The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-16

Some Features of the Kansas Election.
The aggregate result of the election in Kansas
upon the negro suffrage and female suffrage
amendment is as follows:-For negro suffrage,
5995; against negro suffrage, 13, $685. for female
suffrage, 5043; against female suffrage, l3, 49S.
At the same time an amendment was sub
mitted disfranchsing disloyal persons, and
adopted by vote of 9253 in its favor to 1908
against it, Among the curious features of the
election is the choice of Colonel Jennison, the
notorious 'jayhawker' and "red-leg," as a
representative from Leavenworth, the chief
Democratic stronghold in the State. The Mis-
souri, radicals are enjoying good deal of quiet
sarcasm at the expense of their Democratic
brethren over this result, as Jennison is ex-
tremely unpopular with the Missouri Rebels
on account of divers and sundry visits he
made in that State, at the head of his faithful
retainers, during the war, resulting, it is
charged, in an extensive exodus of Rebel
stock, such as valuable horses, mules, ETC.,
into Kansas. We find the following pleasant
illusions to the affair in the Kansas City (Mo.)
Journal, staunch radical paper, published in
the immediate vicinags of Jennson's most
extensive achievements
"'Politcs make strange bed fellows, Jen-
nison, the red Leg, is elected to the Legisla-
ture from the Democratic city of Leavenworth
Why don't the Advertiser howl with delight at
this defeat of the radicals?
DEMocRATIo MASS MEETING.-The Demo-
meeting at the Court house to. night over the
the Legislature, and the defeat of good radi
cal. Their cup of happiness is full Let all
Missourtans turn out"
Tbara Ia an arroneous imnrassion ,,ravoiI
ing to the effect that Kansas is settled mainly
with emigrants from the NeV England States.
The early free State settlers were in good
part from New England, and that element is
still prominent in directing the career of ths
young State; but the majority of the settlers
are Western and Southern men, Robinson,
her first Governor, and Pomeroy, one of her
first, and still remaining, Senators, were Mas
sachusetts men. Conway, her first member
of Congress, was a man of Southern birth;
Lane was from Indiana; and Carney and Craw-
ford, her successive Governors, are Western
men; Wilder and Clark, successors of Conway
in the House, were the former from New
York, the latter from Massachusetts,.
The later emigration to the State has
nois, and Indiana. The people of the
State are very strongly Republican, as opposed
TO anything that bears the name of Demo-
cracy, but they are very far from being up to
the mark of impartial suffrage. Many of the
Republicans are from the old slave States, and
cherish prejudice against the negro which it
is difficult to eradicate. There has been,
however, great progress in the public senti-
ment of the State. It was at one time as
much as advanced Republicans could do to
prevent the adoption of the infamous ''black-
law" system, which aimed at the total exclu-
sion of colored people from the State, after the
then fashion of Indiana and Illinois. "free
white" State was the demand of a large ele-
ment of the Free-State party, and it was only
defeated by the boldness and persistenoy of
few determined and influential leaders, who
aimed at a higher and better destiny for the
State, and happily achieved it.
We make these explanations to show that
those who expected Kansas to take more
advanced position upon the suffrage question
than that of the mass of the party elsewhere,
calculated upon false estimate of the politi-
cal character of her people.
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