The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-27
Republican Leaders Organize
Fight on Superintendent.
VIII Try to Fill Place on Ticket
With Woman.
MISS LIZZIE WOOSTER CHOSEN
New Voters Are Demanding the
Fruits of Loyalty.
Elimination of Third Term
Handicap Part of Plan.

state wide efforts are to be made by
q number of prominent Republicans
to land a place on the state ticket Tor
a woman. The plan will call for the
elimination of W. d. Ross, state super
intendent of public instruction, VINO
has drawn eight years of service at the
state house and is candidate LOT d
third term as head of his department;
Through the elimination of Ross ana
nomination of Miss Wooster, RepuD-
lican leaders figure they Will poth
recognize the new voters and dodge
the burden of third term candidate
on the ticket.
Kansas women will this year cast
their first vote for president. Two
years ago they voted for the first time
in a state wide election The hepupil
cans in 1914 did not grant the request
of the women for a place on the sIdte
ticket This year the demand is ooupiy
emphatic. The women want recoe ~
ton and they look on the o1ilce u
state superintendent of public instruc
ton as their just reward Tor party NY
alty. Even the winning of TINS place.
they argue, will give the men the nom
nations to nine of the ten state olAleeS
to he filled in November.
The fight of Miss Wooster Is 10 Ie
based both on her ability to handie
the work and the claim that Kansas
women should have an opportunity TO
share the benefits of suffrage WIN
men Her record in school work Is
widely known in the state ana Win an
extensive acquaintance she Will pc
formidable candidate in the primaries
RohiEd her fight for the nomination
are a score of men who are recognized
leaders in the Republicans ilfts1rs IN
the state. She has also won the active
support of nearly fifty prominent
weekly and daily papers in the state
Efforts to dethrone superintendent
Ross are based on the fact that he held
office in the state house eight years,
has served two terms as state superin-
terdent of public instruction ana IS
now a candidate for a third term II
is also urged that in the passage or
the motion picture censorship act,
Ross baked ard sulked in the enforce
ment of the law and that his attitude
resulted in litigation which tied up
the operation of the law nearly two
years In the 1915 legislature Ross
urged the passage of the law provid-
ing for a board of school inspectors.
Since the enactment of the law. Ross
has been charged with the organiza-
ton Of private political machine
which operated to his personal and po-
liticaI advantage in the campaign.
Real war on Ross. however, will be
based on his third term candidacy and
the necessity of recognizing the new
voters in the selection of candidates
for state offices. Women have been
elected county superintendent in more
than fifty of the los counties of the
state. of the $1,000 teachers in the
state, 1000 are women All of which
has furnished argument for the
women. and the men who are leading
the night against Ross and his third
term program.
Fay Seaton, editor of the Manhat-
tan Daily Mercury, and a number of
other Kansas publishers, have taken
up the third term fight on Ross. The
campaign is to be made state wide
with the object of balancing the Re
publican state ticket with the nominal
ton of a woman