The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-16
GOES HOME ANGRY
Mrs. Lucretia Campbell, Suf-
fragette, Is Miffed.
Woman Oil Magnate Disagrees
With Other Leaders.
SHE WANTS TO QUIT.
Thinks Presidential Bill Is Ask
ing Too Much.
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SHE WANTS TO QUIT.
Still RepOses in the Senate
Judiciary Committee.

fractional strife has sprung up
and the women have started war of
their own that may rival the David
d. Leahy exposures" before the leg1s-
lature adjourns. The trouble came
Wednesday when the leaders could
not agree on a policy and each faction
has with due elaboration resolved to
go it alone.
Women who read the society col
umn will note that Mrs. Lucretia
Campbell was not a guest at the after
noon tea parties. People who spend
their idle hours in legislative halls
will also recall that this same Mrs.
Campbell is not in her accustomed
place in the lobby. She of the rabbit
fur cap has returned to her native
cline and will conduct campaign
after the teachings of her own heart.
The trouble sprang up early this
week when leaders of the suffrage
movement discussed the propr1ety OF
a n insistent plea for the passage of
the Hamilton bill allowing women to
vote for presidential electors 1t was
Mrs Campbell, who suggested that
when woman gets enough. she should
put on her bonnet, look pleasant and
go home. This opinion did not coin
eide with one possessed by Mrs. Mar
shall president of the organization;
and Mrs. Huffman of Enterprise, Kan
who is also in Topeka in the interest
OIL the movement AhCS III
clared that If Mrs. Campbell enter
tanned any such notion, she should
practice her doctrine and return TO
Humboldt. Mrs. Campbell returned.
In the interval between the CONVEX
sation and the returning, Mrs. Camp
bell meditated. She would write
letter. She wrote two letters. One
was sent to Senator George H. Hodges,
the other to Fred Robertson, Demo-
cratic leaders in the upper house. In
CtaU0nhaH stated
the situation in no uncertain language.
She was scandalized at the ungentle-
manly action of the legislature and
admitted it. Owing to the careful
study which the senators have given
the IIeahy hearing, they have neg
Iected formalities and the letters are
unanswered.
When Mrs. Campbell left Topeka,
she withdrew her forces from the field
of battle The Humboldt woman re-
minded the officers of the association
that they might conduct the campaign
according to their joint liking, but with
her assiStance-never.
1t was when the campaign was in its
infancy that Mrs. Lucretia Campbell,
.'the oil magnate' of the Humboldt
district, came to Topeka to help or
ganize the forces. Reports from fin
ancial circles are clear in their state
ment that Mrs. CampbelPs check on
the home bank is good for five figures
brought her financial rating with her.
Also she brought we'll defined repu-
tation as a suffrage worker, that en-
abled her to enter the A class.
She "AIade Medicine
After a few preliminary hearings.
Mrs. Campbell was assigned to real
practice on the legislature. She went
to work with sincerity of purpose
that helped land the plum. The Hum
boIdt woman carried a collection of
nice, smooth, easy and convincing
conversation that attracted attention
even in the legislature where talk is
selling below par. She possessed
habit of plucking obstreperous and
busy SO a day law makers from their
duties and entertaining them on the
sunny side of the suffrage boulder.
Her work was not without reward.
Sometimes a hardhearted legislator
held out. But Mrs. Campbell came
back. Perhaps the legislator held out
again. If so, 1t was undoubtedly for
as much conversation as might be Sc
cured before the roll call was taken.
Each day Mrs. Campbell came to the
legislature. Of course, there were 9TH
er women in the lobby and they also
worked hard; but somehow Mrs.
Campbell seemed to know just what
part of the stage was to receive the
attention of the spot light. She made
friends. They were not friends for
Mrs Campbell. She wanted votes for
equal suffrage. Each week she paid
her bill at the hotel from the output
of the oil wells and helped capitalize
and float the general plan of operation.
While Eliza beth Barr was busy with
the editorial column of the Club Mem
Der, Lucretia Campbell was drilling
the recruits. There was no union la
Dor label on the Humboldt womans
efforts. When a senator or green mem
Der in the house was to be visited, Mrs
% nh 11nnfad him
though the landlady might be late with
the dinner dishes as a result of the
delay.
Everything was running smoothly.
adopted. The glory was divided and
Mrs. Campbell received a chunk as
large as a slice of wedding cake. But
the Hamilton bill was tied up in that
horrid Judiciary committee. Gradually
some of the women lost their compos-
ure and made remarks. Mrs. Camp
bell chided them. Still things were
running nicely. Monday 1t rained.
Somehow, Monday is always dreary,
lonesome and draggy old day-when it
The customary discussion. Remarks
about the judiciary committee. Mrs.
Campbell again protested. Then the
storm.
Then the Humboldt oil wen owner
returned to her home. It is said some
hot briney tears entered into the
transaction. Announcement is made
that the fight will be carried on. But
Mrs Lucretia Campbell. suffragette,
lobbyist and rich oil magnate is out
of the game for keeps.
An all afternoon fight was made on
the Huffman military bill Wednesday
and the lengthy document of the gem
tleman from Cherokee county, was
cause for some lively discussion The
bill covered a multitude of alleged sins
of commission in the present manage
ment and the document plugged the
holes and put the Kansas militia on a
proper equality with the soldiers of
other states.
Among the important matters which
the bill regulated was the pay of com
missioned officers. the qualifications of
| an adjutant general and the annual
revenue to the several battalions, field
artillery. signal corps and officials who