The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-05
FOR THE LADIES.
An Uprising of Women in Favor
of Fair Play.
Much Sympathy of Voters for
the Two Women Candidates
ON THE SCHOOL BOARD
Whom it Was Attempted TO
Crowd Off the Ticket.
Messrs. Bird and McFadden
Stood by the Women.


skirmish in the city election Inc
names of the two ladies' indcrsed by the
Equal Suffrage association, Mrs LIZ
zie B. Hamrick of the First ward and
Mrs. R B. steele of the Fifth ward Will
remain on the Republican ticket
The committee appointed by the Re-
publican city central committee has
given up the fight and Chairman stone
told a Journal reporter To-Day thal
there is nothing to do but submit
Everything possible was done TO nave
the names taken from the ticket. Ihe
committee prepared a writ OF manda-
mus and took it to Judge Hazen sat
urday afternoon by which the clerk
would have been compelled TO place the
names of the two ladies in separate
column. but Judge Hazen refused 10
hear the motion. He had just ADJOURN
ed court for the March term ana dlu not
have time.
The committee then went to the su-
preme court, but the court was Occu-
pied in hearing an important case and
could not hear the application The
committee next waited upon City AttOr-
ney Bird and Clerk McFadden and re-
quested them to change the ruling.
Clerk McFadden said he would do so
if Mr.. Bird would give him a written
opinion that such an action would be
legal
As Mr. Bird had given an opinion ex-
actIy opposite, he refused to do as re-
quested.
The committee then gave up the fight
threatening to organize fight on City
Attorney Bird a the election tomorrow.
In fact that is now the plan The two
officers would not listen to the COM
mittee, and they are to pc made to Suf-
fer. But this is fight in which there
will be a reaction. When the women
voters hear thai Mr.. Bird and Mr.. Nc
Fadden are to be sacrificed by the men
because they have held firm in theiI
opinion that Mrs. Hamrick and Mrs.
2 entitled n nl2GRE
publican ticket. the women, who can
vote quite as well as the men, and
work. too, for that matter, viii see TO
1t that these gentlemen do not suffer
for their stand.
rms complication premises a very in
tereSting time at the election tOmOr-
row. There are 2512 women registered
and it is safe to say that the Equal Suf-
1rage association will see that as many
as possible vote. Besides that there are
thousands of men who believe that the
women should have representation on
the school board and will vote for the
candidates of the suffrage association.
Mrs. Hamrick and Mrs. Steele are the
only candidates whose names appear on
the Republican tickets, and it is admit
ed by the members of the Republican
central committee that there is dan
ger that at least these two will be
elected
If the voters do their duty, they will
be elected.
Commissioner of Elections Yount has
secured an opinion from Attorney Gen
eral Boyle concerning the count of the
names of the candidates on the Repub-
lcan ticket for the school board In the
First and Fifth wards, where Mrs.
Hamrick and Mrs. Steele are on the
ticket, there are two candidates for
members of the school board on the Re
publican ticket, but only one may be
voted for.
Many people, it is presumed, will vote
for all the candidates, and they will,
therefore vote for two members of the
school board in these two wards while
they are entitled to vote for but one.
Attorney General Boyle holds that
where a person votes for both candi-
dates for the school board in one ward
that the votes cannot be counted for
either candidate City Attorney Bird
gives the same opinion
Mrs. Case says that she is satisfied
that both Mrs Hamrick and Mrs. Steele
will be elected.
We have the law on our side and
the reason the committee from the cen
tral committee gave up the fight is be-
cause they found that the law is
against them. Judge Hazen has al !
ready decided similar case. We think |
that the women should have places on
the school board. There are 6 900 school |
children in Topeka, and it is no more
than fair that the mothers OF the city
of Topeka should have something TO saw
about their education.
Mrs. case has written the following
statenent showing that the position ta-
Attorney Bird is the legal one and civ |
ing a review of everything done by the |
city central committee with reference |
10 the women candidates:
THE central committee of fhA T9eD,,h /
mean party met and adopted certain |
rules compliance with these rules nv |
thecandidates for nomination was made |
imperative, without which he cOuld mot /
be legally nominated. Certain candidates
1alIed TO, in any respect. obey the ruIes |
OF thelr party; still they We're voted for |
at the primaries
The central committee c0mpOsed of |
Republicans, Is being present met to |
declare the result, and declared Ia to |
rules were nominated and tbosa -.
did not, were not the legal nominees of |
the party, and ordered the legal ,,or,,i |
nees' names to be placed on the flicker. |
after new central committee came in |
to Office. they, at their third rneatil7er |
recOnsidered the action of the ola corS
mittee and rescinded the action NJ +ba |
old committee and declared the cnas |
who disobeyed the lawful resolution ~ |
their predecessors to be the laU-ful ~
nominees. When the new committee So
declared largely because the candidate
was a Woman) the so ouSted candidate |
procured second nomination by an
other faction of her party, and is placed !
on the ticket. By the act of the COM
fnttee, whose sole duty it was to pass
upon the question. and by the subse-
quent action by petition, and by every
legal, moral and political right the can
didate so declared and so nominated.
woman or no woman was the sola and
only candidate whose name should ap-
pear on the ballot, and if her name
should not be placed thereon a perenp-
tory order upon the city officials from !
the supreme court to do so, would be |
granted.
In the case of Simon V. Daniels de- |