STRIKE AGAINST WOMAN MAYOR.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 4855, 16 November 1911, Page 3

STRIKE AGAINST WOMAN MAYOR.

Suffragism in Kansas, U.S.A., has I caused a sex revolution in the town ot Hunnevvell, where the men officials are protesting against the rule of Mrs Ella Wilson, who recently was elected Mayor. They declare she is arbitrary and unfair in her executive work, and they are trying to force her to resign. The municipal council, composed of men, has refused to levy taxes, and officials are, therefore, without salaries. The men, heads of the various, departments, are declining to work with the Mayoress, and all Government business is at a deadlock. Mrs Wilson has secured the support of Governor Stubbs, of the State of Kansas, and she has issued an ultimatum to the men. She has the appointing power over moat of the Hunnewell departments, and she announces she will oust the men and fill every post with women unless there is a change in the masculine attitude toward her. "1 am not going to resign, and don't you forget it,” she is quoted as saying to an interviewer. ‘‘On the contrary, if I can bring it about, and 1 think 1 can. I am going to have a city administration composed of women from dogcatcher to mayor. ‘‘Yes, 1 want a woman city marshal. A woman can handle that police office just as well as a man. Because we have no regular marshal now, I am doing the work' myself. The town is morally cleaner now than it ever was when a man had the job. Women can tell by sense of smell whether the law is being broken and gaming places and other resorts are open, and my nose is as good as any one's. “There aren’t any political pulls in our town since I became Mayor. Any man who works for the city’s money is going to earn it. or he gets fired. I’ll add, also that when I quit the office of Mayor, there won’t bo any men crowing around over what they 'put over’ on me.”