Evening journal., 1914-07-30
WOHAN CANDIDATE
FOR CONGRESS alive
Kansan, If Elected, VIII Be
Progressive In All
Legislation
IS BELIEVER IN
EQUAL SUFFRAGE
BY Tho United Press.

by Inc lnitcd tfcss.
COODLAND. Kans., July SO-Irri-
cation. better transportation, better
schools and better laws for women
are the four cardinal principles in
The platform Of the only woman can
didate for Congress in kansas since
the equal suffrage amendment to the
State constitution was adopted Mrs
Eva Morley Murphy GoodIand, is the
Progressive candidate for Congress
in her district, and pouucians say
she has chance TO win because Of
the things she stands fer and because
the present Congressman has been
afraid to take any definite stand on
many propositions which have had
popular approval
q have lived for % years in this
Congressional district. among the
gritty, cheerful hopeful, Industrious
and progressive people who have
been turning il from barren plain
into a delightful community of
homes said Mrs. Murphy today. Il
have done my own small part in this
work. / know the needs OF the peo-
pie in my district
More extensive irrigation work is
needed and should be carried on by
government supervision. The West
needs better wagon roads and more
railroads, more trains and lower
freight ratos-at low enough figures
10 be an induccment for people to
move into that territory and not have
to pay cxorbtant prices for what
they need. and low enough for them
to be able TO ship their products out
an profitable figure.
Good ROADS will mean better
schools for US ana better attendance.
Good roads will mean more graded
schools the most efficient teachers
end the best equipment. In the West
the settlers are so few that TO have
really efficient schools they must be
$50 far away from many homes that
tho children must be hauled miles
over poor roads ~ indeed, at some
seasons of the year the poor roads
Wili normit of travel at all Good
roads enhance the value of the land.
Yhcy make for more and better neigh
lors better community life and other
similar things that make life as a
whole better and happier.
National suffrage and national
prohibition are coming propositions
before the country There are some
States where women are regarded as
"a sort Of necessary evil. In these be-
righted States women have no right
60 hold property in their own name.
/ They are not permitted TO have any
/ thing to do with business affairs.
They nave nothing TO say about how
property that belongs to them shall
tC taxed They arc as had off legally
as the slaves were before the civil
var. Even Kansas laws do not give
women the same equality as is ac-
corded the men, but in other respects
( Kansas Is far ahead of many other
States.
III 7 am elected to Congress,
shall work for every progressive
measure. ! care not who nor what
I party is behind IT, I shall work for
the things that will make life.
! believe the fact that J am wife, a
/ mother, and a grandmother will aid
me in representing the PEOPLE of the
/ Sixth Congressional district and to
/ Obtain as a member OF Congress,
more equitable laws for all people OF
cur country
Mrs. Murphy has been an active
worker IN the Womans Christian
Temperance Union for many years,
: ana she has participated in many
/ political campaigns in Kansas and
other States where temperance and
/ prohibition have been an issue. She
/ has helped in the defeat and vic
/ tory of several candidates in her own
( county and district and is an eloquent
/ and brainy campaign speaker.
She has frequently been urged to
run for Office in the past. but she has
/ steadily refused She always said
/ she wanted to wait until her chill
/ dren were all grown Finally. when
! the Progressives urged her to run
for the nomination on their ticket,
/ she decided TO try IT, Her husband
/ viii aid her IN her campaign. There
were several men who wanted the
/ Progressive nomination but when
they heard that Mrs Murphy had
proposed 10 try for the nomination
| they dropped out. Several Demo-
Gratis and Republicans are actively
supporting Mrs Murphy from the
Sixth district but supporting candi-
dates on their respect hve tickets in
other sections of the State.