The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-12
War OF WOMEN
: GOES MERRILY ON
Mrs. Lucia o. Case Fires a
BrOadside at the Enemy.
Wants to Know Who Sent for
Miss Vernon.
She HAS NO BUSINESS HERE
The National Suffrage AssOcia-
ton Has No Sympathy
With the Methods Employed by
4 Congressional Union.

Feeling in the row among Topeka
club women and suffrage workers has
reached the interesting stage where the
women are Saying things" about one
another. Just that there would be no
undue neglect Of the controversy, Mrs.
lucia O. Case today demanded to
know who invited Miss Mabel Vernon
to Kansas. Incidentally, Mrs. Case
incurred. would Mrs. Lila Day Mon
roe state the authority for that tele-
gram announcing that President Will
son had insulted and Inundated Kan
sas women.
There isn't the slightest indication
chat the fight among club women and
Suffrage workers will stop rs long as
Miss Vernon, representative of the
congressional union, stays in Kansas
Ii is around Miss Vernon and her
pilgrimage TO Kansas that all the russ
Is staged Yet Miss Vernon is SEEM
fngly as happy and contented ana
serene as a holiday bride in a beauty
shcp. she merely smiles and wouldn't
admit for all the world that she is
Concerned or so much as knows that
Topeka clubdOm is a bomb center IN
smile of Miss Nernon's smiles, the sit
uation is quite unchanged. The Hard
fng-Case-J ohnston faction and repre-
eentatiVes of the national suffrage as
sociatfon demand that Miss Vernon
90 back to her old home town. And
Miss Vernon? on. she is quite we'll
pleased with Kansas. Really. Thank
you.
z who invited this woman to Kan
sas that's what 1 would like TO
know" Mrs Case asked tocay
No ona was available who seci2ed
able to answer So Mrs. Case IN! I'm
Journey back to Delaware and forget
70 return, as far as Kansas women
are concerned-or at lea st that rae
ton in the national suffrage assocla-
Il want the men in Kansas TO know
that we don't approve of the methods
Of this woman or of the CONGRESSIONAL
onion" said Mrs. Case. Why the
men gave us the vote here. we doh I
need Miss Vernon in Kansas. we
don't need her services at all: l can
understand why she Will insist on
making rs ridiculous.
Then Mrs Case told of an inter
dew which she had with Miss YER
non when the Kansas Day CLUB Ine-
III Topeka. -
I'VE want power" Miss Vernon was
quoted by Mrs. Case as saving "hen
asked her mission in Kansas.
Think of it," ridiculed Mrs. case
today. why such a statement? Pos
lively it is an insult to Kansas wo-
manhood. We are not militant mere;
want power Huh. Well, we would
not get it that way if we wanted II
ever and ever so badly. Western wo-
men don't do things that way. rms
Miss Vernon simply doesn't under
stand or doesn't know"
Again Mrs. Case asserted that she
would be pleased to know who invited
Miss Vernon or the Congressional
union to come to Kansas.
Calls 1t Il Failure.
surely no one sent for her" said
Mrs. Case. .swhy. if any one is to
I,aIr. of
come who has succeeded better than
we 1 don't know a place where Miss
Vernon and her organization have
worked where they have succeeded.
Then Mrs. Case told of the real ba-
Sis of the row among the Kansas wo-
men. She asserted that the Congress
sionaI union was in no manner affil-
fated with the National Suffrage asso-
ciation and that the visit of Miss Yer
non to Topeka was not encouraged.
This stand. Mrs. Case said, was based
On a resolution passed in June, 1915.
In Chicago, which read in part;
) THE national executive council
Considers that it is inconsistent and
unsuitable for members of the Off
Gal boards of the affiliated associa-
ions to be members of the Congress
sfunal union or any ether suffrage or
-enization whose policies have been
found to be in opposition to the poll
cies Of the National American Suf-
frage association. and recommend TO
the affiliated associations that they
shall not permit their association ma
ehinery to be used in cooperation
with the activities of such opposing
Suffrage organizations"
No Business Here.
That tells the whole story" said
Mrs. Case. pointing to the resolutions.
rThe Congressional union simply has
no business here
= Mrs. Lila Day Monroe-not on Mrs.
Gases visiting list during the last sew
eral years, thank you-was also called
upon to explain a few things. Maybe
Mrs. Case thought. Mrs. Monroe would
be kind enough to explain her author
ny for the kilograms which Miss Yer
non sent to Washington relative to
tho presidents reception of Kansas
women.
There have been lot of stories
as to what President Wilson and Sec
rotary Tumulty said and possibly it
would be good plan for Mrs. Mon
roe to give her authority. Certain
~" Mrs. Case urged. cit would clear
conditions and relieve the suspicion
Which has attached to the reliability
u the reports"
Z When Miss Vernon sent her tele-
grams which caused a sensation in
Washington, she stated that her action
was based on statements conveyed tC
her through Mrs. Monroe. Later Mrs
Monroe declined to make public the
names of her advisers.
Found ''Uprising'' Tame.
: Washington, Feb. 12.-Indian Su.
perintendent Runke at Tuba, Ariz., to-