the favorable testimony from Utah, given
by Mormons and Gentiles alike.

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WYOMING.

Gov. John A. Campbell was in office when the woman suffrage law was
passed. In 1871 he said in his message to the Territorial Legislature:

There is upon our statute book "an Act granting to the women of
Wyoming Territory the right of suffrage," which has now been in
force two years. It is simple justice to say that the women
entering, for the first time in the history of the country, upon
these new and untried duties, have conducted themselves in every
respect with as much tact, sound judgment, and good sense, as
men.

In 1873 he said: "Two years more of observation of the practical
working of the system have only served to deepen my conviction that
what we, in this Territory, have done, has been well done; and that
our system of impartial suffrage is an unqualified success."

Governor Thayer, who succeeded Campbell, said in his message:

Woman suffrage has now been in practical operation in our
Territory for six years, and has, during the time, increased in
popularity and in the confidence of the people. In my judgment
the results have been beneficial, and its influence favorable to
the best interests of the community.

Governor Hoyt, who succeeded Thayer, said in 1882:

Under woman suffrage we have better laws, better officers, better
institutions, better morals, and a higher social condition in
general, than could otherwise exist. Not one of the predicted
evils, such as loss of native delicacy and disturbance of home
relations, has followed in its train.

Later he said in a public address: "The great body of our women, and
the best of them, have accepted the elective franchise as a precious
boon and exercise it as a patriotic duty--in a word, after many years
of happy experience, woman suffrage is so thoroughly rooted and
established in the minds and hearts of the people that, among them
all, no voice is ever uplifted in protest against or in question of
it."

Governor Hale, who was next in this office, expressed himself
repeatedly to the same effect.

Governor Warren, who succeeded Hale, said in a letter to Horace G.
Wadlin, Esq., of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, in 1885:

Our women consider much more carefully than our men the character
of candidates, and both poli