New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-10
r1r yOuAN VOTE IN KANSAS.

Pe4urns from the Kansas elections are slow IL
seems impossible to get word from Ed2erVoh'
Westward or any of the other enterprIsing young
towns which have been enjoying the pieasins'
ei,ken rule of women. This we regret, Dut the
renorts from these places will, we suppose come
in cood time. No doubt the election officers are
busv at spring housekeeping and perhaps nave
NOT vet stopped to count the ballots. line report
nubshed in O Chicago paper that the poll clerks
nj Westward had used the opposition mems pailots
IN do I'M their front hair on is probably silly
canard.
The returns from the large Kansas cities are,
however in. and perhaps are, on the WHOLE gfati-
fvinc tn the advocates Of woman suffrage III lie
Stote though as usual the carper will find Things
at which 70 carp With the exceptions oil hahsas
CITY Topeka and Leavenworth, what Is colby
called the woman vote was light. This may DC
laroelv accounted for, probably, by the TACT tha1
n miscbieyous roorback was put forth by the men
that all persons voting would be Obliged 10 an
nornco their ages in loud voice atSthe momenU
of casting his or her ballot This was, OF course
q wilfuI lie. but it naturally deferred large
number Of women from voting. In connection WIN
this point we may note the fact that statiS1ic'ns
will find matter Of curious interest In the ages vi
the women who registered to vote. or these $50
IL is stated exactly 90 per cent were twehtS-ohe
- ot ooo Q ner cent were between the years
of soventv-dve and IO2, leaving only per cent
,or tho oes above twenty.one and under seventy
five These facts, if they be facts, are curlous
and may be valuable
Tho greatest interest among the women was
manifested in Topeka, where $500 voted OUT ol Il
total registration of 2,740. The majority OIL ,ie
AaO wcre kent away from the election by the iac'
that they had received invitation, the ldea ha'-
inc in some way got abroad that ADMISSION 70 'h'
noIls would be strictly by card. As one woman
mt IL the next day: "If I'd known the plasuy
thing was a surprise party, I'd have gone ana
nut in one of the funny little slips OF paper any
how But it is in the case OF lopeKa UuaC .i'
aforementioned carper will find scope lot hlS
disrraceful efforts Coffran was the Democra"c
candidate for Mayor-Quinton the kepuplican
nominee for the same office. The majority Oh Une
white women intended to vote for Qullton' puo
carly in the day it was discovered that tne soiiu
colored women's vote was being cast fOr hill do
was probably only natural considering his poli'lcS,
wbereunon the white women turned and voted and
worked for Coifran, with the result that ne was
elected by 200 plurality. This Is the more sur
prising when it is known that Qulnton Is tan'
handsome man. with a dropping mustache, while
COffran IS SnOFb anu pldih-ioonAhS' 49,"
only a struggling chn-whisker OF course, no
one can saw that this voting Of the white women
for Coffran simply because their colored sisters
rallied around Quinton was not highly reprehensi-
BILE. Women, after they have entered politics.
must not be guilty of such weakness. Anything
so foolish as that would scarcely be excusaoie IN
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men voters.
The dispatch from which we have gathered
many of our facts closes with remark which we
do not altogether understand. In speaking OF tne
women who voted it says: . 1t is demonstrated
that they were in no sense Influenced by their
husbands This seems TO imply that the Kansas
women are usually, or at least sometimes, In
auenced by their husbands a novel and somewhat
preposterous idea which will be looked upon with
suspicion by experienced married men everywhere.
Newspaper writers should confine themselves to
facts and leave such airy fances of the brain as
this to the poet and to the African traveller