The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-14
KEEPS POT BIL|N'
Woman of Kansas Fight Fame
Is on the Job.
Miss Vernon, Suffrage Leader,
at st. Louis Meet.
NOW ENTREATS DEMOCRATS
Had Padded Club for Them
Five Months Ago.
Only Two of SunflOwer Delega-
ton at ID. C. Present.
NOW ENTREATS DEMOCRATS
(BY A. T.. SHULTZ.)

by adoption, is today helping to keep
the state in the spotlight before Demo-
Gratis who came to st. Louis for the
national convention. Miss Vernon, who
holds the record for Grating the big
! gest women's row Kansas ever saw, to-
day was active in the big suffrage
parade, carried a banner, labored with
the national platform committee and
exhorted with the voters-all in the in
terest of votes for women.
| There are several score women in
| st. Louis who are active in the ma
tional suffrage fight before the Dem
| ocratic national committee. But Miss
| Vernon is on the inside of every
move and in the inner councils of the
women who are hoping almost against
hope for a favorable plank in the
| Bourbon platform. In the Hotel JEFF
| ferson Miss Vernon directed the plac-
/ ing of a big banner. Then she donned
the colorS of the Congressional union,
| stood on a large motor car and for
| thirty minutes exhorted with the dele
gates and voters for equal suffrage.
| ~ In Kansas Five Months Ago.
Five months ago when Miss Vernon
| first went to Kansas, she carried a
padded club for every Democrat on
the Kansas delegation in Washington.
Today, though, she told the Demo-
Gratis she thought they were excellent
citizens. But one thing could raise
| them in her esteem, she said. That
was the national suffrage plank and
an act by the Sixty-fourth congress
which would carry the passage OF the
| natiural suffrage amendment Miss
| Vernon was disappointed with the re-
| cert ton which the Republican plat
form committee accorded her. She
J admits it.
| II don't understand such action, Go
you g and Miss Vernon looked at a
reporter in a manner that demanded
an answer. So the reporter admitted
he didn't understand, either. why,
| it was such a weak, wabbly stand. In
fact the committee didn't stand for
anything. The smartest thing, polit-
| ically that this convention could do
would be to adopt the resolution. 1t
would mean thousands of votes in
suffrage states"
| But Miss Vernon admitted she fear
| ed the worst and went her way 70
| join in the big suffrage parade which
was staged to show the delegates the
will of the unterrified.
| Just two members OF the Kansas
delegation in Washington came to St
Louis for the Democratic convention.
| The members attending the convention
are William H. Thompson, United
States senator and Jouett Shouse of
Kinsley, congressman from the Seventh
| district Other members sent regrets
to their constituents who were on the
| delegation or came to St. Louis to look
at the show.
| The election of Senator Thompson
as the Kansas member of the commit
tee on resolution was in opposition to the
| advance dope of the convention lead
ers. Friends of Colonel w. F. (BilI
Sapp of Galena, national committee
man from Kansas, had planned TO
place Judge A. NJ. Jackson on the COM
nittee. But Senator Thompson came
to st. Louis with exalted ambitions
and a high resolve So there was
nothing for Kansas Democracy to do
| but to give him the place and talk
it was an upsetting of the original
plans of number of the party leaders
| in the home state.
| Patronage holders in Kansas are
here in full strength. In fact it looks
much like the glorious day of victory
for Senator Thompson in the state
convention at Hutchinson in April.
| Fred Robertson, district attorney;
Ohio Woods, United States marshal;
collector; and a number of their
worthy, ardent, enthusiastic and pa
| triotic assistants, are attending the con-
vention and whooping it up for the
| Wilson administration. There is also
! a large delegation of Kansas postmaS-
tiers and the list which applied to the
state convention might safely be re-
printed with slight amendment.
One of the really noisy delegations
| was one from Pennsylvania. 1t came
with cheer leaders and vocalists. The
| delegation carried repertoire of
songs that fitted every state and every
one in the convention. Shortly after
the Pennsylvania delegates arrived at
the jefferson hotel and had tried heir
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newspaper men sitting in a corner ard
looking for local color for convention
stories. In the party of correspondents
was Mayor House of Topeka. Some
one told the Pennsylvania delegates
the identity of the Topeka newspaper
man and for ten minutes he was ser
enaded to his personal embarrassment
and the enjoyment of Kansas dele
gates and news writers.
| Members of the st. Louis Press club
have provided royal entertainment for
the visiting correspondents. Nearly
100 news writers went to the famous
| Busch home one night this week ex-
pecting a beer party, only to be greet
ed to ice tea and occasional mint ju1ep
for those who desired refreshment.
| Tuesday evening a cabaret show was
staged by the press club for the cor
respondents and tonight the big fes-
| tivities of the st. Louis newspaper men
Will De PROVIDED LOT the oeIeliI u Inc
| visitors. The big treat tonight in
cludes the annual press club frolic-
an all night party at a well known ST.
Louis park. All visiting newspaper
men-and there are several hundred
of them-have been invited
Kansas was one of the few states
which sent women to the convention.
A Kansas woman-Mrs. A. w. Harris
of Kansas City and widow of the late
Colonel Harris-is a member of the
big four from the Sunflower state.
Mrs. Harris will sit with the Kansas
delegation during the convention and