They Won the Day.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 9, 30 June 1887, Page 4

They Won the Day.

The New York correspondent of the Argus writes: —“ The woman suffrage recently adopted in the state of Kansas, in the north-west, has shown some very comical phases. Leavenworth is a military post, and a to wn of some 50,000 souls. It is strongly and the temperance pit.rty is well rooted there. In the recant canvass a liquor dealer was put ns a candidate for mayor by the Democratic. Th - a upeake Illinois. 81 e was reported in one of her speeches as saying that the aristo- 1 cratic circle of the town, in which the army officers were prominent, reeked with immorality, this was the signal for an outburst of political activity among the ladies. they denounced the statement as it deserved The frightened oratess (if there is such a word) denied having made the statement Her denial only inflamed her foes the more. ‘ Society,’ organised to move on the polls. Ladies brought their carnages and liveried coachmen out to carry their servants, their washer-women, and even some of the frail voters known in the town as ‘ sports,’ to the election booths. They flocked about these places themselves and plied friends, acquaintances, and strangers with their personal solicitations for votes. They won the day'. Whether they ought to be proud of it or no you can judge. As an object lesson in that purification of politics that is one of tho pleas of womansuffragists for their scheme, it is well worth studying. Throughout the state, when any change in the relative strength of the parties was made by the women voting, it is almost invariably in the direction of the choice of bad men and the worst party."