The Suffrage Advocate from Lawrence, Kansas • 1

4 Hi 71, SI THE SUFFRAGE ADVOCATE. 5 NO. 1. LAWRENCE, KANSAS, JULY 5, 1894. VOL.

1. "We Hold These Trutlis to be Self Evident: That all toons are Created Free and Equal, with Kight Life, Liberty, and the rurswt of Happiness-" 4 scriber is a help to carry the amend ment. ours for success, D( you want this paper to live and the amendment to be carried? Thtn don't, wait until too late sending in subscriptions. Delays are dangerous. W.

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The California Republican State We have an excellent job and can promptly print ill orders for bills to advertise meetings, eardV and blanks for clubs, at hard pan prices. Send us your work. Convention endorsed woman suffrage. Clarence Sears and others ad Introductory. Good anil efficient work can be done only with good and efficient tools-tools adapted to the work.

We believe I he securing of a majority vote for the pending Suffrage Amendment to be a good work, not only for the women, but for all the" people, and that to accomplish this good work requires the instrument best adapted to influencing voter's through reason and judgment a weekly paper; Every Other cause but that of equal suffrage has the assistance of numerous newspapers, some of which are more or less friendly to woman's cause, but dressed a suffrage meeting at Hesper, Douglas on June 23rd The statement in the press dispatches that Mrs. Laura M. Johns donned a populist badge at the peV- Mrs. Diggs has recovered from her illness and is speaking in cen tral Kansas to large meetings. pie's party state convention, and had or would join that party, is.

we are reliably informed, a mistake. Mrs, 1 Mrs. Carrie Ciiapman-Catt has Johns is still a republican, but w(i81 Y' gone to New York, but will return continue her non-partisan suffrage work. in August and take part in the suf- irage campaign in Kansas. treat of it only as an immaterial side Miss Mary Gleason, the well Rev.

Iariiam, of Eudora. is doing known elocutionist, will give a recitation before the Douglas County issue, and many papers are opposing it vigorously. It is a truism that no cause can sue good work for suffrage. He spoke buttrage Club on next Monday af "3 at the meeting of the Suffrage Club in this city on Monday, June 25th. ternoon, ad there will be speaking ceed to-day without the aid of printer's ink, it being impossible to otherwise The utter silliness of most of the ob on the suffrage question.

AH are invited. Mrs. II. D. McCrory is president, and Miss Mary Robinson obtain tile necessary publicity and co- jections to suffrage is the best possible evidence of the lack of real objections.

secretary of the club. operation. Especially do the wcrkers and speak If sound objections existed they would be used instead of silly ones. The Democratic Club of Lawrence ers scattered throughout the state re. quire a common medium of communi held a largely attended special meeting on the evening of June 29th, to hear the ladies on the suffrage question.

cation, one that will carry to every Every person receiviug a sample copy of this paper is requested to act as its agent and to send in as many subscribers as possible. In no other way can you so effectually aid the cause of suffrage. county and neighborhood reliable news of what others are doing, tell them of Able addresses were made by Mrs. McCrory, Mrs. Sparr and Mrs.

Thompson, and they were followed by an interesting general discussion. A vote of thanks was given the ladies, with an the progress of the work as a whole, and be an aid to speakers and organiz A prominent German American who has been opposed to suffrage has qorae invitation to speak again during the ers, and an encouragement to friends campaign. i1 out as its adyocate, and says the change of the cause. is the result of a careful comparison of For these reasons we have estab the intelligence and characters of his lished the Suffrage Advocate, and grown sons and daughters. expect to continue its publication until victory has crowned its labors, and "who took care of your house and children while you delivered this lec ture said a lady to Mrs.

Stanton at It is said that men represeut women in the government They do it as the southern planters once represented their slaves, the latter figuring in the apportionment for members of Congress, though they had no vote, just as women now figure in the apportionment for members of Congress, but have nb voice in their selection. Did Breckenridge represent the women, or the member who forgot "where he was at?" this we hope will be next November. Realizing that such a campaign pa per must be widely read to be of great the close of one of her addresses. Who took care of your house and children while you listened to it replied Mrs Stanton. est value to the cause, hence must be furnished at a low price, we start out om a modest dimension, but as almost Why should a republican or demo A crat tail to vote for the amendment because his party did not endorse it, the entire space will be original or fresh reading matter each we we will really any more than they should fail to keep give more editorial matter than some any of the Ten Commandments be much larger papers.

cause Ihey were not endorsed? Can the value of the paper to the cause you tell? depends upon its large circulation, and this circulation can be obtained only Judge Nathan Cbee, of Kansas City, one of the ablest lawyers in the west, and a democrat, has in press a work on suffrage, iu which be takes strong ground for woman's complete enfranchisementand gives unanswerable reasons for its justico and expediency. Judge Crc is a ripe scholar and a careful student of all social questiops. He changed his'yi'wson suffrage as a result of careful study of social questions and in writing his able book on the Initiative and Referendum; hie ropesa capital giyes a very through the active assistance of al friends of the cause. Send in your queer reason for the ignoring of the amendment by the Republican State Convention, It says it would have been unconstitutional to have done so, and that Mrs. Ellen Foster, as a lawyer, so advised the Committee on Reso" lutions.

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