The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-08
ALL is PEACE.
Kansas Federation AdjOurns in
Utmost Harmony.
All the ROngh Places Have Beer
SmOOthed Out.
ADJOURN THIS MORNING
New and Old officers and Com
mittees Confer.
Mrs. Horton, of Topeka, Dele
gate to Biennial.

Wichita, Kan, May S.-With the con
ference of the new and retiring offices
and chairmen Of standing committees at
s o'clock this morning the eighth annual
meeting of the Kansas federation OF
women's clubs officially known as the
Kansas Social Science federation came
to an end. after a three days conven.
ton in this town. The new officers are
Mrs. Cora G. Lewis of Kingsley, wife
of J. NJ Lewis, editor of the Kinsley
Graphic, president; Mrs. Kate Apling-
ton of Council Grove, retiring chairman
of the legislative committee of the fed
GRAFTON, vice president; Mrs. Eustace H.
Brown of Olathe, recording secretary;
Mrs. J. T, Willard. of Manhattan,
treasurer; Mrs. d. W Wilder of Hia-
watha, auditor. The state delegates to
the next biennial of the national feder-
alton which will be held at St. Louis
next year are for the First district, Mrs.
Taylor of the Art league of Leaven-
worth, Mrs. A. H. Horton of Topeka,
alternate; Second district, Mrs. George
Kingsley of Paola, Mrs. H w. Wright
of Ottawa, alternates Third district,
Mrs. E. F. Porter of Pittsburg, Mrs. w.
w. Curdy. Edna, alternate; Fourth
district, Mrs. J. NJ. McCown Emporia,
Mrs. Sadie p. Grisham. alternate; Fifth
district Mrs. Alden F. House of Man
haitian, Mrs. c. B. Hoffman. Enterprise,
alternate; Sixth district, Miss Elsie Nc
Intosh, Hayes City. Mrs Albert L.
Shire, OF Lincoln, alternate; Seventh
district Mrs. w. Y. Morgan of Hutch
inson, Mrs r. P. Murdock of Wichita,
alternate.
There were 366 accredited delegates to
the state federation at Plymouth Con
of the eighth annual meeting have been
held when the president called the con-
Vention to order Thursday morning, and
announced the election OF officers and
delegates to the next biennial meeting
of the national federation as the order
of the day. OF these the Seventh dis
trict had 157 votes to support its presi-
Dental candidate. The Third which also
had a candidate. Mrs. CoWley OF Column
bus, for pr esident had SO delegates. The
First was next with 49, The Second
had 80 the Fourth 26, the Fifth IS and
the Sixth 10 There were four ex-presl-
dents who are, according to the fedora
ton constitution, life members with the
right to vote. and eleven individual
members.
After the report of Mrs. H. B. Asher
of Lawrence, chairman of the credentlal
committee, Mrs. l.. B. Kellogg of Efn-
porla, chairman Of the committee on the
revision of the constitution, gave the
report of the findings of her committee
which was unanimously adopted with
an amendment by Mrs. Wright OF juno
ton City that the clause which pro-
vides for individual membership be
stricken out or amended. The adoption
of the committee report does not finally
settle the matter of the revision OF the
constitution 1t was merely ths lrSl o.
the two votes necessary to its amend
ment. The matter will be voted upon
again at the next annual meeting when
there will be no election and when the
matter viii probably be the prnclpai
business of the federation.
The nomination by districts of the
delegates to the biennial at St Louis IN
1904 followed the general election.
It was al this point that the question
was raised of the election of new state
secretary of the general federation. rms
position has been held by Mrs. c. C.
Goddard of Leavenworth for two years.
hoard at Leavenworth and reappointed
last year at Salina- Meanwhile the gen
eral federation has amended ana re-
vised it's constitution, and the bylaw
relating to the state secretaries PROVIDES
that they shall be appointed by the state
federatiOns without fixing the duration
of their office Heretofore they nave
held for two years. 1t has been rumor-
ed for several weeks that a movement
was on foot headed by Mrs George
Barker of Lawrence to Oust Mrs Cod
dard and that she would be aided ana
abetted bV twelve LeaVenWOrth women
Rllt the plot. Il ptOJ lQeIe were, Atil
through and fell very fat. The Leaven-
worth women never peeped and the dis
cussion started by Mrs. l. r. Prlddy OF
Wichita and taken up by Mrs Baker,
Mrs Kellogg Mrs. Mary Vance Humph-
rev and others was finally settled by a
letter from Mrs. Fox of Detroit, tde
official parliamentarlan of the general
federation. which said that any appoint
ment made before the new ruling of the
federation had been published would
hold until its expira ton. This, which
was expected to be one of the sharply
contested and exciting points of the
meeting. was a great disappointment to
the chronic seekers of trouble
The election of Mrs Lewis to the
office of president of the Kansas Social
I Science Federation yesterday was tri +
umph for the Seventh district ma
chine which since its work in the
campaign of Mrs Lewis can not here
after be regarded otherwise than as
powerful factor in Kansas club poll
tics. Mrs. Lewis managers, Mrs Geo
Winans of Hutchinson. Mrs. 5.
Peters Of Newton Mrs. r. p Murdoch
and Mrs. b F. Miller of Wichita. Mrs
L. J. Pettyjohn and Mrs. W. Y. Morgan
of Hutchinson, mustered 157 votes foi
their candidate in the Seventh district
alone. the largest delegation from any
one district that has ever attended "a
Kansas federation meeting. Mrs. Ches-
ter J. Long. of Medicine Lodge. must
also be credited with excellent work is
Mrs Lewis behalf. although she has
not been counted among her managers
and her efforts We're especially useful in
promoting general harmony in the fed
Grafton and aVerring an unpleasant row
! in the Seventh district
Tt has been said that the Seventh dis
trict was a unit in the support of Mrs
Lewis for state president, and this IS
true so far as the delegates We're con.
cerned, but it was persistently rumored
from the beginning of the convention
that Mrs. Fred Dumont Smith. who IS
from Mrs. Lewis home town, Kinsley