day are prohibition, anti-monopoly, and
woman suffrage.

_Resolved_, That we believe in the political equality of the
sexes, and we call on the legislature to submit such an
amendment to the people for adoption or rejection, to the
constitution of the State as will secure to women equal
political rights.

Later the convention nominated me for register of deeds, and Dr.
Sallie A. Goff for coroner. I immediately engaged Miss Jennie
Newby of Tonganoxie, member of the executive committee and State
organizer of the Prohibition party of Kansas, to make a canvass
of the county with me in the interest of the party and the county
ticket. We held ten meetings and at all points visited made
converts to both prohibition and woman suffrage, though nothing
was said about the latter. There were two men on the ticket; one
of them received more votes than Dr. Goff and I did, and the
other fewer. Emma Faris ran independently for register of deeds
in Ellsworth county and received a handsome vote. It is no longer
a matter of much comment for a woman to run for an office in
Kansas.

Mrs. Gougar came again to Kansas in June to attend the third
annual meeting of the Radical Reform Christian Association, and
spent a month lecturing on woman suffrage and temperance.

January 15, 16, 1885, the annual meeting of the State society was
held at Topeka. Large and enthusiastic audiences greeted Mrs.
Gougar on this, her third visit to Kansas. She remained at the
capital for several days, and largely through her efforts with
members of the legislature special committees were voted for in
both Houses to consider the interests of women. The measure was
carried in the House by a vote of 75 to 45.[483] In the Senate it
was a tie, 19 to 19. The new committee[484] through its chairman,
George Morgan of Clay, reported in favor of a bill for municipal
suffrage. It was so low on the calendar that there was no hope of
its being reached, but a motion was made to take it out of its
regular course, which was lost by 65 to 52.

The second annual meeting of the State society was held at
Salina, October 28, 29, 1885. Mrs. Laura M. Johns gave the
address of welcome, to which Mrs. Anna C. Wait, the president,
responded. "Mother Bickerdyke,"[485] who