The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-06

Mrs Kate Arlington, Of Council
Grove, candidate for vice president. is
also at the Hamilton Mrs Arlington is
enc OF two delegates from the T. P. NJ.
club Of Council Grove. which instructed
for Mrs. Cowley. This action on the
part of the Council Grove club women
has resulted in considerable show of Op-
position to Mrs. Aplington's candidacy.
and although she is thus far the only
avowed candidate for the Office. others
are being mentioned today. and the
supporters OF Mrs. Lewis viii undOubt-
edly unite upon an opponent to Mrs
Arlington Mrs E F. Porter. of Pitts
burg which is in Mrs. Cowley's district.
was mentioned several weeks ago for
the place, but it is reported that shs
will refuse to run against Mrs. ADling-
ton, who as chairman of the legislative
committee of the federation was lasi
winter closely connected with her hus-
band. State Senator Porter in getting
the public school manual training bill
through the legislature. Friends of Mrs
Porter deny, however, that she will re-
fuse to accept the nomination on this
account.
Another vice presidential possibility
being talked Of here last night and to
day is Mrs Ed Hoch, of Marion. who
is from Mrs. Aplingt0n's district. anC
Mrs. Emma E. Forter. of Marysville, -
sister Of Congressman W. A. Calder
head and very widely known through
out the state has also been mentioned.
Mrs Lewis is said to favor the election
of Mrs Hoch. but she would also be
very friendly to either Mrs Porter or
Mrs. FOrter. Mrs. Arlington is the vice
presidential candidate on the slate
arranged by the faction supporting Mrs
CoWlex-
The two candidates for auditor are
Mrs. ID. w. Wilder of Hiawa tha and
Miss Elsie Mcintosh of R2ys City. Mrs.
Eustace Brown of Olathe is a candidate
for recording secretary, but interest in
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cipal contests for the presidency and
vice presidency
The persistent rumor which has been
circulated throughout the state since the
election OF delegate to the fed
Grafton meetings began, that this
meeting would revive the row
of last year at Salina precipitated
by the resignation of Mrs. George F.
Barker of Lawrence of the Office of re-
cording secretary is absolutely denied
by Mrs. Barker, who stated to a State
Journal reporter today that she had
decided not to revive the old trouble
It is generally SUSPECTED by those who
know her best. however. that Mrs Bar
ker has something up her sleeve She
is one OF the most aStute politicians in
the federation and there is q general i'm
preston among the club women that
she is polite. Mrs. Barker makes no
secret of her sense of injustice in her
treatment at Salina at the federation
meeting last year and her enmity to the
members of the present executive board.
1t is not commonly known that the
choice of Wichita as the meeting place
for the federation this year and the
candidacy of Mrs. Lewis were largely
events of Mrs. Parker's shaping At
Salina last year she caused the impress
sion to get about that she would extend
an invitation to the federation to meet
at Lawrence this year in order to throw
her opponents off the track while she
plotted with the Seventh district women
to secure the meeting. for Wichita There
was some opposition in the Lawrence
delegation to Mrs. Barker and others
in the federation who We're unfriendly
to her united with them to oppose Law
renee as a meeting place. It was ar
ranged by the anti-Barker forces that
a motion should be made Immediately
after the Wichita delegation should have
offered its invitation for the federation
to meet in 1908 in Wichita, to accept the
offer without considering other invita-
tons
The woman selected to make the mo-
tion had her lesson so well learned that
she made the motion as soon as the