The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-05
EYES OF NATION
ON BLONDE ONE.
Miss Mabel Vernon Threw
Washington in a Panic.
In Topeka Leading Fight for
the Anthony Amendment.
A YOUNG AND PRETTY FIGHTER
Awful Men Captivate Her-She
just Can't Help 1t.
Wild Jim Dahlman, Omaha
Mayor, Her FavOrite.

Public interest today surrounds one
small blonde haired woman, Miss Ma
bel Vernon of Delaware. Miss YER
non today raised the lower regions to
a high plane in Washington by sending
a fiery telegram to Congressional
Union headquarters depicting a scene
of tragedy in zero weather at the Cap
per home Wednesday when the club
women called on President Wilson and
presented a resolution favoring ma
tional suffrage to him in person.
On the same day Miss Vernon,
through the State Journal. announced
that plans already have been made for
calling a monstrous conference of suf-
fragists from throughout the state to
Topeka in short time to organize
and fight increasingly for adoption
of the Susan b. Anthony amendment.
True, Kansas saw something of Miss
Vernon two years ago when like eff
fort was made but at that time events
did not shape themselves for a state
wide organization such as is planned
for this winter.
About Her Age.
= To begin with Miss Vernon is still
ON speaking terms with 80 years. She
wears militant boots of brown, a mill
fant skirt. and several years of pub
lie speaking and ceaseless lobbying for
her cause has made a truly feminine
voice more or less militant. Still in
evening clothes. Miss Vernon could
hold her own with society folks"
Miss Vernon's ideals are high. So
cial purity, only possible through wo-
man suffrage, she believes, temper
ance and like reforms comprise a por-
ton of her daily doctrine. Yet, she is
Intensely human from a feminine
standpoint.
Those Wicked Men.
The daredeviltry in man, a man
with a past which bears whitewashing
ca ptivates her to this day. For in
Stance, Miss Vernon recently made a
flying suffrage trip through Nebraska
that state of foreign settlements,
breweries and the like. She called on
Senator Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock, Will
Ham Jennings Bryan, Charles Bryan
of Lincoln, the commoner's brother,
now mayor. and last but not least.
Jim Dahlman, the cowboy mayor of
Omaha
: Dahlman is the man who, who when
he ran for governor, promised to give
a barbecue and beer drink such as the
Country never knew before on the
State house grounds at Lincoln in the
event of his election. Then Jim Dahl
man has another past, one in which his
political enemies in press, pulpit and
on political platforms have asserted he
shot men in the wild days on Ne
braska's plains.
Likes Him Best.
OF all these famous Nebraskans,
Miss Vernon liked Jim Dahlman, the
eagle eyed. graceful cowboy mayor of
Omaha. OF course, Dahlman in that
metropolis of breWeries and red lights,
didn't become a convert to the suf-
frage cause any more than he became
Converted during Billy Sundays recent
revival campaign there.
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spoke glowingly of their efforts and
maintained an almost persuaded air.
which kept them off his back. He did
the same hing during Billy Sunday
meetings and in their belief that Jim
Oahlman would hit the saw dust trail,
the fiery tongue of Billy Sunday was
tied to a great extent and Dahlman
received little blame for deplorable
Conditions existing in Omaha as pic
tured by the great evangelist.
just Can't Help 1t.
"You just can't help liking such
men," said Miss Vernon today. "And
it is hard to believe stories about him.
He was so patient and stood so long
on the court house steps waiting for
his picture to be taken"
But don't forget for minute that
Miss Vernon is pra ctical. She realizes
that national suffrage will never win
until the politicians see election win
ming votes in adopting their cause
And that's just the reason Miss Yer
non is here today-organizing the
women in such a way that adoption OF
their cause by politicians will not only
be justifiable by moral victory but BY
a practical election victory. as well.
= Miss Vernon hasn't made good" in
Kansas by any means. Yet she prom
ises well and Topeka and Kansas will
watch with interest the fruit of hel
endeavors in the next few weeks
State of Confusion.
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