The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-05
SUFFRAGE NOTES

Mrs. J, D. Corbet president of the
Shawnee County Suffrage association,
is making plans for a meeting which
Will be held soon at one of the Grange
halls Of the county, probably Indian
Creek. The women of the outlying
districts will be organized into assocla-
lions and clubs, and this work will be
carried on all over the county. The
date for the meeting at Indian Creek
has not yet been set, but it will be i'll
the near future.
Mrs. Harmon Ryus of Los Angeles,
formerly Miss Nellis of Topeka, was
one of the women who distributed suf-
frage literature in a unique way a a
public celebration in her city recently
A balloon ascension was one of the
features of the public entertainment
and three members of the suffrage as
ISOLATION of the city took the balloon
trip and dropped leaflets and nam
the crowd and onto the surrounding
country.
Members of congress in amending
the bill which will make the election
of senators by direct vote, are asked
to make the women eligible as electors.
The members reply to the letters max
ing the appeal for the most part, with
the word that it will have their care
full consideration. One man so far
commits himself as to say: SHOULD
the opportunity arise, / shall be glad
to act according to the dictates of my
conscience However, Kansas
congressman, Fred S. Jackson writes
frank avowal which is much appre-
ciated by the petitioners, as follows:
Il shall be pleased to do anything /
can to promote the opportunity of
women to participate in the election
of United States senator's"
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin
says: Il hope the time Will come
when this great body of intelligent
people, these women, will no longer
have to petition congress for what is
their right, in a land which boasts Of
equal opportunities for ALL"
According to suffrage prophets Cali
fornia will be the sixth state to raise
! its WOmen-400, 600 of them-tO the
full stature of citizenship Lately hy
| its vote of 33 to in the senate and
50 to 3 in the house, put the question
to the people, and as special election
will be held October 10, the women
were hurried into a quick campaign
Mr.. ]. H. Braly, a millionaire of Pasa
dena, organized interested men into a
Political Equality league. Later wom-
en- were added to the membership, and
together with the votes-for-two men
club of Los Angeles, warm contest
is going on. In San Francisco seven
clubs hold weekly meetings at the
Savoy theater. Automobile squads
touring from one end of the immense
state to the other. make a town to
town appeal. On a former occasion
when the question wa submitted to
the people, it carried except in San
Francisco and Oakland.
Omar E. Garwcod, secretary of the
Colorado Equal Suffrage Aid society
316 Tab9r opera house block, Denver
Col, announces that he will be pleased
at any time to answer inquiries con
corning equal suffrage in Colorado as
association Is endeavoring in every way
to convince the people that the mer
of the state. af'er II years of experi
ence. unqualifiedly endorse eq,I-l suf
frage. and that women should have the
elective franchise. fl st because It i:
right in principle, and second, because
it is eminently satisfactory in practice
They will send men to California II
help in the campsign there.
The following are comments o
prominent Ka lsas men on he subiac
of woman suffrage: by the way, wht
gave man the right TO decide this mat
ter anyhow? Why haven't women as
much right to disfranchise men al
men have to disfranchise women? Ism
it. as a matter of fact s. brutal usur,
patton of power. a relic of primitiv,
barharity when might made right. W.
worthy of d chivalrcus modern man
| hood. I believe the time is Fastening
wncn the manhood nd womanhood o
our land will be mutually blended in eiVi
government as they are now blended 4
the highest and best type of civil gov
| ernsn. NTH ideal home. '-Ex Go~er
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