after its first
adoption; but more particularly the change effected in the minds
of the new settlers, who come to the territory with old
prejudices and fixed notions against it. Neither early education,
nor personal bias, nor party rancor, has been able to withstand
the overwhelming evidence of its good effects, and of its
elevating and purifying influence in our political and social
organization.

I must add, in conclusion, that the seventh legislature of our
territory has just closed its session of sixty days. It was
composed of more members than the earlier legislatures were,
there being thirteen in the Council and twenty-six in the House.
Many important questions came up for consideration, and a wide
field of discussion was traveled over, but not one word was at
any time spoken by any member against woman suffrage.

Hon. M. C. Brown, district-attorney for the territory, confirms the
testimony given by the judges and Governor Campbell, in a letter to
the National Suffrage Convention held in Washington in 1884, which
will be found in the pamphlet report of that year.

FOOTNOTES:

[491] Messrs. Wade, Anthony, Gratz Brown, Buckalew, Cowan, Foster,
Nesmith, Patterson, Riddle. See Vol. II., Chapter XVII.

[492] Ex-Governor Hoyt in his public speeches frequently gives this
bird's-eye view of Bright's domestic and political discussions:
"Betty, it's a shame that I should be a member of the legislature
and make laws for such a woman as you. You are a great deal better
than I am; you know a great deal more, and you would make a better
member of the Assembly than I, and you know it. I have been
thinking about it and have made up my mind that I will go to work
and do everything in my power to give you the ballot. Then you may
work out the rest in your own way." So he went over and talked with
other members of the legislature. They smiled. But he got one of
the lawyers to help him draw up a short bill, which he introduced.
It was considered and discussed. People smiled generally. There was
not much expectation that anything of that sort would be done; but
this was a shrewd fellow, who managed the party card in such a way
as to get, as he believed, enough votes to carry the measure before
it was brought to the test. I will show you a little behind the
curtain, so far as I can draw it. Thus he said to the Democrats:
"We have a Republican governor and a