The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-24
THE TRIUMPH or SUSANNA.
The Worlds Only Female Mayor. and How
She Runs IEer Town.

| From tho New York Sun.
| All the male world wondered and all the
female world hurrahed when Susanna Medora
| Setter was elected lord mayor of Argonia, Kan
Ever since the election the lady mayor has been the
pride and delight of her sex, wherever the glorious
news was carried that woman's rights had finally
| prevailed over the prejudice of men Susan H.
Anthony and the persistent sisterhood who have for
a century or more made congressman and national
| committeeman feel like Caligulas, sounded the
| timbrel III every known tongue and Belya
| Lockwood furnished up her best gown for a
new nomination in 1885 From Grcenlands icy
| mountains to C3rca's yellow strand the hcart OF
| woman throbbed under the new hope held quito the
sex. Even the yelled odalesques i'll the harems as
| Byzantinm snuggled notes TO Sunset Cox convey
ing their rapture that tie star Of woman's emplra
had risen In the west The politicians began to
cast about and take account of the pull" these
new forces would have in politics. and the prob
lem OF Chinese labor and Irish votes seemed solved.
Medora's election w0s not the well-pondered resp
| luton Of social reformers, implying manly repen-
lance 0nd regeneration II was the joke of group
Of the leading "boya' Of the town. Jack Dashero
| who Is known MS the toughest man In the town
| ship, named III corn, in a hilarious company OF
| sports after the other nominees had been put in
! nomination days before. The "boys' laughed and
| took their coats Off Medore's husband was par.
| ayzed and tried to stop the "nonsense," but the
boys liked the notion better the more they thought
Of IT, END Medora came in at the head of the poll.
looked on in wonder Argonia settled down to a
mothery administration OF Its civic affairs and the
Logs looked forward to no end Of fun.
But Medora lad no notion of merely playing
mayor She took her place ut the executive desk
every day with her sewing, and, regardless Of her
back hair or the set Of her hustle, gave her immor-
tai mind 10 the expedition Of aiairg 1t took the
boys but short time to find out that Susanna
bledore was no respecter Of pulls" Equal and
exact justice was meted out TO all alike. The boys
soon found that gynecocracy was infinitely less
indulgent to their pleasant vices than tho
government of men, One by one tho
pastimes of the town were restricted No mora
'poker" Of an evening No diversions in the lurid
"leg" shows that demoralzo the towns laxly adj
rninigtered by men. No ''samping'' by the city
servants no bars for love or license Indeed,
Susanna Medora has reached in the west the Illus
trlous rank of Mayor Hewitt ia the east. She has
rot attained equal address with her PEN but she
vanquishod the men, Argonia hasn't known q
street fracas or emeute since she assumed the
civic staff The girls no longer fiirt, end the young
men no longer "mash." Tie town moves
on, socially and ciyicaliy with the de-
cornm Of a young ladies' seminary. Jack
Dasher found his occupation of "tough'
gone. His saloon In spite of his fundamentally In
nominating Susanna Medora, has been forced to
close It's doors He proposed to compromise on
"crab apple CIDER but the stern Susanna would
not have II. He begged that the boys might amuse
themselves in a loft on the outskirts in 'Toser for
fun, but she denied Now the boys are all eSiies.
Argonia knows lts old-time rackets aud raeketeers
no more. They have all emigratod to Kansas city,
which emuates Chicago In energy, and excels It in
wlckcdness There they are rcoiting their woes 20
the wicked reporters and prophesying salt and
ashes to Arsona and It's peitcoated mayor.
The young emperor of China viii not be
msrricd untl next year, but meantime Is collecting
presents for his bride nuong which are 200 ounces
OF gold f0000 OF silver, gold ten SERVICE
Consisting Of teapot and one cup with III, one sill
yer SER i.e two siYer wash basins LOCO pieces Of
satin, twenty horses with complete tappings
twenty hores without tgapplngs, and twenty sad
dies for pRek horses aud mules.