The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-29
PROMINENT KANSANS THERE
Lieut.. Governor Morgan and
His Wife in the Field.
Major A. Nj. Harvey Has Been
Working in Campaign.


gGnized opposition to the votes for
women" movement
The attitude of the New YORK press
is also one of the big surprises in the
contest for state wide suffrage. The
accompanying cartoon has appeared in
Ilany prominent publications of both
ps,rties-papers which in former years
trained their AZ centimeter guns on
suffrage agitation. In view of the
change CT attitude so evident in the
columns of the New York press, the
campaign has aroused an interest that
IS nation wide. The defeat of the
suffrage resolution in New Jersey last
week was a defeat for the suffrage
advocates, but it didn't stop the New
York battle for one minute
Major A. NJ. Harvey of Topeka, VIII
has returned to Kansas after
making twenty-one speeches for the
suffrage cause, declares that in his
judgment New York state will vote 20
give women the ballot. w. Y. Morgan.
lieutenant governor. and Mrs. Morgan
are both devoting time. thought and
energy to the New York battle and
are right in the midst of the fight.
Both are making speeches for the
cause- Earl Akars, state treasurer. is
also in New York with message for
the fasteners and a testimonial con-
Kansas.
Suffrage in Kansas has received
prominent and favorable comment in
New York papers through the inter
. way and in the upstate country. Here
IS a Morgan interview in the New
York Sun:
Woman suffrage has not brought
about any of the dire disasters in Kan
sas that the antis used to prophesy be-
fore our women were enfranchised,
This is my chief message" he reit-
crates, none of those awful calamities
that the ants looked forward to so
confidently-neglec homes, hus-
bands and children-have happened in
Kansas. Woman suffrage with US is
taken as a matter of course; no one
run of everyday life. Women are
just busy as ever in their homes
and in church and missionary and
charity work, and with the ballot can
Perform these duties more efficiently.
1T seems to me, as 1 have observed
them, that women vote more seriouslT
and irtelligently than men-that may
not be saying much, to be sure. But
it has been proved in my state that
their vote is the conservative vote,
not the radical, which is a surprise to
radicals, as they were the prime NOV
ers in the campaign for equal suffrage.
Our women keep en- sure foundation;
they are economical, they believe in
Fhcme and school and church and the
Bible.
1T seems very strange to US of
the middle west that New York state,
to which we have always so looked up
as a leader, should be so far be-
hind in passing this measure of right
and justice. We have never expected
New York, like Mexico, to say
manana-
Anything that can do to help the
cause in these eastern campaign
states I shall do gladly. 1t seems as
though the testimony of an official of
an equal suffrage state ought to have
some weight in the minds of thinking
people. and 1 can truthfully say that
We men of Kansas are glad and proud
that our women are citizens with us;
state that we take it. like other bless
ings, a matter of course"
Talks to the Globe.
Morgan was also good for more
than a column interview in the New
York Globe. That papers story of
the Kansas mans visit to the big
white way with a message favoring
state wide suffrage follows:
The women who didn't want the
vote are women who are voting in
Kansas. They are the conservatives
the women who do their Homework,
who belong to sewing societies. who
go to church
1t is four years now since we have
had equal franchise in our state.
Last winter the legislature of our
state unanimously passed a resolu-
ton reciting and declaring that wom-
an suffrage had been helpful to the
state and had been accompanied by
not a single unpleasant result. Not
newspaper, not an Individual, in Kan
SaS held or expressed a contrary Opfn-
ion. Even those newspapers which
had been openly anti-suffrage before
the victory of the women have ac-
knowledged that woman suffrage has
been of direct benefit to the state and
to the individuals in the state.
1T has often been claimed by anti
Suffragists that the women who are
agitating for suffrage are the only
ones who desire to vote, and that they
are asking suffrage for all women
kind simply to crafty their own per-
sonal desire for power or publicity.
That this is not the case has been
definitely proved in Kansas The
women who have been foremost in the
great suffrage fight vote, of course
That is taken for granted. But these
women are but a small minority in
proportion of women voters is equal
to that of men. The woman who
votes is the woman who believes in
economy and morality and God. She
is the wife and mother, the sister and
sweetheart She votes just nat
urally as she goes to church, and her
voting is taken as much for granted
contact Aside from any direct re-
suit of her vote, the franchise is of
personal benefit to her. She feels her
responsibility to the community, and
there is less talk of hats and neigh
bors, and more of candidates and
whether or not this man would insist
on clean streets or hygienic schools,
than there used to be-"
Major Haryey's Experiences.
This is the story of the New York
battle as told in Topeka today by Maj.
A NJ. Harvey:
THE greatest of all in the New York
campaign is the work of Mrs Carrie