The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12
Women viii Move Here to Or
ganize New Party.
Mrs. Harriott Blatch Starts
Movement in Topeka Today.
TO GO AFTER TOM TAGGART
"Suff'' Leaders May "Plant"
Colony in His District.
Many Hope to Vote in State in
November Elections.

IF I am not good enough to vote
in Massa chusetts, 1 am not good
enough to live there. l am coming to
Kansas to establish a residence and /
think 1 want to get over in Congress
man Taggart's district to let him know
what women voters think of him. -
Mrs. Gertrude Newell, Boston.
Three women with the invading con-
gressional union party are coming to
Kansas to esta blish residences that
they may win the ballot. That was
the announcement made by the wom-
en- this afternoon when leaders in the
party outlined their plan to establish
women's party in this state and in
all suffrage states of the nation.
Mrs Harriott Stanton Blatch, of
New York, will head the delegation
that will take up official residence i'll
Kansas. Other women who will join
her are Miss Katherine Morey and
Mrs. Gertrude Newell, both of Bos-
ton. In Kansas they plan to take an
active hand in the affairs of the state
and nation.
To Get at Taggart.
One of the things that caused the
women to want a residence in Kansas
was an opportunity to express appre-
citation of Congressman Joseph Tag
CART of The Second district. Taggart
is a member of the congressional
committee which failed to report the
Susan B. Anthony suffrage resolution
for passage.
II expect to come to Kansas to es-
tablish a residence" said Mrs. Newell
today. IF ] am not good enough to
vote in Massachusetts, l am not good
enough to live there. We will join the
4,000,0 900 women who have the ballot
and will fight for those who do not
enjoy the privilege
Political conditions in the east
make it almost impossible to win suf-
fraGe,' declared Miss Katherine Nor
ey of Boston, who also declared she
would come to Kansas to vote. I'm
less conditions are changed, relief can
be had only through a constitutional
amendment for nationwide suffrage
In many towns where he had a clear
majority, we lost through corrupt po-
htical methods"
Mrs. Blatch, one of the most prom
inent women in the Congressional
Union party, will establish a residence
in Kansas that she may vote in the
November election. Size is a strong
advocate of a wcman's psrty-an or
ganization of new voters who will use
their ballots anad influence to extend
the rights OF the ballots to other states.
Plan to Force Issue.
Suffrage states control nearly one
fifth of the electoral vote and more
than one-third of the votes necessary
to elect a president" said Mrs. Batch.
BY putting suffrage first and party
affiliation second. women can demand
and secure the passage of the suffrage
amendment through congress at this
session."
Miss Helen Todd, a member of the
party, is a voter in California al
though she spends her time in New
York
It's a long, long way from New
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to California to vote this fall said
Miss Todd. My residence is in San
Francisco, although 1 spend nearly
my entire time in New York Other
women are adopting the policy and
many would be voters in the east
Will become residents of suffrage
states. Isn't that sufficient reason
for a WOmen'S marty 2'