The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-15

Women are Warned Against Candidates
For Congress Whose Declaration
for Equal Suffrage Dates Only to
Their AnnOuncement-LOOk into
Their Former Attitude.
Topeka, Kans., April 15.-''Kansas,
of all states, should make no mistake
in the election of its eight congressman
Only those who have stood fmly for
the right of women to vote, and who
have been leaders and advocates for
their enfranchisement should be sent to
/ Washington. In our fight for national
woman's suffrage we have a right to
/ expect Kansas to send only men whose
/ life has been devoted to the long battle
/ in this state, and whose consistent sup
port and help gave to the women of
this progressive commonwealth the vic
tory of the ballot"
This was the urgent appeal made by
the two score women representing the
National Congressional Union who came
from more than dozen states to Topeka
this week to urge Kansas women to
/ place none but tried aud true friends on
guard in the nomination and election of
congressman in this state. In Repre-
sentative hall, in Memorial hall, at the
Governors mansion, and to audiences
on Kansas avenue, the women leaders
in the suffrage cause pleaded with their
Kansas sisters to vote only for candi-
dates for congress whose life and re-
cord are known of all men and women
= in this cause.
The women of Kansas, they said,
should not be deceived by candidates.
The gentlemen running for congress
whose espousal for equal suffrage dates
back only to the day he announced him
self as a candidate, is not a safe man
to send to Washington to help secure
national suffrage for women. A man S
lifetime convictions-his sneering and
ridicule of women's suffrage-are not
changed in night, except when that
course is necessary to get women's
votes.
This application to the Sixth district
| Republican situation was striking, fer
it pointed pnerringly to the candidacy
of Mr.. Otis L. Benton, of Oberiin, as
the one running for congress who has
for twenty-five years stood out as a
leader in Kansas for the right of wom-
en- to vote in state and nation.
Chapter 323.
Concerning the Relief of Certain Pur-
chasers of School Lands. House BiIi
No. SO. An Act for the Relief of
Certain Purchasers Of School Lands.
\ Be it enacted by the legislature of the
state of Kansas:
Section l. That in all cases Of sales
: of school lands heretofore made, where
hthe purchasers thereof have made par
tial payment or payments whereon and
have by law forfeited their rights to
such lands and the money already paid
thereon; and where the said purchasers
have not been elected, and are and
have been in continuous possession
thereof, and when affidavit of settle
ment has been made and no settlement
has been made upon and no subsequent
purchase has been made of such lands
by any person subsequent to the date
when the forfeiture of such lands be
COulO SASCIlFS5 Iue&I SatO pSLSOIlSJ A4e7N -
, ing made such partial payment or pay
! ments, their heirs and assigns may with
2 in one year from the date passage OF
this act, renew their right to retain the
land so forfeited, by paying the amount
! due on said lands in the matter provided
by existing law.
) Section 2 This act shall not apply
; to any certificate of purchase that has
been forfeited by any proceeding other
, than the forfeiture by operation of law
for non-payment as provided by section
1857 of the General Statutes of 1909.
! Section 8. This act shall take effect
and be IN force from and after its pub
LEGATION in the official state paper.
Approved March q, 1915.
Published in the official state paper
April 9, 1915.
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