The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-04-04
THE FAIR VOTER.
She Doesn't Exercise Her Priv.
ilege Very Numsrously
WOMEN AT THE POLLS In KANSAS.


A Campaign for Four Candidates That
Only Planned Out One Suro-ss- neil
dents OF the Observation-Disclosures Get
fn Their Work at Chicago and M iwau-
kee-The or Year Rather Rough on the
Republicans. .s, h...--o,
Topeka, Kas, April 2. Elections were
held in Kansas yesterday in the sixty cities
Of the first, second and third class for coun-
cilmen and members of the school hoard In
nearly all the CT ties no political lines were
drawn, and the battles were fought on
purely local issues The only interest at
taching to the elections was the exercise Of
the suffrage by the women, who are per.
mitted under the laws of Kansas to vote for
city officers and members Of the school
board. At Manhattan, where the women
captured all the city Offices two years ago.
they had another ticket In the field yester-
day, and the prospects are that 1t was
elected over the three other tickets In this
city little interest was manifested outside of
one ward. Out of a total registration OF
about 600 women voters only about 425
vvted.
Women Beaten at Atchison.
At Atchison the result was disastrous to
the women, who started out to capture four
members Of the school board. One woman
candidate is elected-Miss Lydia Stockwell
but she had no opposition Miss Stock
well was, however, numerically scratched,
many men preferring to vote blank rather
than for woman. At Leavenworth the
Democrats failed to nominate any women,
while the Republican ticket named four. The
Democratic ticket is elected with the excep-
ton, possibly, of one councilman.
Out Against Prohibition.
At Emporia over go women voted, but
their votes were divided among the candi-
dates like that Of the men. Only one woman
was candidate-Mrs. G. r. jackson. She
was elected, although opposed by many Of
her sex, who supported an anti-Prohibition-
ist At Newton the feminine vote was less
than one-half the vote of one year ago. At
Lawrence about 200 women voted, but little
interest was manifested.
A Candidates Wife Goes Hustling.
So intense was the feeling in Topeka, that
Mrs. Lull, wife of one of the candidates for
councilman, went out in her carriage early
in the morning and canvassed from house to
house for votes for her husband Negro
women and men were sent out with car
riages to solicit white and colored voters to
60 to the pol s and help their candidate. At
the residence of prominent citizen buxom
negro woman appeared before breakfast was
over and demanded to know how the lady of
the house proposed to vote She was told
that it was 'none of her business" and asked
to depart.
Had Little Tongue-Banging.
At < o'clock a crowd Of negro men and
women were congregated at one of the poll
ing places engaged in a general war Of
words over their respective candidates. One
declared that certain candidate was
drunkard. This aroused 20O-pound negro
woman, who denounced the statement as a
- lie. Very little electioneering was done
by women in other wards of the city, due
probably to the publication of card by the
Equal Suffrage association in the morning
advising against it.
Elected n Colored Woman.
At Salina the election was an animated
one. The female suffragists had nominated
a woman candidate for the school board
from two wards. A colored woman was run
by the anti-suffragists. The suffragists were
defeated and the colored woman elected by
an overwhelming majority. At Hiawatha
three women were elected to the school
board, but at Wellington the three women
Candidates were showed under