ed "the full and resolute
enforcement of law." The baser sort of politicians also disliked
the independent voting of the women. The Republicans had a normal
majority in the Territory, but they nominated for a high office a
man who was a hard drinker. The Republican women would not vote
for him, and he was defeated. Next they nominated a man who had
for years been openly living with an Indian woman and had a
family of half-breed children. Again the Republican women refused
to vote for him, and he was defeated. This brought the enmity of
the Republican "machine" upon woman suffrage. The Democratic
women showed equal independence, and incurred the hostility of
the Democratic "machine."

Between 1884 and 1888 a change of administration at Washington
led to a change in the Territorial Supreme Court. The newly
appointed Chief Justice and a majority of the new judges of the
Supreme Court [appointed by President Cleveland] were opposed to
equal suffrage, and were amenable, it is said, to the strong
pressure brought to bear upon them by all the vicious elements to
secure its repeal. A gambler who had been convicted by a jury
composed in part of women contested the sentence on the ground
that women were not legal voters, and the Supreme Court decided
that the woman suffrage bill was unconstitutional, because it had
been headed "An Act to Amend Section So and So, Chapter So and So
of the Code," instead of "An Act to Enfranchise Women.".... When
the Legislature met in 1888 it re-enacted the woman suffrage
bill, giving it a full heading, and strengthening it in every way
possible.

Washington was about to be admitted as a State, and was preparing
to hold a Constitutional Convention to frame a State
constitution. There was no doubt that the majority of the women
wanted to vote. Chief Justice Greene estimated that four-fifths
of them had voted at the last election before they were deprived
of the right. Two successive Legislatures elected by men and
women jointly had re-enacted woman suffrage (for its continuance
had been made a test question in the choice of the first
Legislature for which the women voted, and that Legislature had
been careful to insert the words "he or she" in all bills
relating to the election laws). It was admitted on all hands th