s conducted
at the Winfield, Beloit and Lincoln Chautauquas. Mrs. Mary C. C.
Bradford of Colorado was the outside speaker and afterwards spoke in
four of the principal cities. Mrs. Sadie P. Grisham of Cottonwood
Falls was elected president at the convention held in Topeka Nov. 9,
10, 1904. The increase of membership of nearly a thousand was largely
accredited to the efforts of Mrs. Alice Moyer, State organizer.
Presidential suffrage was again adopted for the year's work. The
suffrage departments were maintained at the Chautauqua meetings and
literature and letters were sent to every member of the incoming
Legislature. The convention of 1905 was held in Topeka October 20-21.
Mrs. Grisham refused a second term and Mrs. Roxana E. Rice of Lawrence
was elected president. On Oct. 14, 1906, the convention met in Topeka
and Mrs. Rice was re-elected and with others of her board represented
Kansas at the national convention in Chicago the next February.

The annual meeting of 1907 was again held in Topeka on November 14 and
a report from the national convention was given by the vice-president,
Mrs. Lilla Day Monroe, but all propositions and resolutions offered by
the mother organization were either rejected or referred to a
committee and at the conclusion of Mrs. Monroe's report she moved that
"the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association withdraw from the National."
After discussion to the effect that it could do more effective work
alone the motion was carried. Mrs. Monroe was elected president, Mrs.
J. D. McFarland first and Mrs. Rice second vice-president. The
treasurer reported $260 in the treasury and was instructed to pay $25
to the Susan B. Anthony memorial fund. The board decided to publish
the _Club Member_, devoted to women's activities.

The convention of 1908 met October 30-31 in Topeka, the Good
Government Club and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of that
city uniting with the association in an evening program. Mrs. A. H.
Horton was elected president, Mrs. Monroe first and Mrs. Margaret Hill
McCarter second vice-president. The fact was evident that there had
been no organization work and little activity throughout the State for
several years, and, as there was now no connection with the National
Association, interest was awakened only at biennial periods by the
convening of the Legislature.

At the convention of 1909 in Topeka, December 10, 11, T. A. McNeal of
this city, former member of the Legislature, principal