Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-03-20
pErrrcoArED POLITICIANS.
Women Making Great Efforts to Get
Control of Kansas Towns.
Topeka Dispatch to New York World.


Control OF Kansas Towns.
Topeka Dispatch to New York World.
Tho granting OF municipal suffrage TO
women has proved grand success in
Kansas. II Is going 10 play more impor-
tapt part In the approaching spring eloc-
ton than ever before, and the managers OF
the Equal Suffrage association are strain
ing every nerve TO call out the largest vote
possible. Appeals to the women, especi.
in every city and town, urging
prompt registration and q demonstration
of the power Of feminine humanity. II Is
q strange fact that the increased effort on
the part Of the woman suffragists Is marked
by corresponding apathy on the pare OF
male voters. Up TO the present time there
has been no agitation, no canvassing, no
excitements over the tickets, except among
the women, who In the small towns are
preparing 10 scoop everything, and In
the cities arc devoting their attention
almost exclusively to capturing the boards
OF education. II IL claimed that the able
conduct of affairs where tho fair sex has
ruled, tho entire absence Of complaint and
the cessation of all talk Of corruption In
Office and turmoil over contracts and ap-
pointments are the causes of the apathy OF
the male population In regard to municipal
politics In the villages The example set
there is having its effect In the cities, as Is
seen In the case of Atchison.
In Arizona, where the only male officer
has been the police Judge, 1t is thought the
entire Suffragist ticket will be elected this
spring. Oskaloosa, for two years under
complete Suffragist rule, will remain the
same. The Suffragist mayor In Syracuse
has won that town over to the cause. Cot
tonwood Falls,governed by the Suifragists,
except as 10 police judge, will this year
probably elect straight ticket. Rossville, In
this county, has had satisfactory expert
nf a
and Is conceded to that party this spring.
Wherever tho experiment has been tried u
has stifled opposition, and the movement
has grown in popular favor to n marvel
lous degree. Its strength will be more APP
parent next April than ever before, and IL
Is not improbable that in n hundred towns
the municipal control will pass over to the
Suffragists, who are leaving no stone un
turned to capture the local governments,
whilo In Topeka and other cities tho
women will gain members on the school
board, to which they are directing their at
tontion chiefly.
1t is noticeable that tho women care little
for partisan politics, but select tho best men
put In nomination and voto for them. In
Topeka men will scarcely accept o nomina-
tion unless pctitloned to do SO, and before
the election the candidates of the two par
ties, especially for tho mayoralty, are sum
moned before the executive committee ol
tho Equal Suffrage association and forced
| TO make plain statement of their position
with regard to liquor Joints" and disrep-
utable houses, which finds its way to tie
press and places the candidate before the
public In his true light. This discourages
the chronic Office seeker aud disgusts the
ward politician. while business men will
not bother with city affairs.
The consequence Is that municipal poll.
tics in Kansas is being revolutionized, and
within FIVE years, at the present rate, every
| city and town in the state will be abso
lutely abandoned to the control OF thu
| women, who will then, II not sooner, ash
| for suffrage In all state elections.