The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-19
Resent the Action of the st.
Louis Convention.
WILL BOURBONS Be THE GOAT
Miss Vernon Plans to Enter
Kansas Campaign.
Expects to Keep the Admins
tratiOn Crowd Busy.

Congressional Union members are
to train all guns on the Democrats in
the presidential campaign this year.
That was the plan outlined in ST. Louis
last week by Miss Mabel Vernon and
other leaders of the suffrage organ
ization When the Blatch suffrage
resolution was rejected by the Demo-
cratic national conventions platform
committee, leaders in the cause told
just what they thought of the Bour-
bons.
Miss Vernon, who directed the
demonstration during President Will
sons visit to Topeka, was among the
Congressional Union leaders most ac-
tive in the fight for the suffrage plat
form plank She also went before the
Republican convention committee in
Chicago. The refusal of the Repub-
iicans to adopt the resolution sought
by the suffrage leaders, resulted in
more determined effort before the st.
Louis convention. But the plans as
announced by the leaders in the
Blatch crowd, indicate that the Demo
Gratis will carry the burden for the re-
fusal of all parties to make positive
declaration for national suffrage
Several hours before the platform
was read in St Louis, Miss vernon
was told of the action of the Demo-
cratic committee. The committee mad
adopted the Gait resolution, it was
stated. Had the committee fatty re-
fused to recognize the suffrage issue,
Miss Vernon probably would have
shown less feeling. The Gait and
Batch crowds are at constant war and
the acceptance of the Gait suffrage
resolution and the rejection of the one
offered by Mrs. Harriet Stanton
Blatch and the Congressional union
made Miss Vernon see red.
Miss Vernon Will Stump Kansas.
why, you don't mean the Demo-
Gratis have adopted the Gait resolu
ton and rejected the one we offered %
asked Miss Vernon. II simply can't
understand it. Why, the Gait resolu-
ton doesn't commit the Democrats to
anything. 1t merely recognizes the
principle of suffrage and doesn't COM
NIT any one to anything. They can't
dodge like that and fool the people
who demand women be given the
rights of the ballot"
Later Miss Vernon informed a State
Journal Representa- that she ex-
pected to come to Kansas during the
campaign and would take the stump
against the Democratic leaders. The
visit of Miss Vernon to Kansas will be
in the face of the action of Senator
Thompson, a member of the resolu-
tions committee, who urged the adop-
ton of strong suffrage plank. Re-
suits alone count, Miss Vernon and
her associates declared, and they have
planned a campaign that will keep
the Democrats busy until November.
when are you coming to Kansas 90
Miss Vernon was asked.
Sooner than you may expect" was
the reply of the well known suffrage
leader. ct hope to be in Kansas a
great deal during the campaign. I
shall have a number of things to say
to the women voters of the state con-
corning the action of the Democrats
in refusing to give us a suffrage plank
that means something
Miss Vernon admitted the workers
IN her cause were disappointed when
the Republican convention refused the
desired resolution. War started, how
ever, when the Democrats followed the
policy adopted by the Republicans and
gave the women a similar endorse
ment