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Yet women attend primary meetings in the various precincts and are chosen as delegates.
They are also members of county and territorial central committees, and are thus gaining practical political experience, and preparing themselves for positions of trust. "In 1882 a convention was held to frame a constitution to be submitted to the people and presented to the Congress of the United States.
Women were delegates to this convention, and took part in all its deliberations, and were appointed to act on committees with equal privileges.
It is the first instance on record, I think, where women have been members and taken an active part in a constitutional convention. "Much has been said and written, and justly, too, of suffrage for women in Wyoming; but, in my humble opinion, had Utah stood on the same ground as Wyoming, and women been eligible to office, as they are in that Territory, they would, ere this, have been elected to the legislative Assembly of Utah. "It is currently reported that Mormon women vote as they are told by their husbands.
I most emphatically deny the assertion.
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