Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1882 — How She Voted. [ARTICLE]

How She Voted.

A very amusing comment upon a certain phase of the woman’s suffrage question is told by one of the tellers at the last Boston city election, and vouched for by him as absolutely true. A woman well known in strong-minded circles, came to the polls, vote in band. Upon being asked her name, she hesitated a little, dJht concluded upon the whole to give it. She seemed to have similar misgivings about replying to an equally impertinent question iu regard to her place of residence, but in this matter also she decided to yield. The name being checked upon the list, the voter was told to deposit her ballot, which, after examining the ballot-box with some curiosity, she did. She stood an instant in an attitude of expectancy and then asked: , “Is that all?” | “Yes, madam,” answered the teller. “Then, if that is all,” she asked with some asperity, “why do you men make such a fuss about it?” i The tide of voters kept waiting by her delay became at this morpent toe strong for her, and she was swept forward with her question unanswered. She lingered about, liowevei*, and in the first lull came back to the ballot-box. j “If you please,” she said to the teller, “I’d like to see that vote I put in there.” . \ “But you cannot,” said he, “a vote can’t be taken put of the box.” , “But I want to see it vexy much,” she persisted. ! “What do you want of it, madamP” he asked politely. “Ob,” was the naive answer, “I want to see who I voted for.” x