The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20
THREE KANSAS WOMEN
Who Are Candidates for Register
Of Deeds.
THEY WILL ALL PROBABLY SUCCEED.


These PIueky Kansas EOmen-They
Asked for the ONCE Just Like the
Men.
The women of Kansas have very little
to complain of after all In the matter
of holding offices they have made
pretty good record during the past fifteen
years. The men have been extremely
kind to them considering the greed of
the average Kansan to gobble every
Office in sight
The trouble with the Kansas women is
that they don't go after offices in the
right way. They think the men ought
to hand them over their share of the
spoils without the asking. They have a
notion that there is = certain amount of
chivalry about the average Kansas pol
itician. In this they are sadly mistaken.
The average Kansas politician is a
porker; especially when it comes to
dealing out offices.
There are three women in Kansas
whose examples are worthy of emulation
by their sisters who desire Office. They
knew that as long as they folded their
arms and begged the men to do the
square thing by them they would get
nothing. These three women wanted
offices, they so announced their desires,
they went after them, and they are in
fair way to get them.
At the recent Republican convention
in Dickinson county Miss Mace King
broke the record and secured the nom
ination for register of deeds This is the
first instance where woman was ever
nominated for a county office in Kansas,
other than superintendent of schools, by
g Republican convention. Miss King
wanted the office and she was not afraid
to say SO. In the contest for nomination
there were several men who laid claim
to their superior work in times past as
township and ward manipulators, but
that didn't count. The young woman
was too much for them, and instead of
taking Miss Anthony's advice and fold
ing her hands, she rolled up her sleeves
and made bold strike for the pie-c
ter, and fusion or no fusion, she is going
to be elected
Miss King is described as a tall, slen-
der, blue eyed girl, rather quiet and re-
firing in her manners, very polite and
obliging, never hurts anyone's feelings;
always does right She hasn't any fads,
isn't new woman, nor dress reformer.
Ed Little of Abilene, who ought to know.
says of Miss King: "She is just an old
fashioned, nice, sweet sensible girl-the
kind that make good sisters and wives,
guess"
Miss Stella Strait of Fort Scott is an
other young woman who intends to have
a seat at the pie-counter. In fact she has
been holding Office IS a deputy register
of deeds of Bourbon county for eight
years. This year she decided to go after
the office herself, and she is sure of cleo
ton. Miss Strait also owes her nomina-
ton TO a Republican convention.
It did not require very much
co.
capture the nomination. Her long service
in the Office, her agreeable disposition
and her winning ways made it easy. The
four men who contested with her for the
honor tramped the county over, treated
the fellows to cigars, squeezed their
hands, and exemplifed the George Peck
hug, but all of these electioneering
lodges could not equal the sweet smile
and pleasant good morning of Miss
Strait. The fact is that the four big.
burly men who tried to defeat the girl
were ashamed of themselves when the
fight was over and went home feeling
that they had tackled the buzz-saw at the
wrong time.
Another woman who takes no stock in
Miss AnthOny's plan of allowing the men
to run things religious, social, and
charita BILE, lives in Cloud county. Her
name is Mrs. Evalyn Bradford, and she
was, on saturday last, nominated by the
Republicans of Cloud county for register
of deeds Mrs. Bradford, like Miss King
and Miss Strait, concluded that she want
ed the office. She announced her candi-
dacy and then started out to see the
fellows who put up delegations. The
politi clans of Cloud county are the same
as politicians elsewhere and would have
logged Mrs. Bradford out of the nomi-
nation if they could But the woman
was too much for them, and when the
convention assembled Saturday, it was
plainly evident that the woman's quiet
work and slick political wire pulling had
secured for her the coveted prize. She
is so years old, widow, and is promi-
nent in w. R. c. circles
These women are not alone in the
office holding business. There are nine
teen women holding the office of super
intendent of schools in Kansas, and they
are about equally divided between the
Republican and Populist parties. There
would be five times that many if the
women would demand their rights, They
are Just as competent as the men. The
trouble with the women is they are too
skittish. They could control the men
and get half of the offices if they would
go at it right, but they can't do it with
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NOT FOR MCKINLEY.