"Swat 'em good an' hard! They started it!"
"That's the way men conduct their elections," Dolly went on,
smilingly. "But the women of the present day wouldn't stand it. They
would change it right away. They wouldn't continue giving the men an
excuse two or three times a year to engage in all that carnage and
debauchery for no rational reason. Do you know the sort of election
the women will hold, Warren, if they ever get a chance?"
"I'm afraid I don't," Wilks answered, dryly. "It would be hard to
imagine."
"Well, I'll tell you," Dolly said to the audience. "They will do away
with all that foolishness I've been talking about. That day at
Ridgeville a dozen carriages were hired at a big expense to bring
voters to the polls. Hundreds of dollars were spent on whisky,
doctors' bills, lawyers' fees, and fines at court. But sensible women
will wipe all that out. On election day in the future a trustworthy
man will ride from house to house on a horse or mule with the ballot-
box in his lap. It will be brought to the farmhouse door. The busy
wife will leave her churning, or sweeping, or sewing for a minute. She
will scribble her name on a ticket and drop it in the slit while she
asks the man how his family is. She may offer him a cup of hot coffee
or a snack to eat.
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