The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-20
ARE UP IN ARMS.
Club Women Claim They We're
Sighted.
Not Given Proper Consideration
at Last Nights Meeting.
"WAS CUT AND DRIED. .
Declare Meeting Was Planned
for Political Purposes.
An Insult to All There" Says
Mrs. Monroe Today.

The meeting at the Auditorium last
night was a direct insult TO the intel
igence Of all the people of Topeka
who were there
These were the words of Lillia Day
Monroe, president Of the Topeka Fed1r-
alton of club women of this city. today
And Mrs Monroe voiced the sentiment
Of other women who made the same
statement and volunteered the same
complaint to the State Journal
That the convention last night was
-.cut and dried that it Was simply =
move to back a certain bunch Of can
didates, that only those who had pull
ed the strings of the plans were given
power to act on the candidates. that the
leaders of the meeting pulled the wool
over the eyes of the audience and acted
as they pleased" is the sentiment
ing by the club women Of Topeka
I would Ike to have all those who
were there at the meeting last night
stop and ask themselves why they
were there2' said Mrs Monroe Then
when they have realized that 1t made
very little difference to the leaders and
the chairman, I would like to have
them stop and figure out why the chair
man was asked to appoint a committee
when this same committee was type
the meeting was called to order2'
The club women are up in arms. They
think that the committee last night
which was alleged to have been chosen
for the purpose of selecting good can
didateS for office, was not representa-
tive They think that at least fifteen
or twenty women should have been
placed on the committee instead of six
or seven Furthermore they want 70
know why the many women's clubs IN
-. I'll Id hair 1.1
elect men to office who would keep the
city clean. were not represented but
were cut from the list
In former times the men have come
to US and plead with US to help them
our in elections they have watched us
polls when the rains were pouring
down." continued Mrs Monroe Then
when they select their committee they
only place seven women on it and leave
out the representatives from the Good
Government club the Municipal league,
the West Side Forestry club and sew
erai others that have been prominent
in giving Topeka a clean government
and advancing municipal interests
In spea king of the way the meeting
was carried on last night Mrs Monroe
said:
Mr.. Copeland arose and suggested
that Mr.. Sw1tzer be chairman He took
the chair at once. Then the chair was
given the power to appoint the COM
7nittee which was supposed to select
the list of candidates il. the same man
ner The general assembly was not
asked to show their sentiment The
motion for the appointment was placed
End seconded and closed before the last
no had died down among those IN
the audience The motion was placed
or. the platform among the leaders and
vas seconded in the same way No re-
marks we're asked for. This is what
made the people lose their confidence
in the meeting from the start
And 1 want to say that that card
system used last night will not bind
anyone" said another prominent wo-
man. 1--WE signed cards as We went in
which we supposed would make the
selection OF candidates for the commit
tee general We at least thought that
cn these cards. But the cards were not
touched. they were not placed in a
hat or were they called off to clerk
1t is an outrage and I hope that those
who signed them will have enough
backbone to go back on them and vote
for whom they please and not wait for
a committee selection
Il have never sat in a body Of we
men and witnessed such a thing as
took place last night" said Mrs. Mon
roe Everything was cut and dried
and there was no reason for anyone &c
to hear Mr. Aliens speech
The club women of Topeka are not
bound oy those cards and they are not
going to consider them pledges.
Green Is Surprised.
Mayor William Green was surprised
al the adverse sentiment expressed
over the city when told by a State
Journal reporter this morning.
Il cannot see how the people would
think Of such a thing as that" said
the mayor. The committee, as far as
I know includes Republicans and Dem
ocrats, and those who believe in q wide
open town as well as those who wish
tc enforce the prohibitory laws to the
letter I believe that this committee
should have been represented in every
way and as far as I know it is-al-
though I have not gone over it care
fully. If the club women feel that they
have been sighted then I believe that
their representation should have been
lncIuded-if they think that they are
rot represented 1t is a hard matter
to get up a committee of this kind and