The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-02
Women Might Swing Election
if They Held Together.
However, They Are Split Three
Ways, 1t Seems. .
MRS. GARNETT IS OPPOSED
Many Republicans Not in Ac-
cord With Her Work.
Mrs. Marshall Stands Behind
the Democrats.

With the largest registration of wo-
men that has ever been recorded in
Kansas, more than offsetting the loss
of about 100000 votes of men who
have gone to the army and are work
ing in other cities in munitions plants,
the women of this state could swing
the election to suit themselves II they
could just be all of one mind. If all
the women who vote agreed with the
theories of the Womans party, the
Kansas Democrats wouldn't have a
chance in the senate. If all women
who vote in Kansas could agree TO
cast their ballots for women candi-
dates Dr. Eva Harding would prob
ably go to the senate without a strug-
gle.
In speaking of the probabilities of
. the action of the women in the cleo
ton Doctor Harding said: believing
that the women of Kansas will support
their women candidates. I expect that
I shall receive a large number of the
votes of the women citizens. My own
party. the Socialists. naturally both
men and women, will support We, and
with a large woman vote from other
parties, my candidacy should make
pretty good showing"
Mrs. Garnet in Statement.
The Woman's party. with its repre-
sentative. Mrs. Louise Garnett of Salt
Lake City, working in this state. hopes
to defeat the Democratic candidate FOR
the senate. 1t is the theory of the Wo-
mans party that, as the government is
controlled thru party action. any party
that fails a certain group of citizens
should be retired, REGARDLESS of indi-
vidual obligation. Mrs. Garnet. re-
plying TO Ex-Governor Hodgess de-
Tense that it was the Democratic party
that gave the ballot to Kansas women,
says:
Whatever the party may have done
for women in Kansas. nationally it has
defeated their efforts for the fran
chise. President Wilson asked for a
return of Democratic congressman
not because Republican representa-
tives had failed to support him. but
because his own party was responsible
for the conduct of the war, that being
the majority party"
Many of the standpat Republican
women are DESTROYS of the election of
Republican candidates. and are work
ing for them, while they utterly re-
pudiate the Woman's party idea of
making war on any one party because
it has not passed the national amend
ment for suffrage. "All parties can
be useful to u.s." they say, "in win
ming the ballot. and it is poor policy
to antagonize any of them by o fight
on their candidates
Mrs. Marshall Talks.
Nor are the Democratic women
Joining very heartily in the fight on
their party even tho they may be ar
dent suffra gistS. A representative
Democratic woman of the state. Mrs
Emma Sells Marshall, who was pa
role officer for the Girls Industrial
school during the administration of
Governor Hodges. recalls that during
y the time she and other women of
Kansas were lobbying in the state
legislature for the passage of the suf-
frage amendment, they assured all
the men who supported their measure
that their action would be gratef, lly
remembered at the polls when the
franchise was won. More women in
Kansas she said, "held good offices