Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Best general reference: "Woman's Legal Right to the Ballot," in Forum...
...Woman does not need the ballot to protect her rights.- Bushnell, Woman's Suffrage, p. 29. (b) Suffrage should be conferred only on those who can enforce its decrees.- Forum...
...theory that all women or majority of women would vote for the purification of politics and society has been contradicted by actual experience in Utah.- Forum IV, 1-15. 2. Women suffragists have an exaggerated idea of the power of the ballot and legislation to remedy moral and social evils- New Englander...
...Technology senior tried to vote on Tuesday in ward 11 of Boston, but was challenged at the polls, and when he deposited his ballot was arrested and brought before the United States commissioner. The student claimed that he was of age and entitled to vote, and was discharged, pending an investigation. It is said that several others had been informed by a politician that they had a right to vote, and were intending to cast their ballots also, but were deterred by the arrest of their companion...
...mock presidential ballot at Willaims resulted as follows: Whole number of votes, 248; Harrison, 174; Cleveland, 47; Fisk, 27; majority for Harrison...