The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-15
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row might be lost, DR.. Harding today
contributed a few brief, but emphatic
expressions of opinion. Right off the
bat, she declared that some one had
lied Lie" was the word she used.
She didn't apply it in just the most
direct manner but she made it clear
that in her opinion some one had
slipped on the plain, simple, unvar-
nished truth.
I'VE are getting so far away from
the real issue in this row that we are
losing sight of it," declared DR.. Hard
ing today. I'VE have been quarrel
ing and backbiting and injecting so
many side issues into the thing that
no one knows what it is all about"
Then she hurled a challenge and
walked away.
IF Miss Vernon wants to know how
charitable Kansas women can be, let
Miss Vernon confess her sins and ad-
nit that some one told a lie. Let her
clear the skirts of Mrs. Monroe and
let's get back to first principles in our
dispute"
In the face of the crusade of the
National Suffrage association. leaders
in the organization of the Congress
sional union today went ahead with
their plans for a big meeting in To-
peka February %. when Miss Doris
Stevens of New York comes to To-
peka. Invitations to attend the meet
ing We're today mailed to scores of
prominent club women and suffrage
workers.
Signers of the Call.
The call for the Stevens meeting
was signed by Alice Paul. in charge of
the national organization of the Con-
gressional union. Miss Mabel Vernon,
organizer for the union and in charge
of the fight in Kansas. also signed the
call, as did Mrs. Lila Day Monroe,
chairman of the Kansas branch of the
organization
Statements by several Topeka wo-
men have tended to widen the breach
among club women. The statement
of Mrs. Lucia o. Case was one of the
sources of greatest trouble. Mrs. Case
arose to inquire who invited Miss Yer
non to Kansas and added that Kansas
women did not need the assistance di-
rection or leadership of the Delaware
woman.
Out in fashionable West side society
circles, Topeka women are saying
many things about Mrs. Cases inter-
view. Some of these remarks are not
kind or charitable. Several Topeka
women were today asked for state
ments concerning Mrs. Cases remarks.
But they declined to talk for publica-
ton.
None the less Topeka society is quite
wide awake to the situation. No
longer is there an effort to deny that
a red hot battle is in progress Then,
recurring to the remarks about Miss
vernon, supporters of the congress
Sional union inquire in a yelled sort
of way for information az to the in
vitation which Mrs. Case received to
go to New York to work for suffrage.
They also want to know who invited
Mrs. Case to go to Iowa when the COM
ing campaign opens in that state.
Discuss Mrs. Case.
That isn't all. There is a rumor
among the congressional union leaders
that Mrs. Case is on the pay roll of the
national suffrage association. If not
on the pay roll. then maybe some time
in the past she was a paid worker. If
not that, then someone or some organi-
cation paid her expenses on a cam
paign trip. If not that-well, then,
who did pay her expenses. Any num-
Der of women admit they have heard
rumors. But for publication-no.
never never a word.
"It is a very foolish quarrel I have
tried to get harmony, but 1t seems 1
can't do it, said Mrs. Howard n.
Rhodes, president of the Good Govern
ment club. Mrs. Rhodes, however, de-
clared that she had suspended judg-
ment until after the Stevens meeting.
Then. possibly, she would desire to ex-
press her views.
Mrs. Lila Day Monroe has for ten
days been sick at her home, 909 Har-
Pison street. Over the telephone to-
day Mrs. Monroe said she was not in
the fight She had only kind words for
all those who had said uncharitable
things about the congressional union
and the Good Government club. She
wanted peace and harmony.
But the fight does not seem to abate
and in the end there may be a general
revision of the visiting lists in the
fashionable west end.
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