Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-01-13
MISS LAURA CLAY
FOR U. S. SENATOR?
Lexington Paper Says She May
Be Candidate If Women Get
Vote This Year


Lexington, may be a candidate for
the United States senate, if women
obtain the ballot in time, this year
according to story in the Lexing-
ton Leader Sunday. Miss Clay is the
pioneer .suffragist of Kentucky. She
tended the Democratic state CON
vention last September as a dele
sate from Madison county and made
. strong fight before the resolutions
committee for her suffrage plank,
Her possible candidacy would IN
doubtedly arouse great interest
everywhere and especially here in her
home county. The Leader story Sun
.';y said:
Miss Laura Clay for United States
senator, if the woman suffrage
amendment to the constitution. OF the
United States is adopted, is the unit
ed program of 10th factions in
the suffrage fight in Kentucky, judi
ging from expressions from profnin-
ent members Of both factions, who
were asked Saturday if the women
had any candidates for office in +ne
event their amendment won.
Mrs. Harrison G.. Foster, formerly
prominent in Washington State poll
tics, and herself a delegate to Demo
cratic national conventions from that
State, said that at a dinner party the
other day she had suggested COM
pletc slate of candidates, including
the Legislature and Congress- Mrs.
Foster has the distinction Of having
refused to run for Congress in Wash
ington. She refused to give the
names Of candidates other than Miss
Clay, whom she had slated for the
Senate.
Miss Clay is my choice for the Sen
ate", she said. az dent mind saying
that much. The slate as you call it,
came to me on the inspiration of the
moment, but if that slate went thru
and was elected, this city, county and
State would be as well represented at
Frankfort and Washington as they
ever have been in their history. There
is no doubt in my mind that some of
the women are preparing right now
to run for office in the event of the
Anthony amendment.
"You can say that the suffragists
OF Kentucky would be united on one
thing-the matter of making Miss
Laura Clay United States senator if
she would rum, said Mrs. E. l..
Hutchinson, for years a leader in
suffrage matters in Fayette county
and in the State. "There would be no
factions on that question, she said.
'Mrs. Frances E. Boauchamp, secre-
tary of the national committee of the
Prohibition party, and herself a suf-
frage worker as well as prohibition
advocate for years, said she was of the
opinion that the adoption of the An
thony amendment would give the
women the right only to vote in
Federal elections until Kentucky
adopted a State amendment
Mrs. Frank l.. McVey, president of
the Fayette Equal Rights Association
however, said that, in her opinion, the
adoption of the Anthony amendment
would remove all political disability
from. women. Mrs. Foster expressed
the same view, saying that the An
thony amendment was exactly that
the word "seX" is used in place of
trace, color or previous condition OF
servitude" That would make the
Anthony amendment read as, follows:
ARTICLE XIX
"1-The right of citizens of the
United States to vote shall not be
denied or abridged by the United
States or by any State on account
of sex.
"2-The Congress shall have
power. to enforce the provisions of
| this article by appropriate legisla-
ton"