The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-27
Mrs. McIvor Of Sheridan and
Miss Worcester of Graham.
BOTH Are PROGRESSIveS
Hodges to Hold Two Big Meet
ing in Lincoln County.
Progressive Meeting in Norton
County May 2.

Two Sixth district women-Mrs.
Mary MclvOr of Sheridan county and
Miss Matte Worcester of Graham
county-will probably be candidates
for the legislature this fall. They are
the first women candidates for the
state legislature in Kansas. Both are
Progressives
With women making the race for
almost every office in the state from
associate justice of the supreme court
to township clerk, it il only natural
that few Kansas women may be can
didates for q place in the state law
making bodies The Sixth district and
the Progressive party will probably be
the first to announce women as can
didates for representatives. The Sixth
district already has a woman candi-
date for congress, Mrs. Eva Merely
Murphy of Goodland having an
on the Bull Moose ticket and will con-
test Congressman John r. Connelly's
claim to reelection.
Reports from the Sixth district are
to the effect that both Mrs. McIvor
and Miss Worcester will make early
announcements as legislative candi-
dates
Mrs. McIvor is the wife of Frank
| McIvOr, provisional secretary OF the
Sixth district Progressive committee.
| McIvor is also editor of the Hoxie SEN
| tinel and in Sehridan county Mrs.
McIvor is as widely known and popu-
lar as her husband. Each week she
| writes a column of terse news items
for the women and these interesting
paragraphs are published in the Sem
tinel. She Is an ardent Progressive
and with the probability of a Bull
Moose ticket in Sheridan county. it is
claimed that Mrs. McIvor will receive
the third party's nomination as repre-
sentative.
In Graham county, the Progressives
will also have q woman candidate for
the legislature, it is claimed. Miss
Worcester. who is q devout believer
in the principles OF the new party is
being urged to enter the race for state
representative to succeed J. H.
Schlicher, Democrat, who will this
year ask for the Democratic nomina-
ton for secretary of state. Miss
Worcester was for several years a
and a few years ago was elected coun-
| ty superintendent of Graham county.
Her home is in Hill City.
Lincoln County's Big Day.
Two Lincoln county tOwns-LincOln
and Vesper-are planning big celebra-
lions Tuesday when Governor Hodges
will be the guest of Lincoln county
citizens and Democrats. The opening
of new opera house in Vesper, a
small town in the center of rich
farming district, is the occasion for an
all afternoon jubilee and Governor
Hodges will be the principal speaker
at the dedication OF the new amuse-
mcnt hall.
At night, Governor Hodges will
speak at a big Democratic banquet in
Lincoln and plans have been made for
the seating Of several hundred men and
women at the dinner of Lincoln coun-
| ty Democracy Judge Frank Doster,
Of Topeka, candidate for Democratic
nomination as United States senator.
and Samuel E. Bartlett, Of Lincoln.
Democratic candidate for attorney
general, will also speak at the meet
! ing. The governor will leave Topeka
| tonight and will be taken in an auto
mobile from Salina to Vesper.
| Fifth District Republicans Peeved.
Republicans in the Fifth district have
not taken kindly to the efforts of the
Capper following to crowd ]. E. Brewer
of Abilene of the state ticket as a
candidate for lieutenant governor. With
| Brewer or the ticket, the Fifth dis
trict will have no representation on the