The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-08
THE WOMEN WILL VOTE.
With Each Succeeding Municipal
Election in Kansas They Cast
More Ballots,
The Same Proportion of Voters,
of Those Registered, as
Among Men.
They Prepare Their Ballots at Home
They Prepare Their Ballots at Home
No Button-HolinG at Polls by
tho Women.

KANSAS Cry, April 7.-Elections were
held in Kansas to-day in all cities of the
first and second classes. Although with
out general political significance. the re-
suits Of the election were regarded With
considerable interest for two reasons;
first, because the Citizens alliance had
tickets in the field and fought all old par
ties. The Citizens alliance is really a
branch of the Farmers alliance. 1t is Or
canized on the same basis and has the
same objects In view. 1t is composed OF
that element in cities which would join the
Farmers alliance but for the fact that the
constitution of the latter organization Will
admit none but farmers. This element
has been organized i'll cities mostly since
the Farmers alliance landslide last fall,
and this election was it's first opportunity
of showing its strength.
The other element in the election which
attaches interest to it isthe fact that women,
under the avs of Kansas, are allowed
equal suffrage with men in municipal cleo
tions. 1t had been predicted that after
one or two experiences at the polls the nov
city of the thing would disappear, and with
it women's interest in municipal politics.
luAS AANs 1koO 0SSA AAhAS ~
the contrary. the women's interest in pol
itics and activity at the polls have increased
with each election. The registration of
women at the present election exceeded any
former registration. In Kansas City the
increase in registration was smaller than
in other less metropolitan cities of the state,
being only seventy-tve. At Topeka the reg
istration list was augmented by about 40
new names of women. At Wichita the in
crease WAS about 500; at ~L4eavenworth, $50,
and at Atchison 200. At Kansas City, Kan.
1,245 women registered; at Leavenworth.
2,74S; in Topeka, 2,74o; in Wichita. $500,
and in Atchison about 1900.
In Kansas City. Kan, all the candidates
provided carriages to take women to the
polls. About two-thirds of the famale vote
vas cast there. The women confined their
interest in the election to voting, and in
only q few cases did any of them resort to
practical activity at the polls. This ac-
tivity was confined to a few Citizens al
lance female leaders. The humble of col
ored women that voted in Kansas City,
Kan, was notable. They marched to the
polls with as much pride as, if not more
than, their white sisters and exercised their
rights of suffrage with the satisfaction pc
culiar to the race.
Dispatches from other large cities of
Kansas indicate that the vote of women,
compared to the registration was proper
~ W "A
women had their votes prepared at home or
at places of meeting and their presence at
at the polls was only long enough to per-
NIT them to deposit their ballots. Only Il
few female candidates appeared on any of
the tickets, and for no Office higher than
membership on a school board.
The returns from several cities show tina
the Citizens alliano , did not CIT GGfgyseah If t,,as
democratic nomine rs. In those places they
were successful in electing the democratic
nonainees. Abiline is the only city report
ing a Citizens alliance victory. The re-
turns from L~eavenworth show that the en-
tire republican ticket was elect
ed, the tirsS republican victo.y
for six years in that vicinity.
At Lawrence the republicans were also
successful. They elected their full ticket
with the exception of tive members of the
council selected by the Citizens alliance.
At Clay Center the republicans defeated
the Citizens alliance, and at Wichita the
democrats carried everything. Atchison
elects republican officers, aud Olathe a
mixed set of officers. with the republicans
in control. At Ottawa all parties combined
against the republicans, but the latter were
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