The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-29
Veteran Anti-Suffragists Have
Surprise Coming to Them.
OUT FOR HOOVER STRONG
VOiceless Speeches New Feature
Sprung by Women Workers.
Every G. o. P. Candidate Has
Feminine Organization Going.
BY HAROLD D. JACOBS.

- AL<A1NOl@AC L. y <ANOASN'
Chicago, May 2s.-Women political
workers are introducing a new tech
nique in national campaign affairs by
canvassing the delegates TO the Repub-
lican convention thru their wives.
BY revamping the old adage-the
way to a mans heart is thru his stom-
aeh-they have made it read that the
way to : mans brain is thru his
heart" and are acting accordingly.
The work of canvassing the women
delegates has been practically turned
over to the women's organizations by
the national managers of candidates.
Old Vets Arc Surprised.
Veteran politicians who fought
woman suffrage to the last gasp ana
who came to Chicago prepared 10 nave
a big laugh about the pink tea poll
tics'' they expected to discover. are
being forced into reluctant admiration.
You've got to hand it to EN-" one
of these old timers said today.
They've learned in few months
what it takes the average man years
to learn. If the work they re doing
now Is any indication of future devel-
opment along the same lines, the next
generation may see woman in the
White House-and ! amt SO darned
sure it wouldn't be a good thing"
Probably the first woman's organi-
cations to take up seriously plans Tor
implanting their candidates propa-
ganda thru the wives of the delegates
were the Women's Lowden League of
Illinois, headed by Mrs. Frederick A.
Lorenz. and the wOmen's division OF
the Lowden campaign committee, OF
which Mrs. Fletcher Dobyns is chair
man.
The latter body, which claims a
A.. Of 0nO alTpl0V
completed plans for volunteer workers
TO become personally acquainted with
every woman delegate and with the
wife of every man delegate.
out for Hoover Strong.
The Hoover womens campaign
committee. under the leadership OF
Mrs Benjamin S. Langworthy, has
taken over a building near the coli
scum which will be known as the
Hoover house." where women dele
gates and delegates wives will be en-
: ertained Volunteer workers for this
campaign are featuring volceless
speeches. Young women take up a
vantage point in an automoblle at a
busy corner and display to the crowds
a series of posters containing snort
sentences laudatory to Hoover
Mrs. II. o. Pavey of Columbus. o..
is head of the Harding -for- president
womnn's club This organization will
have headquarters IN the congress NJ
tel. Mrs. Pavey and her co-workers
have found the telephone superior TO
ALI other methods in getting in touch
with women whom they seek to inter-
est in their candidate.
The johnson women's organization
was expected to be organized late to-
day. Mrs. Raymond Robins mas oeen
The head of the informal body which
has been carrying on the work in the
middle west.
one of the oldest and strongest of
the womens organizations is the
Leonard Wood national woman's cam
paign committee. of which Miss Har-
I1iet Vitturn is chairman This COM
rnittee has branches in all the prln-
cipal cities. It's Chicago headquarters
adjoins the mems organization in the
Congress hotel.