The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-02
men JUST WON'T
LAY Their CARDS
/. DOWN ON TABLE!
Get Fused When They Talk
Politics With the Women.
Don't Know How To Play
Game, Says Mrs. Morgan.
WOMEN COP. LEADERS HERE
In Conference Today Men Did
Most of the Talking.
Senator Capper Points Out
Policies in Washington.
WOMEN COP. LEADERS HERE
In Conference Today Men Did
Most of the Talking.
Senator Capper Points Out
Policies in Washington.

Trouble with politics these days is
that the men don't know how to work
with the women. The men get fused
and are too reticent and formal They
don't sit down and lay the cards on
the table and talk in the same carefree
manner when they meet Ann Spivens
as when they go into a conference
with Bill Snort
That is the prime trouble in organ
izing men and women voters as out
lined at the conference today of wo-
men Republican leaders in a speech
by Mrs. W. Y. Morgan of Hutchinson,
wife of the Republican gubernatorial
nominee. More than fifty women ac-
tive in Republican affairs in the state
attended the conference. 1t was per-
haps the best Republican women's
meeting since the women won the
state ballot in 1912.
Several men attended the meeting
and were permitted to talk. But if a
bit of voting is necessary during the
day the women will attend to that
themselves.
Many of the most widely known
club women and welfare workers in
the state are attending the conference
at state headquarters in the National
hotel. The fact that the men con-
|sumed more time making speeches dur
ing the morning session than did the
women didn't tend in any manner to
disturb identity of the session nor
control of the meeting. Mrs. A. C.
Mitchell of Lawrence, chairman of the
women's state organization, presided.
= Men Won't Stand Hitched.
Mrs. Morgan pointed out what she
declared was the big trouble in pres
ent day politics when the men and
women voters had not learned to work
together. =.
1--WE are just as smart as the men" ;"
she said, ''but we don't know how to
organize quite so we'll.
1.-THE trouble is that the men don't
know how to work with us. If they
would just take US in and talk things
over like they do among themselves,
we would understand and get better
results We know better how to work
with the men than the men know now
to work with u.s."
Mrs Morgan said the women should
stay right in the political game and
shouldn't be discouraged when they
fail to win.
IF I happen to be the wife of the
next governor I am going to keep up
my political activity" she vowed.
THE governors home is going to be
your house and we are going to hold
some political pink teas out there,
too.''
"A little later IN the MI ..
Morgans husband sought to explain
the embarrassment which exists in de-
veloping a close organization between
the men and women.
you are so new in politics" he ex-
planned, that some of the men
haven't learned how to help organize
with you. They feel that all the So
cial formalities are necessary and the
man politician is sometimes reluctant
and tfmid where he feels perfectly
free to sit down with half dozen
fellows and bring out a new candidate
for governor or the senate. The thing
for the women to do Is to bring out
a few candidates of your own. Then
lot of the present trouble will be
overcome"
Appreciates Responsibility.
Mrs. Lila Day Monroe and Mrs.
]. H. Beggs, of Topeka, told the wo-
men to organize They impressed on
the women vice chairmen the import
ance of party loyalty and party en-
deavor.
1--WE are paying the price of some
of the propaganda put out when we
were seeking the ballot said Mrs.
Monroe Then we Were appealing
to the men to vote for the man. We
have come, tho to appreciate party
responsibility. Personal antagonisms
should not be permitted to interfere
with party loyalty and we owe our
support to the nominees on our ticket.
The; fallacy of picking candidates ir-