d Kalloch, C. V. Eskridge and Judge Sears were in the
field working with might and main against woman suffrage; while
Gov. Crawford was President of the Impartial Suffrage Association
of the State, and Judge Wood, Secretary. Such old time radicals
as Hon. Chas. Robinson, the first Free State Governor of Kansas,
worked hard and well. Prof. John Horner, Senator Ross, Rev. Wm.
Starrett, Mr. J. M. Chase, and many others also did good work.
Hon. Sidney Clark left his post in the House of Representatives
at Washington, and canvassed the State for a re-election, having
it in his power to say many things and do much good for the cause
of woman, but he did it not. He returned to his own city,
Lawrence, to make his last great speech on the eve of election,
to find to his great consternation, that the only hall had been
engaged by the President of the Woman Suffrage Association of the
city for a meeting of their party on that eve. In vain did the
honorable gentleman and his friends strive to get possession of
that hall. It was paid for and booked to R. S. Tenney. Poor
Sidney then sought permission to address their woman suffrage
audience, but being refused, he was obliged to betake himself to
a dry-goods box in the street, where he tried to interest the
rabble, while Col. Horner, Rev. Mr. Starrett, and others, had a
fine, large audience in the hall.

It is to be greatly regretted that the Republican party that had
accomplished such great good when the nation was in its hour of
trouble, should have allowed such discord to enter its ranks and
thereby defeat both woman and negro suffrage. But Kansans have
made great progress since 1867, and many who voted against the
proposition then would to-day vote and work heartily for it, and
doubtless, if submitted again it would be carried by a large
majority. A recent conversation with Ex-Gov. Potter, who voted
against it, confirms this opinion, and Senator Plumb is
softening. A noticeable feature of the meetings of the political
campaign of 1880, was the presence of large numbers of women. On
the eve of the election, at a full meeting in the largest hall in
this place, a woman surprised the people by asking the chairman's
permission to speak, and amid rounds of applause, poured forth
such sentiments as compelled qu