tical parties have found themselves
obliged to nominate their best men in order to obtain the support
of the women. As a business man, as a city, county, and
territorial officer, and now as Governor of Wyoming Territory, I
have seen much of the workings of woman suffrage, but I have yet
to hear of the first case of domestic discord growing out of it.
Our women nearly all vote, and since in Wyoming as elsewhere the
majority of women are good and not bad, the result is good and
not evil.

Territorial Governors are appointed, not elected. As U. S. Senator,
Mr. Warren has up to the present time (1902) repeatedly given similar
testimony. In various chapters of the present volume may be found the
strong approval of ex-U. S. Senator Joseph M. Carey.

Most of these Governors were Republicans. Hon. N. L. Andrews
(Democrat), Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives, said in
1879:

I came to this Territory in the fall of 1871, with the strongest
prejudice possible against woman suffrage. The more I have seen
of it, the less my objections have been realized, and the more it
has commended itself to my judgment and good opinion. Under all
my observations it has worked well, and has been productive of
much good. The women use the ballot with more independence and
discrimination in regard to the qualifications of candidates than
men do. If the ballot in the hand of woman compels political
parties to place their best men in nomination, this, in and of
itself, is a sufficient reason for sustaining woman suffrage.

Ex-Chief Justice Fisher, of Cheyenne, said in 1883:

I wish I could show the people who are so wonderfully exercised
on the subject of female suffrage just how it works. The women
watch the nominating conventions, and if the Republicans put a
bad man on their ticket and the Democrats a good one, the
Republican women do not hesitate a moment in scratching off the
bad and substituting the good. It is just so with the Democratic
women. I have seen the effects of female suffrage, and instead of
being a means of encouragement to fraud and corruption, it tends
greatly to purify elections and give better government.

In 1884 Attorney-General M. C. Brown said in a public letter:

My prejudices were formerly all against woman suffrage, but they
have gradually given way since it b