The Topeka state journal., 1916-04-15

and this being a year when officers
are not chosen, the delegates had op-
portunity and leisure to discuss pos
sible candidates for the coming year
Club women throughout the state
were very well represented at the
convention, and name that was most
frequently suggested was that of Mrs.
H. o. Garvey, who consented on We'd
nesday to become a candidate. The
official announcement of her candi-
dacy was brought out at the close of
the convention in explanation of her
inability to consider the suggestion OF
some of her friends that she accept a
nomination to become the chief eXecu
tive of the Kansas Equal Suffrage as
sociation which held it's convention the
day following the state federation con-
vention.
Topeka has had but one state
president, Mrs. ]. C. McClintock. Mrs.
w. A. Johnston, president fourteen
years ago, was nominated from the
Fifth district, which was her official
home at that time, and is so still.
number of the districts agree that it
is Topeka's turn next year.
Mrs. Garvey's work as a club wom-
an is known throughout the state. She
has been an untiring worker in places
of prominence, and whatever the ma
ture of the duties assigned her, she
has handled them successfully. She
has never been a candidate for a state
federation office. For two years she
served as corresponding secretary,
which is an appOintive, and not an
elective office. She has been president
of all the local clubs of which she is
a member. She has served as presi-
dent of the Vignette club, a literary
organization of high standing, and of
the Western SOrOSiS, a large and in
fluential club which includes some of
the most intellectual women of Topeka
on its roll; and she has been president
OF the Topeka Federation of Women's
Clubs. She has also served as presi-
dent of the First district of the State
Federation.
For fifteen years she has been active
in city, district and state federation
work, and at previous times she has
fused the support of her friends for
the office
She has been active not only in local
and state club affairs. but she has alsn
beer on important committees in the
General Federation. She served as
chairman of the credentials commit
tee of the General Federation, when it
met in Boston, and the committee on
credentials has one of the most re
sponsible parts of the business of the
working committees. She was also on
the civic program of the General red
Grafton when it met in ST Louis, she
being one of the two women from
Kansas represented on that program.
9Aie was CHAIRMAN OF the press COM
m1ttee of the State Federation of
Clubs, and chairman of the press
committee for the Kansas Equal Suf-
frage association. And incidentally
she stood for equal suffrage when
equal suffrage was far from being as
popular as it is now. She is CORE
spending secretary of the Kansas
State Peace society, and vice chairman
of the State Federation peace COM
mittee.
Mrs Garvey is known as a woman
of intellect and culture. She has sold
articles to eastern magazines, includ-
ing Current Literature, The Chautau-
guam, and the Western Publisher of
Chicago, and she has had published in
the daily press many of her poems and
addresses. And while she is intellec-
tual, she is not pedantic, but is alive to
the problems of the day and interested
in industrial civic. welfare and other
public questions She is one of the
good looking women of the federation
convention, and she makes a good
public address. She appears to have
taken all the steps that lead to the
presidents chair, from the small and
unattractiVe duties of club work up
to the bigger and more noticeable la
bOrS Her attendance at conventions.
and her committee and official work
have brought her in touch with women
throughout the state. who feel very
friendly toward her; while she un-
doubtedly will have tremendous
following in Topeka and all the First
district. Her friends know that she
never works in the dark and that her
opinions and principles are exactly the
same in declaration as in practice.
While she makes people feel her sin
cerity. she has the gracious manner
and social polish that fit her to grace