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m Wxt guUj JWfom. ASTORIA. OREGON: 8UNDAY. MAY 8. 1887 FEMALE SUFFRAGE IN KANSAS. For some years, says the New York Post, women have exercised the right of suffrage in three of the territories, but the subjection of the Mormon women to the priesthood has rendered the Utah expeument (now ended by the anti-Mormon bill passed by the last congress) utterly valueless for instruction; while the population of Wyoming has been too small to afford any generalization, and the experience of "Washington territory recently interrupted by a judicial decision that the law oi 1883 -giving women the ballot is void, through some technical error has been too brief to warrant conclusions of value to the country at large. The Kansas legislature recently passed an act - giving women the right to vote in municipal elec tions, and thoy exercised the right for the first time in the spring elections some weeks ago. As Kansas is a stato which has at tained an age of more than a quar ter of acentury, and has a popu lation of oue million two hundred and seventy -thousand, this trial of female suffrage is the most impor tant and significant yet made in the country. The results must com mand the attention 6f all thought ful peoplp. In most of the towns and cities, about one-half of the women vot ed, sometimes more according to the heat of the contest. In many . they elected prohibition candi dates. In Hutchinson "two hundred wom en voted, and much bad feeling was engendered by their dividing their support-and espousing different fac- - tions. The ladies' candidate was de- .u feated by twenty-four majority. The ladies' vote was about evenly divid- - -ed, both factions of them canvassing the city in buggies." In tiarnett "there was a spirited contesfj'but the citizen temperance ticket, which re oeivedthe unanimous support of the ladies', was eleoted by a large majori ty. .Ladies canvassed from house to house and employed carriages to con vey their friends to and from the spoils. Two ladies assisted as judge and clerk of election." In Wichita "two hundred women voted; abont half of them were 'sporting' women." ""In Topeka, the capital of the state, the total registration was five thousand four hundred and ninety-four, of whom one thousand four hundred -and six were women, and about twelve hundred of them voted. .About three-fourths of them supported the Republican candidate for mayor, and, a3 he was elected by only a few hundred majority, Democrats concede that the result was decided by the fe male vote. Some features of the election are' thus described: "The ladies who voted were in gen eral .... representatives of loyal Kan sas womanhood. It had been pre dicted by the opponents of munici pal suffrage that the vote of the de graded and ignorant class of women would overbalance the vote of the re spectacle ladies; but the election in Topeka proved this not to be true, and a verv large majority of the votes Cist were by some of the most refined and cultured ladies of the city, and all appeared to vote" intelligently and without" hesitation The moat of the ladies went to the polls with 1 heir ballots already prepared, and very of ten their ballots were scratched." In Leavenworth there were two tickets the people's, headed by S. F. Neely, the present mayor; and the fusion (Republican and . Prohibitionist), headed by Thomas A. Garrigues. Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, an Indiana woman, whose reputation in her old home has, justly or unjustly, been assailed, took command of the female voters. "Particular attention was paid by her to the colored people and the Knights of Labor, and - with these " elements she was most successful. It is a fact that nine out of every ten colored -women voted for Gar rigues. They were as much under Mrs. Grougar's leadership and voted at her dictatien as if they vrere a body of soldiers." As the campaign waxed warm, Mrs. Gou gar grew rather reckless in her language, and made" a remark -which is said by .reporter to have been, that 'the bee$ society of the torni was frightfully licentious befcause of the pr ximity of a mili tary garrison,'' but which is said by berlelf to haye been that "the SppST stratum of society was some what licentious." Whatever the exact language, it was enough to arouse the utmost indignation of "the upper stratum," and many women of tho leading families re solved to defeat at any cost the candidate whom Mrs. Gougar supported, some of them being still further stirred up by anony mous circulars attacking their per sonal reputation, which were scattered broadcast over the city. The scenes at the polls are thus described: "Women, white and black, indis criminately, stood in front of the pre cincts and fervently solicited electors to vote the the ticket that each one was championing. The ladies were not only enthusiastic for their re spective candidates, but they engaged in controversy with each other cu the sidewalks.- They went into hacks to bring their female friends to the vot ing places, placed tickets in the bands of their friends, and actually had al tercations, which, on other occasions, would, so far as affects women, ;be regarded as disreputablo. Ladies occupied carriages of all kinds, and ordered them 'driven hither and thither to pick up all classes of wom en, irrespective of color or social standing, to cast their ballots for their particular candidates. Their turn-outs were decorated with ban ners and flags indicating their special choice for mayor, and the polite lady's washerwoman and hired girl had to vote as tho polite lady re quested, or a war of words followed." "Tho upper stratum" won, Neely being elected by the narrow mar gin of only forty-six majority; but this is only tho first round in the contest, "and from this politi cal fight," it is predictod, "has sprung up a social warfare that will be carried on for years to come." Reviewing the field, it appears a fair conclusion that in small vil lages woman suffrage makes no difference in the result. As the size of tho town increases, posi tive effects begin to manifest themselves from the organization of women "organized women" sometimes deciding the election, but, as a rule, no mote wisely, it would seem, than "organized" voters of any other class. The spectacle of negro women who cannofread their ballots, voting at the dictation of a woman politi cian, is certainly not full of prom ise. But the most striking and serious feature of the experiment is the precipitation of sexual con troversies into municipal elections. SOUTH AMERICAN RAILROADS. Important legislation has been recently adopted by the congress of Chile, the most important to the commercial interests of the" world for many years, as it secures the construction of two lines of railway across the continent from the At lantic to the Pacific coast. The effect upon the development of the southern half of South Amer ica will be similar to that of the construction of the transcontinental railroads in the United States, and will cause a radical change in the commercial situation in the Argen tine Republio and on the west coast of South America. One road to be built is to fill the gap how existing in the line built by the Argentine Republic to Mendozi, within 1G0 miles of Santiago. This line starts from Buenos Avres, and the congress of Chile has finally passed a very lib eral concession, under which the work of-connecting the two re publics will be commenced at once. It is expected that the road will be completed within ayear. The im portance of the enterprise cannot be overestimated. It will make Buenos Ayres the entrepot of the southern half of the continent, and cause most of the freight which now passes around the Horn or through the Straits of Magellan on vessels to and from Valparaiso and other Pacific ports to go overland. t will also shorten the time of the journey from Pacific ports to Eu rope from twelve to fifteen days. At the same time the congress of Chili granted another and simi lar concession for a road parallel to the above, about 300 miles to the south of it, extending from the portof Bahia Blancuin the Argen tine Republic, through the pass of Antudo in the Andes mountains to Talcahauna and Conception on the Pacific coast of Chile. The two towns last named are in the center of the only coal district in South America developed to any degree. The Argentine Republic has already granted a concession for a road from Bahia Blanca to -the boundary of Chile and a con siderable part of it has been in op eration for some time. Buenos Ayres and Bahia Blanca have been connected by rail for several years. These lines will open up new dis tricts in a way that will destroy the coal monopoly existing there so many years and also ruin the English coal trade on the east coast. It is known that Germany has a covetous eye, not only on Hol land; but on that portion of Bel gium which includes Antwerp. Germany is ambitious to figure as a-great maritime power, and Hol land would give her a colonial em pire with 30,000,000 of people, besides an enormous commerce. Antwerp is to-day one of the prin cipal sea ports of Europe. Its commercial importance would be enormously swollen if it became the chief port of the greatest pow er on the continent. Indeed, so desirable are Holland and eastern Belgium to Germany, that there is a suspicion that instead of fight ing, that power might offer France to divide Belgium between them, and so remove all cause of quarrel. There are changes in tho map of Europe not far ahead, but there are also revolutionary forces to be considered that may interfere with the councils of kings, and the va rious schemes for rearranging the boundaries of nations. NEW .TO-DAY. ToXiverpoolDirect The fine llrst class Iron barque GLENAVON. Aai at Lloyds 10SO tons legister Goes on tho berth immediately and will have good despatch for Liverpool. 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