al defeat they inflict on many unworthy
candidates. Their successful opposition to the power of the
bar-rooms is a notable and praiseworthy instance of the wise use
of newly-acquired rights. The saloon-keepers used to sell
themselves to that party, or that man, who would pay the most,
and while robbing the candidates, degraded the elections and
debauched the electors. So long as it was understood that in
order to secure an election it was necessary to secure the
rum-shops, good men were left out of the field, and unscrupulous
ones were sought after as candidates. The women have already
greatly modified this state of affairs and are likely to change
it entirely in the end.

Another wonderful consequence which has attended the presence of
women at the polls, is the uniform quiet and good order on
election day. All the police that could be mustered, could not
insure half the decorum that their simple presence has everywhere
secured. No man, not even a drunken one, is willing to act like a
rowdy when he knows the women will see him. Nor is he at all
anxious to expose himself in their presence when he knows he has
drank too much. Such men quit the polls, and slink out of the
streets, to hide themselves from the eyes of the women in the
obscurity of the drinking shops.

Another fact of great importance is the uniform testimony as to
woman's success as a juror. It is true that there has been but a
limited opportunity, thus far, to establish this as a fact beyond
all doubt. But a good beginning has been made, a favorable
impression produced, and no bad results have accompanied or
followed the experiment. If our jury system of trying cases is to
be preserved, as a tolerable method of settling disputes and
administering justice in our courts, every one will admit that a
great improvement in the character of the jurors must be speedily
found. At present, a jury trial is generally regarded as a farce,
or something worse. The proof of this is seen in the fact that in
most of our courts the judges are required to try all cases
without a jury, where the parties to the action consent, and that
in a great portion of the cases the parties do consent.

Another notable observation is the rapid growth of opinion in
favor of woman suffrage among our people,