved fatal to her success. Mrs. Doyle has now
learned something of the ways of politicians, and is not likely
to put her trust again in the faithfulness of ward committees.

At a meeting of the State association, held in Providence, on
Thursday, May 18, 1871, the following preamble and resolutions
were, after a full and earnest discussion, unanimously adopted:

WHEREAS, It is claimed, in opposition to the demand that the
elective franchise shall be given to women, that they are
represented in the government by men, so that they do not need
the ballot for their protection, inasmuch as all their rights are
secured to them by the interest of these men in their welfare;
and, whereas, in February last, in view of the appalling facts
frequently coming to our notice, consequent upon the
mismanagement of poor-houses and asylums for the insane, this
association did earnestly petition our State legislatu