The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-06-07
PUBLISHED By REQUEST.
PURIFYING POLITICS.
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Association" held in New York on the
9Th ult., Mrs LUcRETIA MoTT, the Pres.
ident, stated that $4,000 was needed
TO carry the elections in Kansas and Wis
consin," and collection was taken up
for that purpose! The women seem TO
be learning the appliances of political
struggles fast, and are evidently not at all
ashamed to adopt them!
In Mound City, IN this State. the fight
over the suffrage question is principally
confined to the women, who, we learn
from our exchanges, are calling one an
other ''sluts,' and applying other en-
dearing epiIhets of like character
The Kansas papers are filled with com
munications from the women, ard, with
but few exceptions, their language and
temper is most happily illustrative of the
statement that "women will purify poll
ricsl' We have been engaged in the
newspaper business for thirteen years, and
have known some bitter personal conlro-
versies and read some fierce political dis
cussions, but We do not remember having
ever seen in print language as severe, as
abusive, and as Incorporate, as is used
by the women who engage in these con
troversies. Take the recent article in the
Free Press of the 5th inst, purporting
to be written by woman, as an example
The gentlemen who preside over Police
Courts in the cities, aud who are, conse-
queutly, familiar with the vulgar billings
gate of the abandoned. can probably
recall to mind similar language, but we
doubt if any persons, whose experience
has not been as wide and as painful, can
Mrs. AMEs, the Washington CORES
pendent of the New York Independent,
gives the following picture of female
lobbyist, who is refining politics" at
the Capital ofthe Nation. most excellent
place to commence operations:
Leaning back in deep chair, no one
near her, you see a fair women, whose
beautiful presence seems at variance with
the many anxious and angular and the
few coarse women around her. The
calmness of assured position, the serene
satisfaction of conscious beauty, envelope
her and float from her like an atmosphere
We feel it even here. Pale plumes d. oop
above her lovely forehead, velvet draper
les fall about her graceful form. We
catch glimpse of alluring laces. the
CLEAN of jewels glittering on dimplsd,
ungloved hands. Look long into this
face; its eplendor Of tint and perfection
of outline can bear the closest scrutiny
Look long, and then say if a soul sanity
as we'll as serene looks out from under
those peucilled arches, through the diIa-
ting irises of those beguiling eyes. Look!
and the unveiled gaze which meets yours
will tell you as plainly as gaze can tell.
that adulation is the life of its life, and
seduction the secret of its spell. This
beauty would not blanch before the pros
fanest sight; it is the beauty of one who
tunes her tongue to koneyed accents, and
lifts up he: eyelids to lead men astray
She comes and goes in a snowy carriage.
She glides through the corridors; haunts
the galleries and the anterooms of the
eapitol-everywhere conspicuous in her
beauty. Ali who behold her inquire:
"Who is that beautiful Woman?" No
body seems quite sure. Doubt and mys-
terry envelope her ike a cloud. ''She is
rich aud beautiful widow" ''She is un-
married;" ''Sbe is visiting the city with
her husband" Every gazer has differ
enL answer.
There are few deep in the secrets of
diplomacy, of legislative veGality, of gov
eminent prostitution, who can tell you
that sue is one of thes most dangerous of
the lobbyists. She is but one of class
always beautiful and always successful.
She plays for large stakes; but she always
wins. The man who says to her, secure
my appointment, make sure my promo
ton, and viii! pay you so many tbous-
ands. Does she wait like a suppiiant?
Not at all. She sits like an empress wait
ing to give audience. Win she receive
her subjects in promiscnous assemblage?
No. II you wait long enough, you see
her glide over these tresselated floors; not
alone. Far from the crowd in come an
teroom sumptuous enough for the Syb-
rites, this woman, as beautiful as nature
and art can make her, will dazzle the
sight Of half demented and wholly be-
Wildered magnate, and then tell him What
she wants. With alluring eyes and be-
quilting voice, she will beseige his will
through the Outworks of bis senses, and
so charm him to do her pleasure. He
promises her his influence, be promises
her his power, her favorite shall hsYe the
boon be demands. Thus some of the
highest prizes in the government are
woa.'
If this system continues long enough
10 allow the men to gsea fair glimpse of
its consequences, if men who respect
women. and nomen WEo respect them
selves wiz only stop for moment to think
of tbe results of such a total revolution
or our whole social. as we'll as political
condition, there will be an end Of such
senseless twaddle as woman "refning poll
iIics?" If the movement to give the
women the franchise is successful we
shall ejoice to End that it does not drag
males as well as females down to unutter-
able depths, or thai It leaves our social
condition even as good as it ia now. But
talk of women refining politics. is so
utterly absurd aud preposterous that any
sensible person ought to be ashamed TO
mention il.
A Young man named Lyman Jones, a
,.e;Jo,F 81 fILEton park aCarafor,ar oor1rtxy