and announced himself a candidate for Governor. He was overwhelmingly
defeated at the primaries and his comment was: "The women and the
preachers did it."

[183] The following women besides those mentioned have held office in
the association since 1900: Mesdames Tex Armstrong, Anna B. Cade, A.
O. Critchett, John Davis, Walter L. Fordtran, Mary Herndon Gray,
Goodrich Jones, Lindley Miller Keasbey, Helen Moore, Elizabeth
Stribling Maury, Jane Yelvington McCallum, Sterling Myer, Elizabeth
Herndon, Dwight Edward Potter, Ella Pomeroy, E. B. Reppert, L. E.
Walker, Robert Aeneas Watt; Misses Mary Fowler Bornefield, Irelene
DeWitt, Marin B. Fenwick, Kate Hunter, A. A. Stuart, Hettie D. M.
Wallis.

CHAPTER XLIII.

UTAH.[184]

The results of equal suffrage in Utah for fifty years--1870-1920--with
an unavoidable interim of eight years, have demonstrated the sanity
and poise of women in the exercise of their franchise. The Mormon
women had had long training, for from the founding of their church by
Joseph Smith in 1830 they had a vote in its affairs. Although the
Territory of Wyoming was the first to give the suffrage to women--in
November, 1869--the Legislature of Utah followed in January, 1870, and
the bill was signed by Governor S. A. Mann February 12. Women voted at
the regular election the next August and there was no election in
Wyoming until September, so those of Utah had the distinction of being
the pioneer women voters in the United States and there were over five
times as many women in Utah as in Wyoming. The story of how their
suffrage was taken away by an Act of Congress in 1887 and how it was
restored in full by the men of Utah when they made their constitution
for statehood in 1895 and adopted it by a vote of ten to one is
related in detail in Volume IV of the History of Woman Suffrage. The
women have voted since then in large numbers, filled many offices and
been a recognized political influence for the benefit of the State.

The large and active Territorial Woman Suffrage Association held
annual conventions until after it succeeded in gaining the franchise.
In 1899, during a visit of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt to Salt Lake City,
a meeting was called and steps taken to form a Utah Council of Women
to assist the suffrage movement in other States and Mrs. Emily S.
Richards was made president. This Council, composed of Mormons and
non-Mormons, continued in existence for twenty years. For the first
ten year