The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-01
THE WOMEN INDIGNANT.


AN OPEN LETTER 10 CANDIDATE cLAYPooL-
DUBLIN LADY APPLIES A BIT OF sANDPA-
PER.
To the Hon. b. F. Claypool, Republican Candi-
date for Congress in the Fifth District OF Indi-
ana:
Allow me, woman of the republic of the
United States of America, a thinking human
being ofthe nineteenth century. and an in
terested inbabitant of the village of Dublin,
Wayne county, Indiana, where you delivered
a political speech on last Saturday evening.
to give you faint idea how that speech
was received by many of your hear
ers. Meeting first intelligent school
girl and asking what impression your dis
course had made upon her, she answered me
sadly, .oh, Twas disappointed. 1 did not
think Mr. Ciaypool was polite TO ladies. j
have interested myself much during the
last year in the history of my country ana
its present condition. / went to hear Mr..
Ciaypool with desire to learn more but he
supposed right in the beginning of bis re-
marks that all young ladies would care more
Tor some passages OF poetry or scraps OF
| novels than for politics, ard presumed all
We knew about finance was that it took
money to buy our fancy dresses, and 1 am
so tired being always talked to as though
bad no thought above the vanity of dress"
next interviewed scbOol-teacner. a self
| taught, noble, cultivated aud still Young
woman. One who out of the earnings OF
her own industry has bought a comfortable
home for herself and her ather besides edu-
| eating her younger sisters. / would that
you, Mr.. Claypool, could have seen the
fine flash OF honest Indignation in that girls
| eyes as she told me of your manner of ad-
dressing the women before you. Woundipg
| at least, If not insulting them. by treating
| them as beings incapable of reasoning. and
OF far less Importance than the crowd OF
vulgar illiterate, tobacco-chewing bows
who in all village audiences far out-num6er
the thoughtful and intelligent men, who
leave their own cheerful firesides Tor the
| good OF their country, or the love of their
party, To hear some candidate tell the Oft
repeated tale OF the nations pressing need
| OF just men to fill her places of honor ana
profit, and who receive never SO much as a
| snub for investing their money in Broad
way necktle, new style Paris dress coat, or q
| polished stove-pipe hat-that article of dress
so wonderfully adapted to the needs of pro-
| lection to the masculine head through
all the changes or our c0untry's climate.
Nay, verify, never so much as a reproof for
| finance wasted on Principe cigars, the luxu-
| ~ OF cooling soda water, lemonade, or -.
| L know not how some communities may en-
joy or receive with indifference, your at
| tempt TO edify the women of Indiana. who
feel patriotic interest in the matters of
which you speak, but / do not know that
our village of Dublin has advanced far be-
yond that semi-barbarous condition, where
| it is considered eminently geDteeI TO shape
| remarks for women as for a class OF sim
| pletons.
Now, Mr., Claypool, l appeal to you in the
name of enlightened christianity and a sue
cessful common school system; in the name
of our beloved Indiana, State that can
| boast of such champions for woman's en-
Reimbursement as Robert Dale Owen, Schuy-
Ter Colfax. George w. Julian, r. w. Thomp-
| son, our Senators Morton and Pratt, with
Bishop Bowman added land these
| men have not seven other equals
In the StateG in the name of
| the mothers and wives, sisters and daugh-
| tiers of this commonwealth, and ask if you
can not give woman helping hand on the
great highway of life, that you will az least
pause, reflect, and conclude not to cripple
your own influence, dwarf your own
| manhood in vain efforts to retard her prog
ress. Respectfully, LOUISE V. BOYD.
DUBLIN, Ind, Aug. "a 1874.