The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-22
BREAK into PRINT
By Doing Things That Make
News, Advice.
Mrs. Edna Cutter Tells Women
to Be Spectacular.
SEE VICTORY IN KANSAS
Mrs. Hoffman Believes Women
VIII Get Votes.
Mrs. Johnston Tells How Cam.
paign Is Made.


Chicago, May 22.-Suffragists We're
advised to do spectacular things in or
der to obtain newspaper publicity by
Mrs. Edna Cutter, corresponding Sec
rotary of the Kansas City Equal Suf-
| frage association at the Mississippi
Valley Suffrage conference. Her sub
| ject was, Methods OF Reaching the
Press
while we may not believe in the
methods of the English suffra gettes, >
she said. they unquestionably create
news worthy of display under big head
| lines and calling for photographs. This
forces people to read and. think about
the subject.
BE spectacular, which is possible,
without being outlandisE. Do the things
that will force the Indifferent to read
of suffrage. Particularly do those
things which will prove suffrage is not
a fad of the idle rich, but that it stands
for the betterment of all grades of their
sex"
Mrs. Lucy r. Johnston, president of
the Kansas Equal Suffrage association,
and wife of the chief justice of the su-
preme court of that state, told of the
campaign her state is making to win
the constitutional amendment, provid-
ing for full suffrage, which is to De
voted upon next November.
Mrs. Johnston after detailing the two
previous equal suffrage campaigns in
Kansas, said:
THE Kansas Equal Suffrag e associa-
ton planned to push this campaign. for
the amendment along three special
INSTRUMENTATION, education and pub
licity. Three state chairmen were APP
pointed to outline ard conduct the
work. We have eight congressional dis
tricts in the state with a district presi-
dent in each. and we have q district
chairman of the three departments Of
work in each congressional district or
ganization. This same plan is carried
down into each county as fast as they
are organized for suffrage work We
have in all, los counties. When all are
organized and the committees appoint
ed in the voting precincts there will re
several thousand women besides the
general membership working for the
amendment.
Eighty-Ffve Counties Organized
There are now IS counties organi.
ed and the remainder of them will soon
be visited by our field workers. Thi:
has been our plan for organization
work, and should give US thousands
of campaign workers.
THE education work is being push
ed along many lines, but perhaps the
most interesting, and helpful has beeli
the prize essay contests and deba tex
in the country schools, interesting chill
dren and parents alike, and insuring
us many votes in the rural districts
We have had speakers in all of the
various state conventions where con-
sistent, and have always asked for en-
dorsements. Not one of our state or
CARNATIONS has refused to give us
hearty endorsements. Among these
have been the State Federation of La
Dor, the State Teachers association
State Grange, state board of control
state board of agriculture, State Tenn
perance Union, State Editorial associa-
ton, Womans Press club, Woman's
no OH he TT
all of the Methodist conferences, In
terstate Literary association (colored>
State Sunday School association and
the eighth district Federations of
Womans clubs and others.
This educational work will be fol-
lowed up during the summer by tax
ing advantage of the teachers instl-
tutes, the Grange meetings, chautau-
quas and fairs.
THE newspapers of Kansas are gen.
orally favorable, our press women in
the country districts are doing good
work. The politicians, the officehold-
ers, and the officeseekers were in our
two previous campaigns arrayeC
against us. This is not true at this
time we have ten members in our
congressional delegation and eight OF
them have declared in favor of the
amendment.
Mrs. C. A. Hoffman of Enterprise,
chairman of the press committee of
the Kansas State Equal Suffrage as
ISOLATION, told of the work of her
committee in aiding the campaign of
Kansas women for full suffrage
1.-THE women of Kansas" said Mrs
Hoffman, "have less to contend with
in their work for suffrage than the
women of any other state. We are
quite accustomed to voting, having had
school suffrage for thirty years and
full municipal suffrage for twenty
five years.
1--WE who have passed through the
several political stages of Kansas,
from sweeping sure Republican major
tiles to reaction and Populist rule, and
now that we see the same Populist
principles called insurgency and
quite as 'sweepingly popular in all
parties feel that the vote for women
is sure to come.
''This fall there is no militancy need
ed in Kansas. There is no active
work against woman's suffrage. The
press is apparently in full favor of
the ballot for women-there is the
the organized societies of women-the
State Federation of Women's Clubs,
the Christian Temperance Union, with
their great leader in Kansas, Lillian
Mitchner. are devoting all their eff
forts to winning our amendment
'1t is my special work to keep in |
touch with the press of Kansas on |
suffrage and 1 meet with such con-
that I am perhaps too op-
keeps me working all the time for |
the ballot for women. We are touring
in automobiles, even now, speaking
and getting signers to our member
ship and just wish I had time to tell |
YOU of the splendid personnel of curl