The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-21
KEEP OFF GRASS"
Mrs. Xina COwIes Wright Issues
an UItimatum.
topeka Woman Tells Private
Clubs To Be Careful.
NOT A REAL REPRESENTATION
Declaration and Slap Against
"GoOd Governments"
Another Chapter in TOpeka's
Wild Women War.

Private clubs should keep out of
public affairs"
That was the ultimatum which Mrs.
Xina Cowles Wright, Topeka club
woman, today sent to the exclusive
Good Government club when she de-
clared that the organization joined
in an effort to humiliate President
Wilson during his recent visit TO To-
peka Then Mrs. Wright ventured the
quite emphatic statement that the
Good Government club didn't repre-
sent the women of Kansas
Mrs Wright is not enthusiastic con-
corning the high purposes and policies
of the Good Government club In fact
she admits that she does not regard
the motives of the club as being of
elevated purposes. Yet in the two
weeks that the row among club women
and suffrage workers has been at it's
height, Mrs. Wright has been an on
locker and bystander. Now Mrs
Vernon crowd. She declares that the
Good Government club aided and
abetted Miss Mabel Vernon in her eff
fort to humiliate President Wilson.
This action, she charges, was under the
direction of a few leaders and without
the APPROVAL or consent of the mem
bership.
There is but little praise for the mo-
tives of the congressional union in the
fiery statement which Mrs. Wright
made today in discussing the issues in
the lively wOmens war.
methods Are Militant
Its methods are militant" emphat-
ically declared Mrs. Wright in speak
ing of the organization headed by Miss
Vernon and supported by many Kan
sas women. 1T works against the
party in power if the party will not
grant the request of the union. Their
methods are just plain English mill
tant tactics
Two years ago the union sent Miss
Vernon and others to Kansas to op-
pose the reelection of those who were
affiliated with the dominant party in
the state. They propose this year to
confine their activities to national of
ficers. If they so choose, the women
of Kansas can form a women's party
They can oppose the dominant party
BY so doing they can assist the oppo-
sition."
Then Mrs. Wright told the women
of Kansas to be on their guard. Some
one, she said, might try to put one
over"
BE on Your Guard"
IT charge no one with political trick
cry" said Mrs. Wright, but any organ
ization that could so easily put one over
the opposition should be carefully
considered by the women of Kansas
1t is the manner in which the women
of the suffrage states meet their new
obligations that Injuries or assists the
suffrage cause. The women of Kan
sas gained the ballot by non-mili-
tant methods. There seems to be no
demand by public orge nization5 to re-
verse these methods. There has been
no clamor by the women voters for
militancy in Kansas"
Disposing of the militant methods
of the congressional union, Mrs.
Wright threw a few rocks at the
Good Government club. Mrs.
Wright is not member Of the Good
Government club. In fact she is a
member Of the Political Science club
and the two organizations are not
exactly on intimate social terms, it is
rumored.
1.-The Good Government club of To-
peka is not a public club said Mrs.
Wright. ITS membership is CEN
sored by two or three women and
these two or three women--assisted
by a few others-decide and execute
the policies of the club through a
board or committee which is self
perpetuating. No committee or board
/ of management which was habitually