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Show No Party tines Drawn. The Kansas State Editorial association at its recent annual meeting took an informal in-formal vote on the pending constitutional constitution-al amendment granting full suffrage to women and declared in favor of it, four to one. The Kansas Democrat says: "The action of the State Editorial as sociation at Hutchinson on the question of equal suffrage was very gratifying to the suffragists. Like the State Teach-eis' Teach-eis' association, it declared in favor of the amendment by a decisive majority. One who was present at the convention says there were in attendance about a dozen lady journalists and wives of editors, edi-tors, these ladies occupying a corner of the room by themselves. When the question was put to a vote, every one of the women rose and voted in the affirmative. affirma-tive. This action of the ladies was greeted by a round of applause, which snows the hearty sympathy the majority major-ity of the members of the Editorial association asso-ciation have for the equal suffrage movement. move-ment. There were no party lines drawn in this vote, members of every political party voting in favor of the amendment." |