Women Suffrage Documents (Statewide): 1870, 1895, 1916-1917, 1919

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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 gentlemen 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 majority 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