tic Central Committee:_

SIR:--I am in receipt of your communication of August 30,
advising me of the action of the Democratic convention of
August 26, in nominating me as their candidate for State
superintendent of public instruction.

In making this nomination the Democratic party of Kansas
has, with a liberal and enlightened spirit, and with a
generous purpose, yielded to the tendency of the times,
which demand equal rights and equal opportunities for all
the people, and it has thus shown itself to be a party of
progress. It has placed itself squarely and unequivocally
before the people upon this great and vital question of
giving to woman the right to work in any field for which she
may be fitted, thus placing our young and glorious State in
the foremost rank on this, as on the other questions of
reform.

Furthermore, in nominating one who has no vote, and for this
reason cannot be considered in politics, and in doing this
of its own free will, without any solicitation on my part,
the Democratic party of this State has shown that it is in
full accord with the Jeffersonian doctrine that the office
should seek the man and not the man the office; and also
that it fully appreciates the fact which is conceded by all
persons who have thought much on educational matters, that
the best interests of our schools demand that the office of
superintendent, both of the State and county, should be as
far as possible disconnected from politics, and it has done
what it could to rescue the office from the vortex of mere
partisan strife. For this reason I accept the nomination,
thanking the party for the honor it has conferred upon me.

Respectfully, SARAH A. BROWN.

Miss Brown was defeated. The vote of the State showed the average
Democrat unable to overcome his time-rusted prejudices
sufficiently to vote for a woman to fill the highest educational
office in the gift of the people, so that Miss Brown's minority
was smaller even than that of the regular Democratic ticket.

January 21, 1881, Hon. S. C. Millington of Crawford county
introduced in the House a joint resolut