vote as men,
and in the language of the Republican State platform of two
years ago, we request the next legislature to submit such an
amendment to the constitution of the State as will secure to
woman the right of suffrage.

This year we sent from Lincoln a petition with 175 names asking
for a resolution recommending to congress the adoption of the
sixteenth amendment. The results of the election of 1884, showed
quite a gain for women in county offices. There are now eleven
superintendents of public instruction, several registers of
deeds, and county clerks. The number of lawyers,[482] physicians,
notaries public, principals of schools, members of school-boards
in cities and school districts, is rapidly increasing, as is also
the number of women who vote in school-district elections. Miss
Jessie Patterson, who ran as an independent candidate for
register of deeds in Davis county, beat the regular Republican
nominee 286 votes, and the Democratic candidate 299 votes.

The work of organizing suffrage societies has also progressed,
though not as rapidly as it should, for want of speakers and
means to carry it on. Through the efforts of Mrs. Laura M. Johns
of Salina, vice-president of the State society, several new and
flourishing clubs have been formed this summer in Saline county,
so that it is probably now the banner county in Kansas. The
Lincoln society is preparing to hold a fair in September, for the
benefit of the State association, which will hold its next annual
convention in October. Suffrage columns in newspapers are
multiplying and much stress is placed upon this branch of work.
On July 18, a convention was held to organize the Prohibition
party in Lincoln county. A cordial invitation was extended to
women to attend. Eight were present, and many more would have
been had they known of it. I was chosen secretary of the
convention, and Mesdames Ellsworth and Goff were appointed upon
the platform committee, and several of the central committee are
women. The position of the new party upon the question may be
inferred from the following clauses in its platform:

_Resolved_, By the Prohibition party of Lincoln county,
Kansas, in convention assembled, that the three vital issues
before the people to-