women2

"Yesterday, for the 1st time in the world, Wyoming put into practice the diversity of views people may entertain."

"Ninety-three ladies deposited their votes in the General election. Sixty four votes went to the Republicans."

"There was too much good sense in our community for any jests or sneers to be seen on such an occasion."

"There is no locality under the sun where the experiment of Female Suffrage could have been inaugurated under so favorable auspices as in Laramie City."

"As early an hour, as by the fastest time the law would permit, and as soon as the polls were declared open, Mrs. Eliza A. Swain, a lady seventy years of age, walked up and deposited her vote. It being the first here and probably the first deposited in the world by a lady in a General Election."

"As we viewed this, our mind somehow reverted to another incident in our country's history where an old gray haired man was accorded the privilege of firing the first gun upon Fort Sumter. What a contrast."

"But whatever may have been the motive of "Old Man Ruffin", that gun, as it's reverberations rolled o'er the hill and dale, sounded the death knell of human bondage in the land of the free, and that first little slip of paper which ever fell from the hand of a woman into the ballot box - That all potent talisman against oppression and wrong."