Wichita eagle., 1888-07-17

if any unrepresented class can be said IL
belong to party.
And as woman is loyal to her party I'll:
only natural that she should be Willing
| to do all In her power for The success OF
| the chosen candidate: and the Repub
llcan party In the past has been grateful
| for woman s aid.
| AS early as in 90 Anna E. Dickinson
was invited by the state central com
mlttee to lecture for that party In New
Hampshire, which resulted In q Repub-
lican victory. After the election she
was employed to lecture In Connecticut,
when the contest was between Seymour
and Buckingham, and 1t was generally
understood thatif Seymour was elected
Connecticut would furnish no more
| troops or money for the war. As a proof
| of Miss Dickinson's tact and eloquence,
she was invited TO make the closing and
most important speech of the campaign,
for the men were willing TO rest Their
case upon her efforts, and she carried
the doubtful state by few hundred,
while the Democrats had boasted they
would carry it by ten thousand.
She was well paid for her services-was
presented with a watch and chain. re-
ceived hundred dollars for every night
she spoke and four hundred for the last
night before the election.
Matilda Fletcher may not be Miss Dick
nsons equal as an orator, but the Re
publican party had better thankfully ac-
cept all the help they can get if Harrison
ever reaches the white house.
You tell the women to so to the party
that sympathizes in their cause. If the
Republicans Were true to their princi-
pies there would be no need TO seek JUS
tice at other hands. It's unfortunate
that the Republican party at the Chicago
convention failed to see the grand oppor-
tunity for success and to perpetuate its
own existence. But as they refused, it
occurs TO me that women should be in
dependent in politics until they are en-
franchised, then work for the partysthat
has been most loyal II truth and the
principles of right.
In regard to the anarchists you
say that ''the women'S presence
as factor was not only harmful but
demoralizing. If true, why: Simply
they Were not eqrai--if they had an
equal says they had not equal respon-
sibility. Women need the responsibility
of citizenship. They have no voice in
helping to make the laws that they are
compelled to obey, consequently they
are all the more urged TO bitterly de-
nounce the law and the government III
general which should derive its power
from the consent of the governed"
''They hung the male leaders of the
Chicago mob of murderers, but haven't
been able to stop Mrs. Parsons tongue
and will not till they have another hang
ing. The inference is that she was
equally guilty: such being the case she
should have paid the penalty along by
the side of her husband. Oh, no; women
are not too good to be hanged and inn
prisoned, although called angels of
mercy and queens of the home. Being
queen of the home was little avail to the
poor wife whose case was reported in
Thursdays EAGLE as having been
beaten by the husband until she
was compelled to flee to neighbor
for protection, with her young babe only
a few weeks old in her arms But there
viii be repetitions of such outrages as
long as women are considered as slaves
and belong to men. An unrepresented
and the ballot in the hands of women
"OuLu no HlOIt 10 stOp Ills vic DcdtlHS
than all the Police Courts.
You say that "the Republican party
wants as much practical sense and sound
principle in this campaign as possible"
yet have noticed that women object to
being told that they are deficient IN
those respects, and | doubt the policy of
even an editor to make such an adm1s-
sion. Yours for fair play,
STrp:IrN Sr (tT AID