The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-09-28
WOMAN IN POLITICS.

Chicago Tribune: Inconsistency, thy
name is woman. The danger of giving
Office u woman is illustrated in the case
OF Mass Sarah Il. Brown, of Lawrence,
Kansas. Sarah made her debut IN poll
tics some time ago as The Democratic
candidate for state superintendent of in
structIon- This nf itself is a sufficient
argument To- shSw the danger of allow
ing woman 10 dabhle in politics. In
the <iTsI place, IL is an indication of the
recklessness of woman that she should
affiliate with the Democratic party at all
and in the second place it is an instance
Of bad judgment that, as women cannot
bear disappointment as well as men, and
want To reach success with a Tel-el- Ke-
Dir rush, Sarah Brown should have
jumped at Democratic nomination in
an overwhelmingly Republican state.
IL IN needless la say that Sarah Brown
did not become state superintendent of
instruction for reasons manifest enough
TO every one but herself.
But Sarah did not rest content. She
has turned Il complete somerset, and
now appears as u candidate for nomina-
ton To the office of county super
intendent on the Republican side. In
this acrobatic feat Sarah Brown put
at defiance all the traditions of Dem
Ocracy, especially the noble old legend
under which its followers so cheerfully
and regularly march To defeat-namely !:
Once Bourbon, always Bourbon. Ev-
identity if she can't have fruit on the top
of one tree she is going to try 10 have
fruit ON the bottom of another, and IT
she should fail tn reach this smaller ap
pie Of u county office instead of the state
one she wanted We shall next find her
grabbing vigorously after the superin-
tendency of some city board of educa-
tion, and filling in this vigorously de-
manding u place AS school-teacher.
II Sarah Brown may he considered q
fair type of her sex in politics, what
hope is there for ciYil-service reform or
for that publication Of politics which
Mrs. Livermnre, Susan and the other lady
EZekiels are so fond of prophesying will
take place when lovely woman is guar
anteed the franchise and the right of hold
ing Office? In one short year or so Sarah
Brown swept around the complete polit-
ical circle, and then went off at a tan
gent TO IA lower plane Of official aspira-
ton than that where she started If all
women were allowed to enter the political
arena and performed such remarkable
acrobaiic feaIs as Sarah every time they
were disappointed what would become
OF the arenag To have verified the pro-
| phecies of the leaders Sarah Brown,
when she failed TO become a Democrat
ic state superintendent of Kansas, in
stead of whopping right over to the
Republican side to take lower Office
should have gathered her wraps about
her and awaited another onset and pre-
sented TO the world calm and dignitied
figure of female consistency, steadiness
of purpose, and singleness of aim in
sharp contrast with the trucking and
grOvelinG wriggles and twists Of the male
politician. And il woman is to purify
politics, why In the name of all that Is
consistent did she abandon that form of
politics that needs purifying more than
any other at the first adverse Whit
of fortune? Alas! we fear that women
are mortal after all, and that if the offices
were once opened to them they would
perform just such feats of ground and
lofty tumbling ia reaching for them that
now characterize the odioss men with
out once stopping to remeinber their du.
ty of purifying politics.