New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-23
KANSAS EDITOR
EXTOLS SUFFRAGE
Col. II. J. Allen Bases Opin-
ion on Is Years Obser-
walton of Results.
SEES NO POLITICAL
HYSTERIA EVIDENCE
Instances Defeat of Woman VINO
Ran for Supreme Court on
Sex Platform.

Suffrage Il. not an impending revo-
luton. 1t is merely a necessary ad-
iustment in q revolution that has al
ready happened"
Thus spoke at the Hotel Aston yes
terday Colonel Henry J. Allen, editor
OF "The Wichita Kan Beacon Pro-
gressive candidate for Governor OF
Kansas last year and the man in charge
o. the Roosevelt forces a. the Repuo-
lican convention from which the Pro-
gressive party emerged.
Colonel Allen comes from a state
where equal suffrage has been the or
der of the day for twenty-five years.
Men Hard to Reach.
There are two classes OF men you
can't get hold Of on the suffrage ques-
ton" said the editor in dryly humoi-
ous draw There is. FIRST. the fanatic
Who ia afraid Of a change. and he Is
equally as bad as the fellow who wants
a change all the time; and, secondly
there is the fellow interested In the
baleful effects Of government VINO
fears that a change may affect his per
sonal fortune. A third class, one when
car be gotten hold Of, holds the chap
who has an honest, mysterious fear lest
voting change all that is gentle ana de-
sjrabie in woman. The problem is 10
get him TO realize that the woman VINO
has been by his side in all the avenues
81 life. who has been the guardian OF
his pocketbook and his religion Tor
most men own their religion - IN tneir
yyife's name), will not in some suoue
way be changed by the fact that per
hans once in two years she goes TO the
polls and votes.
EQUAL suffrage is inevitable. Look
NJ our modern fctional heroines as
aidelight on the thought Of the age ana
the status of women. No longer do we
hnd the small. effete, mid-Victorlsn AT
rabella. The heroine of to-day Is a
double-fsted damsel, who plays goiI
ana csntures wild horses. She Is the
strong, athletic type. not the cllnglng
vine The woman Of to-day plays more
in the life Of a man than the role OF a
docile and afectionate guinea pig
Woman Who Failed.
From the experience Of twenty-five
years of equal suffrage in Kansas "a
virile and progressive state with some
/ 800 900 inhabitants) | know that. po-
litical hysteria does not spring from
suffrage. They vote as intelligent cltl-
zens. not as women. In the last cam
pairn. as an example, woman ran Tor
Supreme Court judgeship. She APP
pealed 20 the women TO vote Tor her'
because. forsooth, she was woman.
She was defeated, for the women
Judged her on her ability as lawyer
and her legal attributes were weighed
in the balance and found wanting.
Colonel Allen chuckled to himself
"And still woman has kept the So
prano parts Of life. In Kansas there
are none who have grown boards
chewed tobacco or worn spurs.
"And they have done things ne
continued. "They have cleaned up the
polls. In place Of the usual filth, the
sprawling men, the thick haze Of to-
bacco smoke and the nAuseating odor
of chewing tobacco, the polls are now
clean, orderly, decent The women
have clearly reduced the attitude OF
carelessness. They have put the dis
cussion Of political life on cleaner
and better plane. Kansas now mas
dependable, intelligent force TO night
Tho roughnecks who make their living
out Of politics"
Colonel Allen will spend week or
more In the city. He disclaims any po-
litical significance to his visit.