The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-27
COME TO Topeka
Eastern Suffrage Leaders May
Move Here.
This State Could Aid in Win
ming the Ballot.
LOOKING TO The WEST NOW
Defeat in New York and New
Jersey DiscOuraging.
Kansas VIII Profit Materially
From New Move.
LOOKING TO The WEST NOW

Eastern suffrage leaders are plan
ming to move to Kansas in order to
win the ballot. A movement started
in New York a few days ago by Mrs
Harriet Stanton Batch will probably
| mean that a number of prominent
eastern women will move to Topeka in
the next few months that they may
vote in the 1915 election. Some of
these women are rich. They will not
only make Kansas their permanent
| homes, but will invest their money and
pay their taxes in Kansas.
That Kansas is to profit materially
from the equal suffrage amendment
is the belief of a number of women
who have watched Mrs. Blatch's
movement to bring eastern suffra-
gettes to this state. Defeat of suf-
frage in New Jersey and New York in,
the recent state wide elections is said
to have disguised number of eastern
women and they look to a home in
the western state in realization of their
dream of the ballot.
Only Six Months Here.
In Kansas but six months are re-
quired in which to win the ballot. In
a number of other states where suf-
fraSe has been given the women,
years residence is required before
new voter has attained his or her
eastern women. Their lawyers have
investigated the ballot laws of the
various states and Kansas is their new
Utopia.
Why Not Move?
Years ago Mrs. Blatch questioned
women who were for suffrage and for
laws different from those in their
home states as why they didn't move
to the states that had laws in which
they believed. After the defeat of wo-
man suffrage in the East this fall she
determined to practice what she so
OFTEN suggested as a possible panacea
Tor others She announced her plan
at the recent convention of suffra gists
quite a company of followers
BY March, when the party will leave
Tor their new political home if thew
don't change their minds Mrs. Blatch
expects to have enough followers to
make a noticea BILE difference in the
tax payments of some of the eastern
states next fall Among the women
who consider her project with favor
Lawrence Lewis of Philadelphia, and
Mrs. Stanton Lawrence, Mis- Nina Van
Wrinkle of New Jersey.
Canada of the Women
When It was suggested to these
women that they might be running |
away from the issue, they compared |
themselves to the negro slaves who |
sought freedom in Canada. The west, |
ana Kansas in particular, is 20 be the |
Canada of the women who think they |
are slaves to an unjust political sys- |
tenn.
With the coming of the women to
Kansas, the Eight for national suf- |
frage Will be waged with renewed |
vigor. With the new blood in |
Kansas, this state will be made the
center of suffrage activities The east
ern women have been through red |
hot fights for the ballot and with the
aid and support of their Kansas sis
tiers, will go into the campaign for a
national suffrage amendment.
Hope They VIII Go.
The leaving OF the fasteners for
the west, will be greeted with joy by
many men and some women who have
the granting of the ballot to
the women.
Il hope they will CO. is the remark
credited to Alice Crittenden of New
Y ork, head of the national associa-
ton opposed to equal suffrage. They
will never get anything that they
want here
Charles S. Fairchild is credited with
the remark:
IF the women think the vote is
worth living in Kansas for, let them
20 there and may they be satisfied
But to the women, it is real pill
5rinage- emigration of the
r~r-ir Tot,