The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
WOMEN There
BUT THEY DIDN'T
STAGE A FIGHT
Good Government Club Meeting
Was a Sensational Failure.
DIR. Harding Did Not Show Up
and Miss Vernon Did.
CANT TELL us WHAT TO Do"
Lucia Case Says Kansas Doesn't
Need Deiaware's Help.
Bombs Under Chairs Failed TO
Explode. That's All.
Good Government Club Meeting
Was a Sensational Failure.
DIR. Harding Did Not Show Up
and Miss Vernon Did.
CANT TELL US WHAT TO Do"
Lucia Case Says Kansas Doesn't
Need Deiaware's Help.

For nearly three hours Thursday
afternoon members of the Good Gov
erpmcnt club smiled and crooned and
used soft words while they elutched
their daggers and awaited develop
merits in a fight concerning the so
called interference of the congression-
al union IN the affairs of Kansas suf-
frage leaders The fight was never
staged. Maybe it was the unexpected
pre- sence of Miss Mabel Vernon sent
10 Kansas to represent the congress
sional union Maybe il was the alb
sence of Dr. Eva Harding, who started
the bitter row that involves scores OF
prominent club women of the city and
state.
Good Government club have been con
cealing the bombs which they expect
TO explode at just the proper moment
They have also tossed broken brlcks
in the back yards of members OF the
Political Science club-most bitter ana
determined enemy of the Good Gov
eminent organization All of the trou-
bles were scheduled TO break at the
meeting of the Good Government clun
in the y W. &. y. offices THURSDAY
afternoon. Yet because of unexpected
conditions the fight never started
Mrs. Case Made Leader.
Mrs. Lucia o. Case. of Topeka was
selected to direct the battle for the
Harding faction in the effort TO send
Miss Vernon back to her home town
in Delaware But when the meeting
started, Miss Vernon walked INTO the
hall and took d seat where she could
command an excellent view of the
proceedings The arrival OF MISS
Vernon was welcomed by the case
Observation-Disclosures crowd with the
same enthusiasm that London extend
ed the German air fleet-
Possibly it was the unusual and IN
expected presence of the shreWd, cieV-
er organizer for the congressional
apart for the day Miss Vernon IS
rated in class "A in debate and repair
tee So with a real big league antag-
onist the Harding crowd delayed
their fight It was not that Mrs case
was not willing to go TO war. 1t was
not that the forces recruited under the
Harding banner were not anxious 10
settle disputes 1t was hardly the OPP
perfume time to start things
Another Element of Trouble
There was another element of trou-
bic that the Case crowd did not over
| look That was the absence OF Dr.
Eva Harding their leader Dr. Hard
| ing had gone to Perry to attend
| Democrat banquet. SO no one wanted
Ito take the initiative without Dr.
Harding ia the hall 70 muster the re
serve forces For. be it known, Dr.
/ Harding herself was quite anxious for
/ the smash-up. She had few choice
and select statements which she want
ed to offer for the good of the or
/ ganiZation-
II is now probable that both sides
in the fight between the Harding
/ Johnston-Case and the MOnroe-Ver-
/ nom Mcfarland crowds Will seek an
+ early meeting of the club that their
disputes may be settled. In the mean
time the women are preparing for the
conflict.
7 don't care who knows it. the in
II reference of outside women in this af-
fair is resented declared Mrs. Lucia
L o. Case today We don't need wo-