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As Dolly paused at this point there was great laughter a her hands

"Warren Wilks," Dolly resumed, with a pleased smile, "drew a funny picture just now of an election under the new idea You all laughed heartily when he spoke of there being soplus about the polls that bashful men would be afraid to vote But,all that up Listen to me, and I'll tell you what one of your elections really looks like I've seen one, and that was enough for eville, where only two hundred votes have ever been polled, there were at the last county election fully a hundred drunk frohts that day; three men were cut and two shot The price of a vote was a drink of whisky, but a voter seldom closed a trade till he had ten in hih to carry hi and loud] "Go it, Miss Dolly! You've got 'eood an' hard! They started it!"

"That's the way ly "But the woe it right away They wouldn't continue giving the e in all that carnage and debauchery for no rational reason Do you know the sort of election the woet a chance?"

"I'm afraid I don't," Wilks answered, dryly "It would be hard to iine"

"Well, I'll tell you," Dolly said to the audience "They will do aith 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 ipe all that out On election day in the future a trustworthy man will ride from house to house on a horse or ht to the far, 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 hio to the back door and call her husband or sons in fro, and then the polls of that election will be closed as far as she is concerned"