r suffrage if their wives appreciate
its importance. (2) Men without family ties, and especially
if they have associated with a bad class of women, will vote
against it. (3) Boys who have just reached their majority
will vote against it more uniformly than any other class of
men. We were treated with the utmost respect by all except
the last class. Destitute of experience, and big with their
own importance, these young sovereigns will speak to a woman
twice their years with a flippancy which the most ignorant
foreigner of mature age would not use, and I have to-day
been tempted to believe that no one is fitted to exercise
the American franchise under twenty-five years of age.

The main objection which I heard repeatedly urged was, women
do not want to vote. This seems to be the great
stumbling-block to our brethren. Men were continually saying
that their wives told them not to vote for woman suffrage.
If we are defeated this time I know we can succeed in the
next campaign, or just as soon as we can educate enough
prominent women up to the point of coming out plainly on the
subject. Then all men, or all but the vicious men who always
vote against every good thing, will give in right away.

Lucy Stone, in a letter to the _Woman's Journal_ describes
similar scenes enacted that day in Denver; speaks of the order
and quiet prevailing at the polls, of the flowers on all the
tables, and, in spite of the strangeness of the occasion, of the
presence of women as evidently a new and beneficent element
there. Rev. Dr. Ellis of the Baptist Church, who, on the Sunday
before had preached from the text, "Help those Women," was using
his influence to convert those doubtful or opposed. Rev. Mr.
Bliss, who had declared in his pulpit that "the only two women
the Bible mentioned as having meddled in politics were Jezebel
and Herodias," was there also, to warn men not to vote for equal
rights for women. At other polls I saw colored men, once slaves,
electioneering and voting against the rights of women. When
remonstrated with, one said: "We want the women at home cooking
our dinners." A shrewd colored woman asked whether they had
provided any dinner to cook, and add