was getting a large salary, and working for another colony. His father-in-law and partner, Mr. Flower, then circulated a petition to have the office transferred to his name, and many of the people signed the document. Others proposed to ballot for another candidate, and Mr. Albert E. Gipson was urged by some of the leading men to call a meeting, which was done. Several speeches were made, and the discussion was unusually warm. N. C. Meeker, the President, said that there were plenty of competent men who were making but little money, and they ought to have the office rather than a non-resident who was receiving $3,000 a year. He would vote for the General if he were here. As for Mr. Flower, he was a gentleman whom everybody liked, yet while he was in company with Mr. Cameron, he could not see the propriety of a change, for in either case the salary was equally divided between the two partners, which, with the General's income, gave each a yearly sum of $3,000. However, the speaker was in favor of the people choosing their Postmaster by ballot, not by petition. Saturday was the day selected for balloting, notwithstanding Mr. Flower objected to the plan. Mr. Gipson's friends proposed that the ladies should vote. This caused no little commotion in the charmed circles over which they preside. The polls were opened at one o'clock. Mr. Gipson's lieutenant, Col. C. A. White, and Mr. Drake, procured a large two-horse sleigh and started for voters. There were flags, bells, mottoes, posters and good-looking young men, and in a short time the hall was packed with women and girls, all crowding up to vote for Gipson. Then Mr. Flower sent for bells and a fast team, and gave orders for the driver to "corral" all the women who would vote, and bring them to the "front". The news spread like new cider, and in the course of two hours the scene reminded one of a political camp-meeting. Courting a girl on the Lower Arkansas was nothing to the way in which Gipson and Flower seduced the loveliness and flower of Greeley from the undarned stockings of their domestic hearthstones. We must not forget to mention another phase of the contest: Early in the morning, Miss Emily Morris sent some young girls around with tickets bearing her name, and notwithstanding the short notice, she received several votes, and then withdrew from the field. At five o'clock the perspiration fairly stood on the brows of the respective candidates. The excitement increased, and by sundown the sleighs were flying through the streets. The women were getting excited, and their enthusiasm glowed like pine knots. One of the leading merchants soon rushed up the street in a two-horse cutter, and soon returned sitting in the laps of three ladies, while the horses shot through the streets to the polls. At the polls, Mr. Gipson escorted the fair ones up stairs to vote, while the wholesale gentleman drove off for more. At dark fresh horses were procured and the excitement increased. At eight the polls were closed. Time was precious. Gipson knew of a dozen ladies up town, who must be brought at once. Marx rushed off for three girls on the east side, and so they came, young girls, servants, old ladies with silver hairs, brides, and women with young babes, until it seemed as though all the arguments that Brother Todd had ever made, were to be utterly swept away. Ten minutes to eight! Here comes Mr. Flower with his arms full of weak-minded womanhood who vote like men. Three minutes later the cutter swings around the corner at white heat, and the next minute Gipson sweeps the aisle with beautiful women, fragrant with perfume and embroidered with blushes and smiles. The moments hung in suspense. Col. White, the man of wonderful stories and bloody battles, looked anxiously for the last rose of Autumn. She came, glowing like ivory and vermilion, and just as the last moment hopped from the box, she deposited her thunderbolt. Gipson received the last vote; and then the clerks commenced counting. Gipson was defeated like a man, and Mr. Flower went home rejoicing. Gipson is a young lawyer, who recently came from Wisconsin. Considering that he is not an original colonist, it is highly creditable that he received only 80 ballots less than his opponent. Miss Morris had 19 votes. The lesson of this election is, that women can and will vote at a moment's notice. General Cameron has eloquently denounced the women who want to vote, yet his entire family marched up to the jaws of the ballot box only two days ago. Last summer a young man fairly scorned the arguments of Mill and Beecher; on Saturday he took his wife to the polls and told her to do her duty. In addition to the views of Chapin and Curtis, I believe that if the Republican party only needed two votes to carry New York, Mr. Greeley would take his wife and daughter to the polls on a litter, rather than print a Democratic majority in the columns of the great Tribune. Chip Johnson. LIST OF DOCUMENTS AND NEWSPAPERS. DOCUMENTS IN THE UNION COLONY SAFE, IN THE BASEMENT OF THE CITY HALL OF GREELEY.1 BOUND VOLUMES. Proceedings of the Union Colony Association, December 4, 1869-March 16, 1870. Record Book No. 1 of the Executive Committee, April 21, 1870-October 4, 1870. Record Book No. 3 of the Executive Committee, July 5, 1871October 29, 1872. Record Book No. 4 of the Executive Committee, November 5, 1872-March 4, 1882. Cash book, Union Colony No. 1, 1871. Journal, 1870-1872. Ledger, 1870-1884. Ledger, 1877-1881. List of Complete and Partial Payments, Union Colony No. 1. Expense Book, 1870-1872. Treasurer's Account Book, 1873-1883. Order Book, 1882-1886. Water Tax Account Book, 1870-1873. Receipt Book, 1881. Receipt Book, 1881-1882. Record of Deeds and Mortgages, 1880-1882. Enlargement Tax Record, Ditch No. 3, 1872-1873. Deed Record, 1871. Deed Record, September 26, 1871-March 4, 1873. Deed Book, 1871. Record of Deeds Granted, 1870-1871. Register of Lots and Lands located and deeded, 1871-1891. 1 This list has been prepared by Dr. Thomas M. Marshall. Land Accounts, 1870-1872. Record of Lands sold at Auction, July 10, 1871. Check Book, First National Bank, Greeley, 1888. List of Members, Union Colony No. 1. List of Members with Record of Payments by the Colony for Labor, mainly in 1872. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. A bundle containing deeds, 1870-1881; certificate of renewal of the charter of the Union Colony, 1890; a few letters of 1872; and miscellaneous papers. A bundle of deeds, 1871-1878, and miscellaneous papers. DOCUMENTS IN THE COLONY ROOM OF THE GREELEY PUBLIC LIBRARY. Answers to the Colony Questionaire, 1869-1870. Two shelves of miscellaneous papers, including deeds and let ters. NEWSPAPERS. The Daily Rocky Mountain News. Published in Denver by William N. Byers and John L. Dailey. Dailey sold out to Byers in November, 1870. The paper was established in 1859 by Byers who was its editor during the period of the colony movement. It contains much information on the colonies. Its correspondent W. R. T. was W. R. Thomas. A complete file of the paper is preserved by the State Historical and Natural History Society in Denver. The Daily Colorado Tribune. Published in Denver by R. W. Woodbury and John Walker. It was established in 1867. The name of the paper was changed to The Denver Tribune on January 20, 1871. There |