The Topeka state journal., 1916-09-30
6. o. p. Committee Arranges
for Suffrage HOnOrs.
Kansas Female Talent Will Be
Used Extensively.
ASSISTANTS HAVE Been NAMED
Aid in Work of State Chairmen
and Committeeman.
Well Known Topeka Workers
on New Program.

Kansas women will work in every
department of the political game in
Kansas in October. Under a plan by
Chr - H. Sessions. chairman of the
Republican state committee. women
will be top line speakers at many big
political meetings. Other women will
help direct the campaign from behind
the scenes and will play the political
game according to the rules as taught
by the men who have for years man
aged the big state and national poll
teal fights.
The coming of Kansas women into
their own in the political arena of the
state is one of the real features of
the campaign. Already women have
been named as assistants in the work
of the state chairman and national
committeeman. A woman is IN charge
Of the Hughes alliance movement
among the new voters. other wome:,
are to be associated witt county and
district committees in directing the
fight in the home districts. Even on
the district advisory committee, Chair
man Sessions found. place for eight
well known Kansas women.
Not one department of the game in
Kansas this year will be beyond the
voice and council of the new voters.
ticipate in the elections on an equal
footing with men. Chairman Sessions
has given women a real place in the
mana cement Of the state and national
campaigns. Nor will the recognition
of the women be appointment to MIN
or and insignificant offices. They will
work with the men until the votes are
received from the outlying precincts
election night and they will have a
hand and voice in every conference
no ole III,
hughes to the presidency and the sue
cess of the Republican state, congress
slonal and county tickets
Mrs. Prenus Appointed.
One of the first acts of Charles Ses-
sions when he opened headquarters
for the Republican state ticket was to
appoint Mrs. Noble Prentis of New
ton as assistant state chairman. This
action was followed by the appoint
ment of Mrs. w. A. McCarter of To-
peka to the position of assistant 10
Fred f. Stanley, Republican national
committeeman for Kansas Later
Mrs. w. A. Johnston of Topeka was
made chairman of the hughes Alli-
ance and Mrs. Lila Day Monroe of
Topeka was appointed - national
committeeman for the allis.-ce. Mrs.
IL. L. Peppmeyer was made president
of the first women'S alliance when an
organization was formed in Topeka.
Recently Chairman Sessions an
nounced he would give women places
on the state advisory committee. On
this committee he named Mrs. Shelf
field ingalls,, Atchison; Mrs T. L.
Hogue, Olathe; Mrs w. d. Atkinson,
Parsons; Mrs. ]. NJ. Miller, Council
Grove; Mrs. Emma Forter, Marys-
Vile: Mrs. Eva M. Murphy. Goodland;
Mrs. L. ]. Pettyjohn, Dodge City;
and Mrs. Noble Prentis, Newton
each with a congressional district un-
der her supervision. Now the plan to
give women a place in the party or
Sanization has reached county COM
mittees. In nearly every county In
the state women are being named as
assistant chairmen. Scores of precinct
committeeman have sent word TO
Topeka announcing that women Will
be named as vice committeeman.
Will Go on the Stump.
Even this broad recognition-per-
haps the greatest ever extended wom-
en- by a political organization in any
state-did not cover the plan outlined
by Sessions. He announced that wom-
en- would be sent into the campaign
10 speak from the stump. 1t was not
a plan for one or two women. 1t was
a plan for nearly two score of them.
Already Sessions has received letters
from twenty-five women who have
the campaign. All of them will be
used in October. They will be sent
TO counties where chairmen want
speeches by both men and women. In
cases where meetings are TO De du-
dressed by women only, Sessions will
send two or more women speakers.
One Kansas woman-MiSS Helen
Ecker of Iawrence-wrote Sessions
letter that came right from the heart.
She wished she might go on the plat
form for Hughes and the Republican
state committee. But her health will
not permit. None the less. her loyal
ty is genuine and Miss Ecker assured
Sessions she had postponed a trip to
California for her health that she
might remain in Kansas and vote for
Hughes for president-her first
presidential vote and the first oppor-
tunity Kansas women will have to ex-
press a choice for national executive.
Miss Ecker was Progressive party
nominee for state auditor in 1914.
Included in the list of prominent
Kansas women who have volunteered
their services as speakers in the cam
pafgn are: Mrs. c. D. Woodford,
Hutchinson; Mrs. George j. Barker.
Lawrence; Mrs. Minnie J. Grinstead,
Liberal; Mrs. Eva Morley Murphy,
GoodIand: Mrs Cora Wellhouse Bull
lard. Tonganoxie: Mrs. j. S. simmons,
Hutchison; Mrs Matte Kimball Man
Rattan; Miss Rosa 3. Cragun, King
man; Mrs. W. T. Roche, Clay Center;
Mrs ]. NJ. Miller, Council Grove; Mrs.
Emma Forter. Marysville: Mrs s A.
Blair. Wakeeney: Miss Grace Young.
Beloit: Miss Lizzie E. Wooster, Salina
Mrs. a. C. Coolidge, Smith Center;