The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-18
Is "MOst Wonderful Political
Achievement by Women"
Isn't "VOtes for Women" Cam
paign; It's for Hughes.
SUFF FACTIONS COOPERATE
Headed by Most influential
Women in the Country.
Leaves New York Oct. 21; Big
Meeting in Topeka.

New York. Sept. 1S.-The woman's
Hughes campaign train, which will
leave New York October 21, touring
twenty eight states and returning No
vember 4, is the most wonderful poll
teal achievement ever carried thru
by women in this country.
Never before have they been Off
cially authorized to take such part
in a presidential campaign.
1t is not a suffrage train. 1t is a
union of anti-suffragists and suffrag-
lists. progressives-in fact, women of
every belief, under the banner of Re-
publicanism with the object of elect
ing Hughes.
Sent out under the auspices of the
Republican women'S campaign COM
mittee and the womens committee of
the Hughes alliance, it has the cordial
endorsement of Chairman Wilcox of
the Republican national committee.
who says:
women thruout the country are
interested in showing that women'S
political activity is by no means wholly
expressed in the cause of suffrage.
This train is not suffrage train II
is a practical expression of women's
political cooperation with men for
the election of Mr.. Hughes in a ma
tional crisis
Financed BY Women.
The train will be entirely financed
and mana ged by women. 1t will carry
as speechmakers the foremost women
writer's, speakers and workers who are
recognized as leaders in their fields of
work of Amcricanization immigration.
education. protection of women. pro-
baton. etc.-among the names are
Miss Maude Miner. Mrs. Raymond
nj Mary Tlraiar Miss Helen
Todd. Miss Francis Kellar.
The train committee is a list of the
most influential Republican women ill.,
the country. Among them are Mrs.
Arthur Capper. Topeka, Kan; Mrs.
George Sutherland. Salt Lake City.
Reno. New: Mrs. Thurston Ballard.
Louisville. Ky: Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth, Cincinnati. o.; Mrs. Harry
Payne Whitney. New Y ork:- Miss Maud
Welmera. Newport, r. l.; Mrs. Phoebe
Hearst. California; Mrs. Daniel Gug-
genheim New York; Mrs. George Fl.
Partridge, Minneapolis, Mimi; Mrs.
Walter Damrosch, New York; Mrs.
Winslow Williams, Baltimore; Mrs.
Spencer Penrose. Colorado Springs,
Colo; Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, and
Mrs. Clifford Pinchot.
The invitations We're issued by Mrs.
Mary Hartman Rumsey, Mrs. Harry
PAYNE Whitney and Mrs. Alice Roose-
Welt LOnSWOrth.
Will Visit % States.
The train will visit twenty-eight
states. as follows: Connecticut, Massa-
chusetts, New York. Ohio, Michigan
Illinois. Wisconsin, Minnesota, North
Dakota. Montana, Washington, Ore
gon, California. Nevada, Arizona, Utah,
Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado. Kansas
Missouri, Indiana, Kentucky, West Vir-
glnia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Della
1t will be met in each state by state
reception committees which will trav-
ell thru the state. The meetings will
be for both men and women. The
local speakers will be men. The meet
ings will be presided over by men and
the issues presented will be national.
The train was announced only last
week Already west and east women
are showing practical knowledge of
politics and are joining with great en-
thusiasm in preparing tor the women's
Hughes campaign train. 1t will GER
tainly get a rousing reception.
For instance. on the boundary line
of Minnesota the train will be boarded
by a state committee of ten women.
There will be a big demonstration as
the train pulls into st. Paul station.
This will be followed by a luncheon
rendered by the local Hughes alliance.
Then there is to be a meeting at
q cIOCh III the pain TOOI1 VI the
st. Paul hotel and at $50 an automo-
bile parade from st. Paul to Minnea-
polls. At $40 the biggest meeting in
the state occurs, with Governor Burn
quist as chairman and the state chair
man, Mr.. Thornton as speaker
All to Help in Kansas.
In Kansas, heads of organizations.
club presidents and associations of
every sort are working together to
make the biggest demonstration ever
held in Topeka under direction of Mrs.
Arthur Capper. wife of the governor.
Colorado women announce a big wo
mans political club to greet the wo-
mems Hughes campaign train. The
success of the train reception in Ne
vada is made certain by Mrs. Herbert
Humphreys, wife of the Republican
national committeeman. Mrs. George
Sutherland and other prominent Utah
women are planning to hold meetings
in a number of towns.
The Republican party has begun the
drive for America efficient" among
the women of America 1t has made
it possible for all women to work to-
gether in political service in America,
regardless of the question of suffrage
or anti-suffrage which in some states
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