St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-02
WOMEN AT THE POLLS.
Kansas Amazons Participate in
the Battle of Ballots.

Kansas Amazons Participate in
the Battle of Ballots.
TOPEKA, Kan, April L. Elections
were held in Kansas to-day in sixty
cities of the first. second and third
class for councilmen and members of
the school boards. In nearly all the
cities no political lines were drawn, and
the battles were fought on purely local
issues. The only interest attaching to
the elections was the exercise of the Suf-
frage by the women who are permitted
under the laws of Kansas to vote for city
officers and members of the school board.
The women at Manhattan. two years
ago. captured all the city Offices, and
since that time women have admins
tered all the departments Of the city
government from the mayor down
through the council to the janitorship
of the city hall. The women had an
other ticket in the field to-day, and the
prospects are that it was elected over
the three other tickets in the field.
They had control of all the election
machinery, having appointed women
judges and clerks Of elections at
interest in the election conferred in
the candidacy of Mrs. Ii. d. Cushing,
who ran for the council on the Repub-
lican nomination. Women were also
candidates for the school board in three
wards, having been nominated by the
Republicans. Something over GOO
Women Were Registered,
but not over half of them went to the
polls. The Democrats ran a straight
male ticket, and it was elected with the
exception of the candidate from the
First ward for council, who was de-
feated by Charles Salinge, Repub-
lican. All tie women candidates
were defeated. The women of the w.
G.. L. u. took the greatest interest in
the election and spread all election tenn
perance lunch on Delaware street dur.
ing the noon hour. At EmpOria the
women were worked up to the highest
pitch of political excitement over the
candidacy of Mrs. jackson for re-elec-
ton as member of the school board.
The registration of women was so per
cent larger than year ago, and 6S7
women were enrolled on the poll books.
Most of them voted in support OF
Mrs. jackson. The issue was made on
to Mrs. Jackson to reduce the
0QiHt 0SCA oSllOOA III thO
interest of reform. Mrs. Jackson's
platform was. Good salaries for good
teachers" The returns at 9 o'clock in
dictate Mrs. Jackson's election. At To-
peka about 700 women were registered,
but less than half that number cast
their votes. They had no candidates in
the field, and were not directly inter-
ested i'll the election, the issues involved
being local to the various wards. The
women of Atchison had three candidates
in the field for election to the
school board. They made no
issue beyond that of the right
of women to equal representa-
ton on the board with the men. Early
returns indicate that they were all I'M
successful and that the straight Repub-
lican ticket was victorious. Six hundred
and more women were registered at
Wichita. About 300 of them voted. The
election there was very quiet one, no
general issue being involved. The
ladies had no candidates in the field.
Returns at this hour indicate the cleo
ton of an equal number of Democrats
and kepublicanS,