The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-20
WOMEN IN EARNEST.
Make United Effort to Secure Presi.
dental Suffrage.

AT O'Clock this morning a large
committee, composed of men and wo-
men waited upon the house committee
on elections in whose hands just now
hanss the fate of the presidential
Suffrage bill. Perhaps one man has
| II IN his power to say whether or not
women in Kansas may vote for presi-
dent
RoDt. Stone, representative, spoke
first for the suffrage bill He asserted
now Is the time to grant this right to
women. The time of the Committee
was limited and speeches had to be
| brief.
Secretary F. D. Coburn spoke for
the equality of men and women in
tellectually and said that it would
seem to him that the men of Kansas
would be ashamed not to grant this
! right to their wives, daughters and
| mothers.
Rev. F. N. Lynch spoke for women
as always ready to help men bear the
! burdens Of either war or peace-glor-
Tying his aged southern mother in
| her loyalty to the government as she
saw 1t through her southern eyes.
1. Gilberg spoke from the view
point Of labor. He epitomized the
situation by saying: Politics is the
science of economies" Women are
| in the trades factories, mines To
protect their interests they should be
in politics.
Willis ]. GIeed paid a tribute to the
women of Topeka, showing to the
committee that they had handled in
telligently and to the purpose, on the
side of right and virtue their modi-
cum OF municipal suffrage with which
| they are invested.
| DR.. s. G. Stewart, the chairman of
| this committee voiced the sentiment
of all present by declaring that the
emergency existed just as much in
H. to- ffv-C<
for woman as for the primary bill.
Ex-senator Geo. P. Morehouse
spoke for the bill also telling the
| committee that it would be better not
to hide behind any subterfuge, but
to come out braye1y and decide the
| case on it's merits.
A number of attorneys and judges
| were present to give the committee
| their legal advice on the bill but the
| time was too short for much argu-
to pay the committee the compliment
of not urging something that they
were posted upon anyway.
| After the hearing the committee
| Of about one hundred men and wo-
men marched into tho governors Of
flee and DR.. Stewart urged that a
special message be sent In favor Of
| the bill to the legislature at once.
| Here is partial list of the local suf-
| frage committee:
| Following are members of the Equal
| Suffrage committee:
DR.. S. G. Stewart, chairman; Secre-
tary F. D. Coburn. Attorney General
Fred S. Jackson, John Macdonald,
| Western School Journal, DR.. w. A. Nc
Carter, James Troutman, Rev. J. H
Jones, Rev. S. S. Estey, Judge Lee Mon
roe, Chas. K. Holiday. R. J. Hubbard,
George Morehouse, Councilman c. G.
Blakely, L. S. Levitt, Harry G. Larri-
mer, Councilman ]. F. Snyder, A S.
| Swendson, P. I. Bonebrake, Chas. j.
Marshall, VIM. T. Cowles, ex-Repre-
sentative John B. Sims, Councilman E.
Montgomery, E. H. Anderson of school
board, Chas. Trap, VIM. Green, mayor,
| DIR. NJ. r. Mitchell, E. A Auerbach,
| Rev. -Chas. A Finch, R. G. Carvery, w.
| Harrison, Prof E. B. Cowgirl of the
Kansas Farmer, w. w. Mills, DR.. w.
S. Lindsay, Hugh Mcfarland, Geo. w
Martin, historical association, ex-
Mayor w. S. Bergundthal, DR.. Chas.
M Sheldon. Frank H. Foster, Rev J.
A. Renwick, James Butler, A. E. Jones,
DR.. S. ]. Crumbine of board of health
J. s. Wier, I. Gilberg, Rev. D. M. Fisk
Albert Griffin, C. w. Shepherd, F. H
Grattan, r. P. March, Robt. B. Steele
Councilman H. B. Howard, Rev. F. N
Lynch Willis J. Gleed of school board
L. H Greenwood, H. B. Kelly, Judge
Il c. E. Foote Frank Blanch, Thomas j
Anderson, Councilman c. E. Jordan
Luther Bailey.