The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-09
WOMEN ARE HERE
State Gathering of the Equal
Suffragists at Topeka.
Susan B. Anthony VIII Not
Stop Here.
WILL PASS THROUGH
On the Santa Fe and May Hold
a Reception
At the Train If Plans Are Made
For 1t.
Will PASS THROUGH

Tonight the first session of the thir-
teenth annual convention of the Kan
sas Equal Suffrage association will be
4 held at Representative hall. There are
J so delegates expected to it, and many
members of the association from all
! parts of the state will attend. The
/ Topeka local association has charge of
/ the entertainment of the delegates and
! visiting women The committee which
met the women at the trains today con
/ sisted of Mesdames c. w. WhitmOre,
4 III. L. Goodman, Lucia o. Case and J.
/ e. Hart Some of the women guests
! viii not arrive until tomorrow morning.
one of the principal things which will
/ be considered at the convention will be
/ the revision of the constitution of the
association. At present any woman
! who lives in a country district away
/ from a local sudarge club is entitled to
/ a voice in the state conventions, while
/ in the clubs delegates are allowed one
4 for every fifteen members. This gives
I the country members more influence
| than the club members. A committee
/ consisting of Mesdames. Kate r. Ad-
4 olson, LUCIA o. case >. A IhurStOn,
/ NJ. e Haines, z. S. Albright and B.
/ B. Baird was appointed to make the
I revision and report their suggestions to
/ this convention.
The item of Mrs. Laura NJ Johns
/ claim on the association for her serv-
4 ices during the suffrage campaign two
years ago may be brought before the
/
The women have been disappointed
1 by the news that Susan 3. Anthony,
I Rev Anna II. Shaw and Carrie Chap
man-Catt will not be here during the
/ convention. They have been conduct
/ ing a suffrage campaign in California
and viii return from there some time
/ this week. They will not stop in To-
4 peka, but will go to Kansas City, where
/ they attend the Missouri Suffrage con-
vention November 13 and IA.
Mrs. Kate r. Addison, president Of
/ the association, and Miss Laura A.
I Gregg of Garnett, a speaker of some
I note. are being entertained at Mrs.
Henry HulIs residence,2l6 West Eighth
street.
/ Among the prominent suffrage wo-
4 men who will attend the convention
4 are. Frances z. BObbit of winfield,
/ corresponding secretary of the associa-
t ton; Laura a Gregg, Garnet treas
/ urer; Jennie Robb Maher, Kansas City,
Kan, librarian; Mrs. Abigail A. Welch,
I Cedarvale, president Sixth congress
/ siOnal district; Caroline L. Denton,
! Wichita president Seventh congress
/ siOnaI district; Mrs. NJ. E Haines. Au-
/ gusta and Mrs. B. B. Baird Eureka
At the first meeting tonight at
! o'clock at representative hall the To-
peka association viii start the ball roll
/ ing by introducing a novel entertain
ment for the delegates and visitors It
! will be called AN Evening With the
Topeka Suffrage Association Presi-
/ dent Addison, Eureka, Will call the
| meeting to order and the entire audi
/ ence will fall in line, while Bailey's or
/ chestra Will play one of its most inspir-
4 ing marches Miss Pearl Brubaker and
Miss Anna Wardau will lead the
grand march round the room and
through the aisles. The women say
this Will promote sOciability, for every
one is expected to talk to whom they
.sCoIumbia's Daughters to the tune
of Hold the Fort will be sung, Mrs
Kate Whiting Dana viii give one of
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ner viii play q piano solo entitled
"Corne Where the Lindens Bloom
Mrs A. H. Horton, wife of the ex-
chief Justice will make an address. and
given in which the following women
viii take part: Kate r. Addison, Eu-
reka: Anna G. Wait, Lincoln, Kan;
Abigail A WeIch, Cedarville; Ella
/ Green, Baldwin, and Bina A. Otis, To
peka
The business sessions of the conven-
ton will be held on Tuesday and We'd
nesday. Tuesday evening VIII De
called kansas evening. and prominent
Kansas women will speak The fol
lowing evening A. H. Vance viii speak
to the convention This viii close the
sessions of the thirteenth annual con-
vention The public is invited to all
the meetings
Mrs. /. O. Case, who is chairman Of
the entertainment committee for the
convention has been assigning the del
egates and visitors to their places She
is one of the leading suffrage women Of
Kansas and more than once she has
proved an arbitrator between factions
which have appeared
I'VE will have a good convention
think" said Mrs. Case You know, 1t
is the men who are allowed to fuss. We
won't have any quarreIs of any kind
I have been spreading Oil on the waters
We expect about so delegates. Besides
these there viii be number of women
VINO are members of the state associa-
ton, who will come from all parts of
the state and attend the convention.
There will be some good speakers and
on Wednesday night Mr.. A. H. Vance
has promised to make an address BE
sure and say that Tuesday night viii be
have our first meeting and that grand
march will be given"
At this convention the annual cleo
ton of officers viii take place. Last
year there was considerable excitement
over the election. Mrs Il. S. Albright
Of Winfield had been mentioned as a
candidate. But she attended the con
vention with 50 many delegates from
Winfield that she thought it would not
be fair to allow her name to go be-
fore the convention so it was decided
that Katie r. Addison should be push
ed to the front and that Mrs. Albright
should he favorably received as a can
cordingIy. viii be a candidate before
this convention, with the probabilities
of election Mrs. Bina a Otis viii it
is said. also be candidate. while the
friends OF Kate p. Addison claim that
the president is entitled to re-elec-
ton
A A. GODDARD. assistant attorney gen
eral, said in reference to the Santa Fe
receivership case this afternoon ssI
have given the case but little attention