Women's Suffrage in Howard

[W. Gray]

Almost half of the voters of Howard, who exercised the right of franchise on election day, were women. Now who says they "don't want to vote?" Election passed off very quietly. There was no noisy, blustering, bumming around among the voters, no whisky [sic] used, and no one even lost his temper to any very great extent. We are now more than ever in favor of the women being given the right of suffrage. We are told of one young married man of this city who was heard to say that if his wife insisted on voting, he should apply his number ten boot to her person till her nose bled—or words to that effect. He is an all-round kicker. The ladies of Howard have demonstrated the facts—first, that they want to vote; secondly, that they will vote; and thirdly, that they can out-'lectioneer the men, two to one.

Howard Courant, April 8, 1887

354 voters turned out