Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-07-30
NEARLY 300 women
SEEKING PUBLIC
OFFICE in KANSAS
Number of Female Candi-
dates Outstanding Feature
of Election Tuesday.

Der of women seeking office is tn
outstanding feature of the genera
primary election to be held in Kan
sas Tuesday. All parties are Il
name their candidates for presidential
electors, two justices of the suprem
court, a complete state ticket ant
legislative, county, township ant
municipal officers.
Nearly 800 women are contestin:
for the various offices to be filed a
the November election. l. IS over l0'
mere than ever ran for political job:
in this state before. The following
shows the number of women running
for different places: Congressional
nomination, /; state positions, Il
county superintendent of public in
struction, 1903; register OF deeds, 80
clerk of the district court, 40; county
treasurer, 81; county clerk, Is; pro
bate Judge, 8; high school trustee, 6
county attorney, l.
There is only one county in the
state in which there IS not woman
candidate for some county office. The
women now hold 1876 county offices
in Kansas and with the Increased
number of candidate in larger
number of counties it is considered
probable that they will increase their
holdings of political jobs 20 beyond
the $50 mark at the coming election.
The women are running for total
of 191 separate positions.
In state politics the Democrats,
ProhibitiDnists and Socialists have
taken up the women in greater num-
bers than the Republicans, but in To-
cal affairs al of the woman candl-
dates for county offices are listed as
Republicans, lot Democrats, 10 So
cialists and one Prohibitionist- Nearly
one-half the Socialist and prohibition
state tickets are made up OF women.
Miss Lizzie Wooster Is the only wo-
man candidate on the Republican
state ticket. She is seeking the
nomination for state superintendent
of public instruction. DR.. Eva Hard
ing is a candidate for congress In
the First district on the Democratic
ticket.
For two years now the women have
held the majority of the county su-
perintendent offices in the state. Two
Years ago there were 53 women ehos-
- n, ynYs position in the los counties.
This was the first time the women
had taken the majority of places from
the men. They are expected to in
crease this this year. as there are
women candidates in 50 counties. Two
years ago only four women failed OF
election as county superlntendents.
There is an increased number of wo-
men candidates for other county
clerical positions.
Ida C. Colin OF Spring Hill, Social
ist candidate for county attorney in
Johnson county, is the first woman
to ever run for this place in Kansas.
There are nearly one hundred women
practicing attorneys in the state but
none has ever taken an active inter-
est in this place. There never has
been a woman candidate for sheriff,
county surveyor or county commits
sioner. and there are no women can
didates for these places this year.
There are now four women probate
Judges and three of them are candi-
dates for reelection and there are
five others seeking places on the
bench. There are no women oppos-
ing women as candidates for probate
Judge.
The process of elimination has left
few contests for places on the state
tickets On the Republican side the
principal contests are for the nomi-
nations for state auditor and state
treasurer, for which there are four
candidates each. Governor Arthur
Capper and most of the other present
state officials are assured of renomi-
nation. W. C. Iansdon of Salina and
Ben T. Gaitskill of Girard are con-
testing for the Democratic guberna-
torial nomination. For each of the
other places on the Democratic state
ticket there is but one candidate. The
Socialist party will name a complete
state ticket and the Prohibitionists
will name candidates for the princi-
pal offices E. n. Richardson OF
tiirard will be the Socialist candidate
for governor and Fl. r. Ross of
Sterling has been selected as the Pro-
l1itfsion standard-bearer Practically
all of the present representatives in
congress are slated for denomination.