Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-12-20
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
How it has Worked in Kansas.

ASSOCIATION are still working hard to
pass their amendment through the
next Legislature. Many members of
the Legislature are willing to give it
full consideration and some are en-
curing how it has worked in other
States.
Mrs. Laura NJ. Johns, OF Kansas,
writes as follows on the subject:
EDITOR APPEAL
The ladies in your State favoring
Woman Suffrage have asked me to
tell tbe people of Nevada how the ex-
pertinent has worked in Kansas:
For ten years the women Of Kansas
have been voting for municipal Off
cers and eligible to all municipal
offices. We have 1913 cities,-all or
gaI lied towns in Kansas are called
cities. Our experiment in
suffrage is extensive enough in point
OF length Of time OF operation and
numbers concerned to settle several
important and much-m Dotted ques-
tions.
The investment Of Kansas women
with municipal suffrage has brought
to herself all gain and no loss.
She has gained in power, and has
discovered that not poweriessness but
power commands the respect and con-
sideration OF the governing class; she
has gained In self-Tespect and -
Respect she is learning that there is
dignity, righteousness and womauli-
ness in a certain sort OF self-assertion.
1t is here demonstrated that we women
who vote remain in present possession
not only OF ali III "ancient privil-
eges," but we have rights" added
thereto. Indeed, extra privilege md
consideration and special attention
ore ours in consequence Of our en-
neutrality-suspicious. when
election day is at hand.
The home has not suffered any loss
by reason Of our women taking part
IL the election Of city officials. The
laundering p~rejudice which stood out
against woman's acknowledgements on
the score Of grief 20 come to home and
children thereby, has been disarmed
by the demonstration that voting is
no more Incompatible with washing
little faces, sewing on buttons, and
sweeping floors, than it is with mer-
chandising, Understandings or farm
ing. Woman suffrage in actual 0p-
GRAFTON demonstrates that the exercise
OF the suffrage by women does not
lessen motber love, diminish wifely
devotion, nor weaken wonan's loyalty
to home and its dearest interests.
Though women here are eligible to
city offices on equal terms with men,
only Is of the nearly 800 Mayors
chairs have been occupied by M
in the ten years Of their enfranchise-
meDt. II ONE had held city Offices
in equal proportion with men, about
1880 women would have acted as
Mayors in Kansas during the last
decade; but Il ONE have not
much desired Office, and have been
elected generally for some specific
purpose.
When some violation Of law has
been endured far past the point of
toleration, then in at least a dozen
cities women have been put forward
to perform a service from which men
shrink as likely TO hurt their bust
ness" or as being an u%ngrateful task.
AS the business Of om is mainly
safeguarding their children, they do
not find the conducting OF a city ad-
ministration according to the laws OF
decency, sohriety. and morally hurt
ful to their dearest interests. 1t is
therefore bat city governments are
put into their hands, and they are
known to have undertaken the duties
of public rust" with proper sense Of
the responsibility, and to have per-
formed their work in excellent fash !
ion.
Concerning the effect of woman's
ballot upon city government we
hasten to say hat We have not
brought in a municipal millennium.
We have. however, made it impera-
tive upon men to put up candidates
or higher moral character than for
merly If a man of known immoral
character is proposed the "sunbonnet
telegraph" is potent to make the facts
Known, and to bring upon him a
storm OF women's ballots under which
he Is buried out of sight. Party con-
alterations are not weighty enough
with women to overbalance the ques-
ton OF character in officials. Whether
women poll their whole vote or not at
every election, the fact that "thev are
there to do it" prevents the nomina-
ton Of any except the most upright