The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-21
ADJOURN
Election of Officers Closes State
Meeting at Lawrence.
Mrs. JOhnston's Speech Feature
of Convention.

association adjourned it's convention
No change in the name of the organi-
cation is to be made the association
voting to cling to the present one.
Resolutions urging legislation to pro-
Il test widows and orphans, mothers
pension Law, enforcement of the pro-
hibitory, anti-cigarette and vice laws
and one protesting against the placing
of a statue to former Governor Click
in the hall of fame, were adopted.
Il officers elected: President, Mrs. Gene
i We've Chalkley, lawrence; first vice
| president, Mrs. Stella Stubs, Law
renee; second vice president. Mrs. E.
| E Yaggy, Hutchinson; recording sec
| restary, Miss Helen Ecker, Lawrence;
! auditor, Mrs. Mary Johnston, Wichita
| The outlook committee which decides
| the field in which the association VIII
| work, politically, is composed or the
| following: First district, Mrs. Cora w.
Rullard, Tonganoxie; Second. Mrs.
| Ella Baldwin, Kansas City; Third, DR..
! Emma Hill, Oswego; Fourth, Mrs. Sa-
| die Gresham Cottonwood Falls; Fifth,
Mrs. Mary Vance Humphrey, Junction
| City; Sixth, Mrs. Mary Travers; Sew
| enth, Mrs. E. E. Yaggy, Hutchinson;
Eighth, Mrs. Nanny Garrett, Wichita.
The members of the study club com
mittee are as follows: Mrs. w. A.
Johnston, Topeka; Mrs Dell Nellis,
| Topeka; Mrs. Vista Heath, Kansas
| City; Mrs. Mary Dobbs, Hutchinson.
| The evening program was varied
| great deal on account of the inability
| of several scheduled speakers to be
present. Mrs. c. B. Walker, of Norton,
Kan, filled the place of Mrs. Desha
Breckenridge, of Kentucky, on the pro-
gram. Mrs. Walker is the newly elect
ed president of the State Federation
of Women's clubs. In her address she
ba Gil of O work
done by the suffragists and club Wo-
men.
The chief address of the evening was
given by Mrs. Agnes L. Riddle, a mem
Der of the Colorado legislature.
Mrs. Johnston's Speech.
At the first days session Mrs. Lucy
B. Johnston of Topeka delivered a
great speech on the work of the wom-
en- for the cause. Mrs. Johnston spoke
in part as follows:
"Those who have kept in touch with
the movement in Kansas know that the
victory last fall was the result follow
ing a half century of work, including
three campaigns of a\ltation and edu-
cation and we should be most migrate
full, indeed, if we failed to recognize
the worth of our pioneers who worked
as earnestly and had more prejudice
and indignities to meet than we did |
'"The Women's Christian Temper
ance union was a faithful ally. They, |
with all other state organizations of
women, numbering in all about TO- |
900, Endorsed the amendment, and
thus officially asked for the ballot and
put a quietus on the objection, WON |
en- do not want it,
Cried as They Spent Money.
perhaps it would be interesting and |
help our new citizens to appreciate !
their liberty the more If they knew |
some of the $4,000 which came to us
was so sacred that we handled it with |
Zoo frJ1
For instance, one letter enclosed a
check for 500, representing the life
savings of Mary who wanted 1t used
for the cause in a campaign state.
I'm another was $40, from Moth
er's' money. She wanted this justice
for women, but it did not come while
she lived
Another woman wrote: This is ny
sainted mothers birthday, and 1 want
this So used in her memory
Mrs. Blank had made provisions II
her will to leave 5000 for the next CAM
paign, but thanked God it had come
while she could work as we'll as give.
Then we had the Widows mites,
many times meaning sacrifice and toll.
Many dollars came from the dear wo-
men who were too old or too i'll to
work, but wanted to have a part.
Husbands Mistaken.
You must not tell it, but there were
a few-a very few-surreptitious dol
lars from our 1AOIl WOHlGA
whose husbands were boasting that
wives did not want to vote. We hope
these women did not have to get UP
first in the morning to get the money.
We had joy dollars too, personal
ing sons and daughters, or the new
born babes.
We Could Not Fail.
How could we have failed with all
these prayers and such inspiration
back of us? All of these gifts were
thrice blessed.
"Our state has often stood out in
the limeIight, and I think it was ex-
pected that Kansas women would fur
nish amusement for the rest of the
world while working for the amend
ment.
soon after taking up our work, we
had a letter from an eastern magazine,
a skiing for an account of the spec
tacular propaganda we expected to use
in the Kansas campaign. Looking over
the situation, I could not think of |
single woman whom I would dare to
ask to carry a banner down the prin-
cipal business street of her town, or
one who would speak on street cor
ner and I answered that since John
Brown, Jerry Simpson and Carrie Ma
ton had gone to heaven, and Mary
Ellen Lease to New York, we were
rather short on the spectacular, and
would probably have a very humdrum
campaign, but that we were going to
win without either spectacular or mill
tant methods.
1.-The little woman who was afraid
of her own voice in 1911, beginning
with the membership extension work or
the collection speech, was found plead
ing most effectively for political free
dom in 1912, and the woman who stood
aghast at the mention of street meet
ing, realized it was not so bad when
she came with her machine and Joined
our automobile parties, the routing for
which had been all systema tically
MANNED and learned that through tho