The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12
MUST WIN FIGHT
STATE BY STATE
SAYS MRS. Gait
Equal Suffrage President Tells
of Her Work.
Here to Arouse Kansas Women
to Greater Interest.
HAVE A VOTE AND GAN HELP
Plenty of Duties in Connection
With the Big Amendment.
Guest of Mrs. Arthur Capper
and Mrs. w. A. Johnston.
HAVE A VOTE AND GAN HELP
Plenty of Duties in Connection
With the Big Amendment.
Guest of Mrs. Arthur Capper
and Mrs. w. A. Johnston.

An eminent representative of the
great woman movement" of the
world, is in Topeka today, Mrs Carrie
Chapman Gait, president of the Ma
tfonal American Equal Suffrage asso-
citation. and head of the international
suffrage league She is just such
woman as is best fitted to lead a force
which has for it's object the enfran-
chisement of half the civilized race;
for the suffrage movement has just
that in view-placing the privilege of
seIf-government cat least so far as
men enjoy it, in the hands of all the
women of all the nations. She is a
woman OF mature years, IN her second
widowhood, with a world OF concen-
trated energy in every motion and
look She is deliberate and thought
fui of speech, with every appearance of
being bored to extinction by gush and
compliment
In reply to a question as to her OBJ
iect in coming west, she said, 4 am
visiting Kansas with the particular OBJ
ject of arousing in Kansas women
greater interest in the passage Of the
federal suffrage amendment Kansas
women have the vote. and can assist
in various ways through their repre-
sentatives. We have our Congression-
al committee always at work in Wash
ingtOn, interviewing the law makers.
and urging their cause. But that alone
never gets US anywhere, and there is
other work for the women in connec-
ton with the national amendment.
The fight will have to be won state by
state. until we have our necessary del
egation in congress"
Visited IS states.
Mrs. Gait is making a trip through
the middle west, and since the first
of January. has visited eighteen states
vn-f1T ~=Tr al l. i
states to take part in a suffrage de-
monstration in Chicago and one in St
Louis Kansas will be requested to
send to St. Louis representative and
this and other suffrage states will be
allowed one program of the conven-
ton This suffrage convention in St
Louis is to he held June II Mrs
Gait will urge upon Kansas women
that they are represented at that meet
ing
Guest of Mrs. Capper.
Mrs Gait arrived this morning, and
will remain in Topeka the rest of the
week. She is the house guest of Mrs.
Arthur Capper, during the annual
convention of the Kansas Equal Suf-
frage association, which convenes in
Topeka Thursday. Mrs. Gait is to be
the principal speaker of the conven-
ton. She is also one of the honor
guests at a luncheon given this noon
by Washburn college and the State
Federation of Women's clubs, in the
Thomas gymnasium at Washburn. She
was gowned for the occasion in a blue
gown of silk, with a vest and trimming
of the sleeves of cream Venice lace.
Her hat was of black straw and tulle,
with narrow rim and high crown.
Friday morning Mrs. Gait will go to
the home of Mrs. w. A Johnston,
president emeritus of the Kansas
Equal Suffrage association, and will be
her guest during the remainder OF
her stay in this city. From here she
will go to Iowa to assist in the suffrage
campaign in that state.
Mrs. Gait is not New York woman
except by adoption. She belongs to
the middle west, and lived a good
many years in Iowa, where she
studied law. and was also in educa-
tional work. She was principal of q
high school in that state, and was SUI
| perintendent of the schools of Mason
/ City. Afterwards she entered actively
/ in the work of the American Equal
/ Suffrage association