The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-28
MRS. TRAVERS--M MONROE
Sixth District Club Woman
Throws Lyddite Shell.
Whites ~Kilkenny Kitties"-
Pepperill and His Job.

Travers of Osborne. In her cOluInh
idle Talks" in the Osborne Farmer
Mrs. Travers declares that Sixth dis
trict women are not in accord with
the plan of Mrs. Lila Day Monroe OF
Topeka to unite with the party (which
makes the greatest concessions to the
new voterc," but are asking only for
laws that will benefit all Kansas peo-
pie. And in making this decision.
Mrs. Travers states that the women OF
her district will use their own judg-
ment.
Mrs. Travers is one of the able
women writers of the Sixth district
and a club woman. She is now Sixth
district committeeman of the Kansas
Citizenship league, formerly the Kan
sas Equal Suffrage association. and is
perhaps in as close touch with the new
voters as any woman in her congress
sional district. AS a club woman and
staunch temperance advocate, Mrs.
Travers not only disapproves the
policy of a state wide women's meet
ing to secure the greatest conces-
sion," but she pokes fun at the plans
Of William Allen White and the Pro-
gressive leaders to enter Mrs. Eva
Murphy of Goodland in the Sixth dis
trict congressional race.
Her Views of the "Situation."
Speaking of the women's meeting
in Topeka Saturday, Mrs. Travers in
her column says:
Representatives from the Women's
organizations Of Topeka decided to is
sue a call for a statewide conference
Of the women voters of Kansas, the
alignment with the party which
makes the greatest concessions to the
new voters The meeting will prob
ably be composed OF the few who call
ed 1t. The fact Is, the rank and ttle OF
new voters are not clamoring for
special concessions.' What they want
is safe and sane laws for all the peo-
pie. Just such as the conservative
'old voters have always wanted-but
have not always received. Demands
for special concessions may frighten
a few mushroom politicians into fool
ish agreements, but the oldtimers will
no doubt look wise and say nothing.
And the women from the rural dis
tricts will not break down passenger
coaches getting to Topeka unless con-
vinced that there is something more
worthy in the movement than now ap-
pears on the surface. Let us not ask
for special CONCESSIONS let US work
for good laws, and when the legisla-
tors are convinced OF our sincerity, we
will get them"
Lambs to the Slaughter.
Mrs. Travers characterizes the plan
of the Progressives to name Mrs. Eva
Murphy as a Sixth district candidate
as a plan to lead innocent lambs to
the slaughter. A paragraph in her
column regarding Mrs. Murphy's prob
able candidacy reads:
THE Progressives have agreed to
sacrifice a woman, Mrs. Eva Murphy,
in the Sixth district congressional
race. Very kind Of them. Mrs. MUIR
I~~w l.
er and a club woman. The only trou-
BILE is the running is too swift. The
district is already represented by a.
teetotaler and Christian gentleman
John r. Connelly-for whom the
writer can also personally vouch The
ladies appreciate the compliment in
tended. but the parties shouldn't lead
lambs to the slaughter"
The Kilkenny Kitties.
Referring to the Republican har-
monizers as the conference of the Kill
kenny kitties. William Allen White in
his Emporia Gazette pays his respects
to Senator James A. Troutman and the
harmony leaders in the following edi-
torial:
The harmony meeting at Atchison
Monday was not frost. It was a
house afire. The Atchison Cham
. .pion, which is a harmony paper. de-
'elares that many present thought it
L
man had not spoken at ALL and
Jim made the keynote speech Earl
Akers declared that he was prou! of
the prefix progressive before the name
Republican, and that he intended to
wear it. He also declared: I want to
Unidentified standpatter) made .
speech welcoming the thermometers to
Atchison in which he declared against
the primary. calling 1t the absen.
treatment method of nominating.'
Among other things Mr.. Trout
mans faux pas-them words Is French
-gloated over the fact that there were
81 defeated office-seekers at the late
Progressive highjinx at Topeka, but
neglected to say that these 50 were reg
ularly nominated on the Republican
ticket and were regularly defeated by
the regular Republicans, and by count
ing the number of standpat office-hold-
ers who were regularly elected by the
loyalty Of the Progressives last fall to
Atf1e Republican ticket. Senator Jim
Knight have added information to his
otherwise eloquent address.
But it's all right. The cruel war is
over between the Progressives and The
Republicans in one party. A few near
Progressives with acute Inflammation
of the Office may continue to irtitatc
the placid waters of the Republican
party, but the fellows who will really
fight for anti-Republican principles
which now form the Progressive plat
form, are now out on the hills away.
far OH from the gates Of gold. and there
need be no Nightmares in Dave Null
vane's and Charley Scott's beloved
sheep.
1T was not a Kilkenny cat fight at
Atchison. All the elements Of differ
ence that should make a fight were
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