The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-05-10
FEMALE SUFFRAGE.

/ In the Tribune OF the 24Ih ult., is
communication upon female outrage, pur
porting 10 be written by lady. The ed
itor takes the trouble to Assure his read
ers that the writer was q real lady,
''trus" lady. Now notwithstanding this
assurance, l much prefer TO believe that i
vas written by man than a woman. dc
not believe that any lady, "true" or 9th
communication. If so give me Lucy
Stone, Antoinette Brown aud Maria Child
in preference, for they are angels of re
fnems ut compared with such q woman.
Imagine refined, ''trwe'' lady utter
ing the following:
Lucy Stone, of Impartial suffrage
notoriety, travelling around under the au
spices Of State Senators, ex Governors
and Judges of Kansas, with Doctor
Blackwell, she the chief engineer of the
menageris, reminding one forcibly of a
city lady, whose husband struck 'ile,
promenading Broadway. leading & poodle
by string. while the baby If she has
any, is left with foreign wet nurse.
Poor old H. B., be only seems to need a
collar, properly leitsrsd to make the pic
ture complete"
Now, it is barely possible a female may
have penned these lines, but it is certain
no lady or true a0ORaGH ever did. Not only
is the language uulady like but grossly
ungrammaticsl. 0, No; the writer was
only man in womAn's disguise, and Sc
l shall treat him.
He tells Us that in Baldwin City, there
a Al iaae q 4
eloquent" as Mrs. Lucy. Quite likely,
and | would suggest that this writer refer
his letters to some one of this dozen for
correction before Offering them for publ
cation. They could doubtless suggest
improvements both inhis taste and gram
mar.
This female man seems to take excep-
tons to Mrs. Lucy travelling under the
auspices OF Senators, ex-GoVernors, judy
es, &c.
If the Governor. Lieutensnt-Gv
all the State Judges, two-Lhirds of both
houses of the Legislature and the ex.
Governors aud Lieutenant Governors are
favorable to suffrage without respect to
color or sex, IT certainly cannot be Mrs..
stones fault. Ali of these men have
bseu endorsed by white men voters as
suitable persons to fiji their respect
i've offices, and if they are not fit
persons for ladies to associate with it is
cerainfy time the women of Kansas were
permitted to vote and elect such as are.
Mrs Mr.. E says, ''place her woman }
10 contact with the leRd, The Vicious, the
coarse and the braWliOg, and she would
lose much of her self respect, DC. She
could not dabble in the dirty pool of pol.
iIics without humiliation and Disgrace -
IHdeed! VINO are those leWd, vicious
and brawling voters that women must
shun or become contaminated, and what
becomes with them before and after cleo
ton? Why. they are old, middle aged
aud young men, of every rank and condi-
ton in life. Before and after going down
into this dirty pool they live with mother,
sister, wife or maiden, on the most inti
mate Ierms.s Both before and after the
debauch Of an election they visit the ball
room the concert th lecture and.the church
with some Of these ''cAaste and eloquent"
ladies, who live al Baldwin City. These
very sensitive ladies of Mrs. Mr.. E., will
take the arm of one of these vile, brawl
ing voters as he comes reeking from his
infamy, accompany him TO church, sit 10
the same pew, spend the day and night
with him, and finally become his wife,
and there ia no Contamination, no ''hI.
initiation" or disgrace But to 90 with
this man to the polls to vote, thus keep
ing him sober and decorous. would ruin
the female sex, even though it were bat
once year. When people who swallow
camels with the greatest ease are found
strsining desperately at gnas, there must
be something wrong.
But this man in disguise, after denouu-
cling the connection OF woman With the
dirty pool Of politics, plunges into the
mire with his disguise still on in the fol-
lowing manner:
land above all LEI not the great Re
publican party Of Kansas allow to be
fastened upon it this incubus of Impair
Lial suffrage, this chimera Of woman's
rights, which is only wrong and that con-
Iinually.''
o. Mrs. man, with petlicoats on, how
came you, the Fepresen GsGiVe OF the pure.
to know anything about poEtics? What
is tbe Great Republican party to you?
How came you, representative of this
delicate, ''efEeminale," prudish sex, to
know the difference between q Republican
and Democrat, and, if you know anything
about this dirty subject, why do you
care? Whatever you are, whether man
OF womaD, you evidently fsela deep inter
est 10 party politics, and think you know
enough upon the subject % advise Ukle
meH how to vote. Now, IF you are
woman, would iG not be very agreeable to
ado your vote to your ''chasIe and elo-
quenI" advice? How convenient such
ching Hould be 70 have in the house, 70
be used in eases Ofenergency, for instance
SO inst these Senator's, Judges, Govern
ors, ex-GoVernors and Mayors who are
cOuntsnanciDg. such bFainless creatures
az Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell.
thfs. E. thinks women should submit
gracefully - the course of Eve" and
beaE children As ''by command Of God
himself" and that they can ma ntiaH- no
higher positions in society than to ''be the
wife of an haHorabIe man, one that she can
love aud respect, taking her place conf
dsntly by bis side, feeling and. realizing
that she has strong arm upon Which to
lean. WaFm heart beatiDgin unison with
hsFs whose active brsin and willing hands
sre exercised for her support, apd whose
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