The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-24

of the state, formed by representative
OF four other organizations of women.
will receive word OF any special
duties'
Mrs. c. A. Hoffman, of Enterprise.
chairman of the press committee for
the Equal Suffrage League, spent a
few days in Topeka the first of the
week. the guest of Mrs. w. A john
ston.
The following is from the Daily Mer-
curry, a Manhattan paper:
The first local equal suffrage as
ISOLATION in Kansas, formed since the
amendment was submitted, was organ
lied Tuesday by the College Hill wom-
en-. The organization starts off with
fifty members, quite a remarkable
showing in a country precinct with a
total vote of less than a hundred. It
is the plan of Mrs. c. A KimbaIl,
president Of the fifth district, in con-
nection with the county officers of the
association, to establish a suffrage club
in every voting precinct in Riley coun-
ty, and in every other county in the
fifth district, with the expectation that
a thousand members will be enrolled
in each county, and ten thousand in
the district. The association is com
posed entirely of women to show the
attitude of Kansas women toward the
suffrage question. The organization
was formed at a suffrage tea given by
Mrs. A. E. Coleman, assisted by Mrs
) Ohm kim ball and Mrs. c. A. Kiuball.
During the afternoon short addresses
were made by Miss Parker, a niece of
| Ex-Governor st. John OF O1athe Mrs.
J. T. Willard Mrs. z. c. Pfuetze, Mrs.
/ r. H. Swanson. Mrs D H Fisher
Mrs 'Kimball. Miss Wetzig, and Miss
Davy, of Anthony. The house was
decorated with the suffrage and the
national colors, and CARDS were dis
tr1buted, tied with the suffrage colors,
raT1 f.o,~
suffrage by Mrs. w. r. Stubs, Theo-
dore Roosevelt, Ben Lindsey, Jane Ad-
dams, Chancellor Strong. w A Nc
Keever, and w. H. Carruth.
"Of the fifty-fve women present,
fifty enrolled as members of the asso-
citation and organized a local erganiza-
4 ton, with Mrs. Coleman as president
. AS an indication of the interest taken
! In forming this organization, it should
be mentioned that though there were
four automobiles that Drought their
loads. there were also 4 number of
women who walked as far as two
miles to attend, because the horses
were in the grain fields, and the inter-
est extended from very elderly women,
with only few years before them, to
the sorority girls behind the punch
bowl"
| Carrie Chapman Gait has written a
little article, entitled do You Know -
In which she gives sone important
1 Ao1ONS SOASCA4lALS NOLcS LOT women. 1nd
| following countries have equal suffrage
organizations: Australia. Austria. Bel
GUM, Bohemia, Bulgaria. Canada,
| Denmark, Finland, France, Germany
Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Holland,
Hungary, Norway, Russia, South At
rica- Sweden. Switzerland. and the
| United States. The women of Austria
| liza, Norway, New Zealand Isle of Man,
and Finland. vote on equal terms with
the men; also in England, Scotland.
Ireland, and Wales, the women.vote at
all elections except for members of
parliament. More girls than boys are
graduating from high schools all over
this country; so that the female vote
will not be an ignorant one Two-thirds
Of the immigrants to this country are
men; so that the acknowledgements OF
| women would not increase the foreign
vote. Less than half the men quail
fed to vote. actually do vote Should
they be disfranchised because Of that
or should all women be refused the
right because some do not wish to
vote.