The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-11

sufficient to indicate the growth of SEN
timent
The last legislature took up the mat
ter OF presidential suffrage, which can
come as did municipal suffrage. This
Dill passed the senate, but not without
hard fight; but next day. after vain
Attempts to secure assurance that il
would be killed in the house. the senate
reconsidered and defeated it. because it
would come up in the fall campaign of
19O2- The prospects are that it will
come before The 1903 legislature. There
are many more men in Kansas than wo-
men. and it would seem that their gen
eros1ty would lead them to recognize the
right of citizenship Of so many loyal
women. We urge you to attend the
convention. Hear Mr. Blackwell and
tlclpate- Kansas has not yet reached
perfection. though she is on the way.
Neither do the present voters keep
themselves so free from governmental
mistakes as to point to Kansas women
as unfit to perform the task of law
making. The convention opens at 10
O'Clock Tuesday morning in the house
OF representatives. where all Of its ses-
sions will be held except the last one,
Wednesday night, which will be in the
Auditorium.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait is serving
her third term as president of the Ma
tional Woman Suffrage association So
able had she proven herself that Miss
Anthony felt, at the time her mantle fell
upon Mrs. Cats shoulders, that she had
worthy successor Mrs. Gait had been
head and body of the organization COM
m1ttee fer several years. and had there
conducted an immense work, exhibiting
such fine executive ability that the suf-
fragists of the United States were quite
unanimous in the opinion that Mrs. Gait
was the woman best fitted to occupy the
presidential chair after Miss Anthony
had determined to resign the office
The headquarters of the National
American Woman Suffrage association
are in New York city, zoos American
Tract society building. Here the secre-
tary of the association, Miss Kate Cor
don, of New Orleans, with Mrs. Gait s
private secretary and a host of clerks
and typewrfters, conducts the business
OF the association under Mrs. Cats
supervision.
Mrs. Cats oratorical powers are equal
to her executive ability, a combination
rare in men or women. She is a clear,
forceful, impressive speaker. depending
for her success, not upon tricks of ora
tory, but upon sound thought, profound
argument and exquisite English. She is
of a charming personality, and is a gra-
clous and Womanly woman withal
When Mrs. Gait was Carrie Lane her
home was in Iowa, where she graduated.
became a teacher, and soon principal of
a public school in a county seat of that
state and later assisted in editing and
publishing county paper
Those who know Mrs. Gait declare that
she was born with 50 strong a sense IF
justice and fair play and SO much self-re-
Spect that she could not be other than a
suffragist and an expounder of the faith.
So. while she might be enjoying the so
cial whirl. or European travel or other
self-indulgence, she has elected herself
to hard worl- for the ballot for women
In this Quest she has been heard before
legislatures of state north and south and
in every territory except Alaska.
She was married to Mr.. Gait in 1888. He
is president and manager of the Atlantic,
Gulf and Pacific Dredging This
company has the government contract for
dredging in the Philippines. They have
n beautiful home at blythe
Sea. a suburb of New York. It seems ST.
most too much to say that Mrs. Gait
adds to the above mentioned fine powers
the accomplishment of first class house
Keeper. and when she wearies of affairs
of state. finds pleasure in demonstrating
that she can set a house in order and pre-
pare a dinner that would call cut the
praise of epicure; but this is neverthe-
less fact