Show SUFFRAGE IN ILLINOIS CHICAGO has baa on its hands a wo lomanis womans manis suffrage question tion which to Is attracting the attention of the press of the whole country the last legislature of illinois passed a law conferring suffrage on women so far as the election for school superintendents and other local officials to is concerned on the first tuesday in november next a school superintendent will be elected in chicago the women thinking that the new law entitled them to vote for candidates for that office flocked to the registration offices to b be 9 qualified but to their intense chagrin they were refused registration it appears that this law as a literary production to is something like the response from a delphic oracle or from a priest in the temple of isle it can be construed many ways even its constitutionality is questioned however the election commissioners in their instructions to the judges and clerks of registration say only such snob women aa a have received a certificate oate ot naturalization from some wurt court of record in this state prior to january 1 1870 are entitled to register A homans womans suffrage law that admits even in the remotest way of this interpretation preta pre tation fion must be a curious document one commissioner dissented holding that the law entitled all women having the qualifications of age citizenship residence etc the same as males to register in some oases cases a few women were registered but in ty registration was refused there is no doubt that the intention of the legislature was to do justice to all women in the matter of voting for school officers but the statute was loosely drawn and in specifying how women of foreign birth could become entitled to vote it failed to make sped be alc the qualification for native born women the result will be that the aburto will have to determine the mat ter sod and meanwhile the lady citizens of chicago like many any others of their sex will have to wait |