speaker at the
evening meeting, chided the women and declared that the little advance
made along suffrage lines of recent years was not because of men's
lack of interest but on account of women's indifference. Mrs.
Catharine A. Hoffman was elected president; Mrs. R. V. Chambers first
and Mrs. McCarter second vice-president; Mrs. E. E. Raudebush,
secretary; Mrs. Emma Sells Marshall, treasurer; Mrs. McFarland and
Mrs. Rice, auditors. The president appointed an advisory board of
fifteen men and women and named Mrs. Genevieve Howland Chalkley State
organizer. The press was used to advantage and good speakers from
Kansas and neighboring States helped to make woman suffrage a more
popular subject. A number of meetings of a semi-social nature were
held in the capital city before the Legislature met. One, "a Kansas
equal suffrage banquet," followed a business meeting of the
association, Jan. 28, 1910, at Hotel Throop. About one hundred guests
were present, Governor W. R. Stubbs and wife and former Governor W. E.
Hoch and wife having seats of honor. Mrs. Hoffman was toastmistress
and about twenty men and women responded to toasts.

Mrs. Hoffman's policy was to make a strong appeal to the next
Legislature for the submission of a full suffrage amendment to the
voters. On Dec. 9, 1910, she called her officers and a number of well
known workers to a conference in Topeka and a plan of action was
outlined. A room in the State Historical Department, which through
the courtesy of Geo. W. Martin had been used as legislative
headquarters in other years, was again retained with Mrs. Monroe as
superintendent. Mrs. William A. Johnston, Mrs. Stubbs and Mrs. C. C.
Goddard were appointed a legislative committee. Governor Stubbs had
been re-elected in November, 1910, and in his message to the
Legislature in January he strongly advised the submission. Then the
battle royal for votes opened. The resolution was introduced early in
January. Every legislator was asked by each member of the committee to
vote for it; many of the members' wives were in Topeka and teas,
dinners and receptions became popular, at which the "assisting ladies"
were asked to keep the subject of woman suffrage to the front and in
this way many men and women were interested and educated.

Mrs. Hoffman was a conservative but diligent worker and among her able
assistants were a number of men and women from the colleges and
universities. Mrs. Lillian Mitchner, president of the