in favor of, rather than against the measure.
Excellent arguments in favor of the bill in question were made by
leading members of the House--Messrs. Lea, Shepard and DeFrance.
By invitation of the legislature, that body was addressed by a
prominent member of the Denver bar, Mr. Willard Teller, the
brother of one of our U. S. senators. The hall was filled by an
interested audience to hear Mr. Teller's address, which was a
strong presentation of the principles upon which rest the claims
of American citizens to universal suffrage.

Outside the assembly halls, Governor McCook and his beautiful,
accomplished, and gracefully aggressive wife, strongly favored
the affirmative of the question at issue, while Willard Teller,
D. M. Richards and other distinguished men and women of the
territory were active friends during the contest. In the press,
the measure had a most influential support in the _Daily Colorado
Tribune_, a well-conducted Denver journal, edited by Mr. R. W.
Woodbury. Space in its columns was given to well-written articles
by contributors interested in the success of the cause, and many
able editorials appeared, embodying strong arguments in favor of
the reform, or answering the opposing bitterness and frivolity of
its contemporary the _Rocky Mountain News_. The interest in the
proposed innovation was indeed quite general throughout the
territory, but wherever the subject was discussed, in the
legislative halls, in private conversation, editorial column, or
correspondence of the press, the grounds argumentatively
traversed were the same highways and byways of reason and
absurdity which have been so often since gone over.

There was perhaps one lion in the way of establishing universal
suffrage in the West, which the eastern advocates did not fear.
It was said that our intelligent women could not be allowed to
vote, whatever the principles upon which the right might be
claimed, because in that case, the poor, degraded Chinese women
who might reach our shores, would also be admitted to the voting
list, and what then would become of our proud, Caucasian
civilization? Whether it was the thought of the poor Mongolian
slave at the polls, or some other equally terrifying vision of a
yearly visit of American women to the centre of some voting