omen of the State, and especially to the Hon.
J. C. Root of Wyandotte, Hon. Hackney of Winfield, Col.
Graves of Montgomery, and Gen. Kelly, for their able and
fearless support of the measure, and to each and every
member of the convention who voted for it.

In 1883, Senator Hackney introduced a bill of which we find the
following in the _Topeka Capital_ of that date:

Senate bill No. 46, being Senator Hackney's, an act to
provide for the submission of the question of female
suffrage to the women of Kansas, was taken up, the reading
thereof being greeted with applause. It provides that at the
general election in 1883 the women of the State shall
decide, by ballot, whether they want suffrage or not.
Senator Hackney made an address to the Senate upon the bill,
saying he believed in giving women the same rights as men
had. The last Republican platform declared in favor of woman
suffrage, and those Republicans who opposed the platform
said they believed the women of the State should have their
say about it; the Democratic platform said the same as the
dissenters from the Republican. Several humorous amendments
were made to the bill. Senator Kelley favored the bill
because there were a great many women in the State who
wanted to vote. He hoped the Senate would not be so
ungallant as to vote the bill down. Senator Sluss moved the
recommendation be made that the bill be rejected. Carried.

The Republican State convention of 1884 ignored the woman
suffrage question. The Anti-monopoly (Greenback) party State
convention, of August 1884, placed in its platform the following:

That we believe the advancing civilization of the past
quarter of the nineteenth century demands that woman should
have equal pay for equal work, and equal laws with man to
secure her equal rights, and that she is justly entitled to
the ballot.

Miss Fanny Randolph of Emporia, was nominated by acclamation for
State superintendent of public instruction, by this convention.
The Prohibition State convention, in session in Lawrence,
September 2, 1884, placed the following plank in its platform:

We believe that women have the same right to