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MCKINLEY the CHOICE OF THE WOMEN OF THE ÜNITEQ STATES. KKTI IINS NOT ALL IN YBT. Vrohlbiili.u Running "trou XVHH the Ladla. The ladies' vote has attracted national attention this campaign. It hai called forth the vote of many ladiea who perhap would never care to go to the polls to cast a vote. The vote was polled by postal cards and letters sant to the Poatum Cereal Food Coffee Co., of Bttle Creek Mich., whoie office force have faithfully complied and reported from time to time the progresa of tha roto. The deepest interest is hown by th letters and poitals, great numbri of which expres gratitude for thig act which is surtly a step towardi thorealization of some practical plan under which one half of our citizem, (female though they may be) who are now denied the electlve franchise, can havo the right to say how and by whom their laws shall be made, their country jfOTerned and their sons and dauhtert protected. An extract from a letter from a lady in Kennebunk,Maine,expresses "thankg for an opportunity to vota : when woman ha the opportunity and an incentive to engace her mind in affairs which pertain to the welfare and prosperlty of her people aDd country, the beings the brings into existence will be improved, elevated, and endowed with the fire of true statesmanship by the mlnd of her mother during the prenatal itato. Have your statesman born with a great, clear and patriotic mind, Sir." That keynote that will ring on eternally until the theory becomes a fact. It is time that the keen, clean mind of woman was sought in affairs of state. WOMEN'S VOTE TO DATB. 5 S o e ï Ui 5 S g - f j :j Connecticut 106 7 5 Illinois 394 71 " 15 ""é Indiana 796 220 8 M IS {owa 2S1 7; 2 9 Kansas 188 16 10 1 Massachusetts.... 365 18 2 1 Michigan 974 356 8 35 ïl Minnesota 84 12 2 3 Missouri 57 40 4 Nebraska 77 ( New York 695 79 "ï 113 1 Ohlo 1354 220 1 28 14 Pennsylvanla.... 212 20 6 ïi Wlsconsin 157 6 1 II ScatterlnK irom other state.... 215 48 2 50 Total 5S67 1196 19 S65 68 The comple vote will be given Nov. llth by which time it is expected that all votes will be in. It is true that this national vote by the ladies brings into promirence the mauufacturers whose office is used to compile and report it. Tho Postum Co. however have already a wide reputation as the originators of a unique article of public noed, in the way of thelr cereal or grain coffee which is used by mauy people whoeannotdigestcommon coffee. Newspaper men, authora, actors, business men professors, nerroui women and even the children flnd in Postum food coffee a delicious breakfast beverage that is made so largely from the gluten and phosphates of wbest that a direct result in nervout energj is found in its use, as the food elementa go directly to rebuild the lost gray matter in the nerve centres. These facts are facts and this justly famed American product has made a profound impression on people of all classes. This explanation is given for thoso who may not be familiar with the com pany, having the woman's voto in charge.