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we love and honor its flag and its constitution. Give
us an extended opportunity to demonstrate and furnish proof
that our professions are sincere and true!

We claim a share and an interest in all the greatness and
glory our country represents.

A few men argue, but their numbers are diminishing every
year, that politics are corrupt and that women will be defiled
and injured by engaging in them. Experience in Wyoming and
in other States does not sustain this view, but on the contray
it is claimed that there is less drunkeness, immorality, less
vice and crime and that there are fewer criminals according
to prison records through the presence and influence of women
in politics then formerly, and that her efforts and example
in the paths of sobriety and honor tends to purify the political
atmosphere, to elevate man and not to lower woman!

With these facts briefly referred to before you gentle-
men we feel that the most careful and scrupulous, and even the
somewhat credulous, will do no violence to their feelings or
any harm, but good to their State and Country to grant our
prayer, while we are thoroughly satisfied that the great maj-
ority of your honorable body will gladly and cheerfully do
honor to the women of Utah by keeping inviolate the pledges of
your respective parties.

Yours most sincerely and respectfully,

Mrs. Jennie C Nelson
Mrs. Kate S. Hilliard
Mrs. William Driver
Mrs. L. R. Rhodes
Mrs. E. Y. Stanford