On Oct. 16, 1902, the Lawrence Journal commented, “The equal suffragists are just now making great clamor in Kansas. It is somewhat strange that Kansas has never adopted equal suffrage. Kansas has tried about every other kind of medicine that has been manufactured in this country in 50 years, but for some inexplicable reason woman suffrage has not been experimented with. And yet, there is every reason to believe that the majority of the voters of Kansas are perfectly willing that their wives should vote. If the proposition should be submitted, the chances are that it would carry. But the women themselves have not asked for suffrage, and so their husbands have not sufficient interest in the matter to force an issue. Whenever the women of Kansas demand equal suffrage, they will get it.”