Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-12
SERVE FORMAL NOTICE ON KANSAS
OFFICEsEEkERS.
MUST BE FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE.
OTHERWISE WOMEN WILL WORK
FOR THEIR DEFEAT.
Weary of Begging Parties for Favors
VIII Ask the Incoming Legis-
Iature for Presidential Suf-
fraEe-E. s. A. Officers
for Next Year.

Topeka, Kas., Nov. 11.-(Special) The
Kansas Equal Suffrage Association has be-
come tired of begging this or that polit-
fcal organization for favors, and its mem
bers now propose TO show their fighting
qualities At the annual meeting of the
association in Representative hall to-day.
this resolution was adopted:
Whereas, for nearly fifty years in our
republic, many of her daughters have been
pleading. petitioning and resolving in favor
of equal suffrage without regard to sex,
until it seems of no avail; answer to argu-
nnents has ceased and now the question
seems to have resolved itself into one of
political expediency; therefore.
Resolved, By this. the thirteenth an
nual session of the Kansas Equal Suffrage
Association, that henceforth We deem it
must be expedient for all true suffragists
and every suffrage association in the state
to do all in their power to defeat every
candidate for public office who refuses to
declare himself openly and honestly in ia
vor of the right Of suffrage to every adult
citizen of this republic without regard to
sex"
The members also adopted other resolu-
Eons. as follows:
Resolved, That We ask for such leEis-
lation as will, before the next municipal
election in Kansas. provide that women
may vote upon propositions to tax cities
for the support OF public libraries. This is
asked for the reason that men refuse to
vote any library indebtedness on the city,
when the women will If they get a chance.
Resolved. That we hold in grateful re-
membrance every instance of the recogni-
tion of the work and worth of women IN
places of public trust, and urge the govern
eg-elect to enforce the law providing for
the sole employment Of women in the
Girls Industrial school at Beloit.
Resolved in the interests of justice, pro-
prdety and expediency. we demand the ap-
pointment of women on the state board OF
charities by the incoming administration;
and that this reform may have permanency
We urge that legislation be enacted making
mandatory by statutory enactment the ap-
pointment of two women upon the board.
The incoming legislature will be asked to
grant to Kansas women presidential suf-
frage, and the members Of the various local
suffrage clubs are urged to use the meas
ures of suffrage which are now theirs.
The officers elected for the coming year
follow: President Mrs. Katie B. Addison,
of Eureka: vice president, Mrs. Fannie E.
Bobbttt, Winfield; corresponding secretary,
Mrs. B. B. Baird, Eureka; recording secre-
tary, Miss Laura Gregg. Garnett: parlia-
mentaIdan, Mrs. Bina Otis. Topeka; attor-
ney. Mrs L.. o. Case. Topeka: auditor.
Mrs Emma Sells Marshall, Midia; organiz-
er, Miss Laura Gregg, Garnet; member ma
tional committee. Mrs. Laura n. Johns,
Salina; delegates to the national conven-
tion-Mrs. Laura N. Johns, Salina; Mrs.
Z. M. Wardell Topeka; Mrs. Anna C. Wait,
Lincoln: Mrs. S. A. Thurston, Topeka; Mrs.
Katie Addison, Eureka; alternates-Miss
Laura Gregg, Garnett; Mrs. Fannie Bob
bitt. Winfield: Mrs. B. B. Baird. Eureka:
DIR. Emily Newcomb, Kansas City, Kas.