nd distributed to the
twenty-three post-offices in Lincoln county. It did not prevent
his election, and we did not expect it would, but we believed it
our duty to enter our protest against the perpetration of this
outrage upon the moral sense of those who knew him best. We
ignored him in the legislature, sending our petitions asking that
body to recommend to congress the adoption of the sixteenth
amendment, to Hon. S. C. Millington of Crawford, who had come to
our notice that winter by offering a woman suffrage resolution in
the House. In 1882 Anderson sought a second indorsement as a
candidate for the legislature, but that portion of the community
which he really represented had become disgusted with him; he
struggled against fate with constantly waning patronage for
another year, when he succumbed to the inevitable and sought a
new field, a wiser if a sadder man. His mantle has fallen upon E.
S. Bower, whose capacity and style were graphically portrayed in
caustic rhyme by Mrs. Ellsworth, making him the target for the
wit of the women long after.

I have given more space and prominence to these two editors than
they merit, but the influence of a local newspaper is not to be
despised, however despicable the editor and his paper may be; and
it takes no small degree of courage to face such an influence as
that exerted in this county by the one in question, which, I am
happy to say, has gradually dwindled, until to-day it is too
trifling, both in extent and character, to deserve recognition.

Six years ago I do not believe there was a paper in the State of
Kansas which contained a woman suffrage department, and we rarely
saw any reference whatever to the subject; now, within a radius
of fifty miles of Lincoln Centre, fully two-thirds of all
newspapers published have a column devoted to suffrage or
temperance, or both, edited by women. The reason this is not true
of the press of the entire State is because our indefatigable
corresponding secretary, Mrs. Bertha H. Ellsworth, has not yet
had sufficient time to personally present the matter; but there
has been such a growth on the subject that by the press generally
it seems to be accepted as one of the living issues of the day. A
very efficient agency in bringing about this desirable result was