The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-20
READY FOR HIM.
Topeka Women Have Word of Coming
of Suffrage Enemy.

The following letter concerning DR..
Clarence Wilson, who will come to To-
peka to fight the passage of the suf-
| frage amendment, was received by Mrs.
! w. A. Johnston, from the Woman S
club campaign committee, of Colorado:
Dear Mrs. JohnSton:-I am writing
/ for Mrs Sarah A Evans, chairman OF
| this committee, who instructs me to
say that you are soon to have with
you one DR.. Clarence True Wilson,
4 Methodist minister of rs Portland who
| is trying, with such. might and main
as he can muster, to work against wo-
| man suffrage. He has appeared in
| two debates here, and his arguments
or sentimentalisms, rather are not
much to be feared; but he persistently
| misrepresents facts as to Colorado,
California and other enfranchised
! states.
/ We are enclosing some clippings
which are self explanatory, and would
also add, to prepare you against any
! statement to the contrary that he may
make that DIR. ]. Whitcomb Brougher'
| formerly of Portland, but now of Los
Angeles, has not changed his views
| on suffrage. In his debate here re-
Gently, Dr. Wilson said that DR..
| Brougher, being disappointed in the
way the women failed to vote for GER
tain prohibition measures in Los An
geles had rebuked the women from the
| pulpit, cried out that he was ashamed
| of them, disguised, and sorry that he
| had ever advocated womans suffrage
which had proven failure, and fhas
if he had it to do over again he would
certainly not help to give the women
of California the ballot.
We wrote to DR.. Brougher about
this. and his reply fatty denies Dr.
Wilson's statements about him. He
saws. on the contrary, that he is more
than ever in favor of womans SUI
frage and that if he had the power to
do so. he would give the women OF
every state the ballot; by way OF en-
phasis, he says he is not ashamed, OUT
proud of the women of California, eX-
cept for whom Los Angeles would TO-DAY
be in the hands of the I. w. SIS. He
adds, by way of explanation, that ne
did reprimand the women of his con-
gregation because he thought the wo-
men should have voted more generally
for prohibitive measures but that MS
convictions are unchanged.
DIR. Wilson will probably also mis-
,enresent the women of Pasadena, Cal,
whom he pictures as being led around
by the nose by the millionaire brewer
Mr. Busch, because he has built very
beautiful sunken gardens in Pasadena
and threatens to leave the town ana
DESTROY his sunken gardens unless the
women permit wet town AS
matter of fact as we understand II
here. the only issue on the liquor ques-
dena should have a license to serve
wines and liquor to their guests in
their dining rooms; and this the Wo-
men voted for. DR.. Wilson would have
MS all believe that they voted saloons
into a city famous for never before hav-
ing had saloons, and pictures the beau
tifuI southern home town as being now
in the hands of the liquor trafhc, ruined
and in the rank wet" cities, all on
account of the demoralizing effect of
woman's suffrage.
DR.. Wilson will be with YOU very
shortly, and Mrs. Evans wished to
have you forewarned and ready for
him as much as possible.
The campaign is going very actively
here, with excellent prospects of sue
cess. We are all hoping that Oregon
will be one of the new stars on the
suffrage flag on November 5.
Please let us hear of your expert
ences with DIR. Clarence True Wilson
and any other matters of interest in
your campaign. We are all keenly in
terested in the struggle of Kansas and
Ohio.
woMAN's CLUB CAMPAIGN COM
MITTEE.