th in different parts of the State. She drew large audiences
and made many converts. A suffrage society was organized at
Emporia, Miss M. J. Watson, president. The active friends availed
themselves of her assistance to call a State Suffrage Convention,
which met in the Senate chamber in Topeka, June 25, 26, and
organized a State Association.[478] Mrs. Gougar, by the unanimous
vote of the convention, presided, and dispatched business with
her characteristic ability. In view of all the circumstances,
this convention and its results were highly satisfactory. The
attendance was not large, but the fact that the call was issued
from Topeka to the press of the State but eight days before the
convention met, and probably did not reach half the papers in
time for one insertion, accounts for the absence of a crowd. Some
even in Topeka learned that the convention was in progress barely
in time to reach its last session. Reporters for the Topeka
_Capital_, the Topeka _Commonwealth_ and Kansas City _Journal_
attended all the day sessions of the convention, and gave full
and fair reports of the proceedings. After the adjournment of the
State convention, the women of Topeka formed a city society. The
corresponding secretary, Mrs. Ellsworth, with Mrs. Clara B.
Colby, made an extensive circuit, lecturing and organizing
societies. They were everywhere cordially welcomed.[479]

Kansas has a flourishing Women's Christian Temperance Union which
at its last annual meeting adopted a strong woman suffrage
resolution; Miss O. P. Bray of Topeka is its superintendent of
franchise. Mrs. Emma Molloy of Washington, both upon the rostrum
and through her paper, the official organ of the State Union,
ably and fearlessly advocates woman suffrage as well as
prohibition, and makes as many converts to the former as to the
latter.

Mrs. A. G. Lord did a work worthy of mention in the formation of
the Radical Reform Christian Association, for young men and boys,
taking their pledge to neither swear, use tobacco nor drink
intoxicating liquors. A friend says of Mrs. Lord:

Like all true reformers she has met even more than the usual
share of opposition and persecution, and mostly because she
is a woman and a licensed preacher of the Methodist church
in Kans