The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-12-03
Will MARCH
ON LEGISLATURE.
Kentucky Women to De-
mand the Right to Vote.
Will Also Make a Hard Fight
for Many Other Needed
Reforms.


the opening Of the Legislature next
January, and the object of the cam
paign will be securing for women the
right to vote ON school questions.
No: only the Federation. which in
cludes practically every woman's club
in the Safe, but two other organiza-
tons formed for the express purpose
Of fighting for suffrage, will battle for
( the passage of bill through the Legis
/ lature embodying that feature. The
name Of the mere man who will in
/ troduce the measure has notyet been
divulged.
Two years ago the Legislature was
to pass such law, but il was included
in a provision fer commission for
Louisville 20 take the place of the
School Board. In order not 20 confuse
the issue the measure was drafted
separately and then introduced, but
unfortunately was the victim OF slow
but painless death in some committee
pigeon hole.
The women who want the right to
vote on questions affecting the schools
believe that the experience they got
at the last session will be Of value
to them in the fight which they in
tend to make, and they have high
hopes Of winning It. Mrs. .Desha
Breckenridge of Lexington, is chair
man of the Legislative Committee OF
the Federation and Mrs. Chas. p.
Weaver, of Louisville,is a member of
the Education Committee OF the or
ganization and a member of the Ma
tional Educational Association repre-
senting the federation. The two are
doing much in behalf Of the bill.
The Equal Rights League Of which
Miss Emma Hast of Louisville, is
president, and the College Suffrage
Association, of which Miss Virginia
Robinson is president, believe in
wider extension of the franchise than
the school suffrage, but they will COIL
bine their strength with the State
Federation in order 10 get that first.
With all these bodies working for it,
it begins 10 look as if the Legislators
will have 10 throw up their hands and
yield since it is now a maxim Of the
suffrage agitation that ASSIGN as the
men are convinced that the women
want the ballot they will ge5 ii.
1t has been learned that the Equal
Rights League and the College Suf-
frage Association will call mass
meeting in Louisville some time next
week, az which the suffrage question
will be discussed. The leaders of the
movement hope 20 interest the men
especially at that meeting and among
others the members Of the commercial
organization. They feel that If they
can go to Frankfort with some we'll
known bodies of men favaring their
claims they will have a better chance
Of winning.
Those who desire to see Kentucky
women grained the right Of suffrage
on school questions assert that the
women's clubs have been the most
potent influence in the SAFE has had
the awakening of sentiment infavor
Of more and better schools, and in
favor of taking the schools out Of poll
tics, and they believe that to allow
them the privilege of voting would
surely result in an improvement of the |
whole system.
The ballot-limi,ed, It Is true, but |
still the BALLOTS not the only thing |
the women want the Legislature to
give them. They arc going TO back the
bill for the creation of a State Librar
Commission, in which they are much
interested.
The Kentucky Federation has travel.
ing libraries circulating in twenty-five
mountain counties. ten Of which have
no railroads whatever, and large sec
tions of which are altogether without
books or literature of any kind. In or
der to take care of such sections and
make II possible for the people of the
neglected districts ID get more oppor-
tunities of an educational character
the Library Commission Is wanted. w
F. Yust, of the Louisville Free Public
Library is having the bill drawn.
Kentucky has long been without a
STATE flower. The women's clubs want
the bluegrass to be given that title,
and they want, also, the tulip tree to
be designated as the States official
tree. 1t is said by those who are in
tery stcd in bills providing for these
things that they have been promised