, 1888-01-19
Col. Turner Takes tho Stump.

Col turner .TakeS tire stump
The meeting ut the opera house
last night showed eloquently the
hopeless weakness of the wOmen's
suffrage cause In this community.
1t was cold, dull and stupid, and tho
Indifferent speakers who raved about
their pet "is,ns" danced before n
''beggarly array Of empty benches."
The linus NJ the gathering were u
gentleman named sutton and Col,
Turner, M attorney III tie town.
Like ni'Ist extremists, both speakers
cont enied themselves with abusing
their neighbprs, and like all hare
Drained enthusiasts, they cannot SEQ
the other sIde Of the question. Ex.
treupIy temperate men, too gOOd, as
the old philosopher said, To live ON
this side of heaven, are invariably
extremely incorporate. Colonel
Turner Is such u gentleman. He has
a brother on the bench who H. gene
rally respected throuyhout the terri.
Ory, and In order to gain the fleet
my applause Of arl insigniticant au-
iierce he accused the supreme court
II having given "aO extremely par
tisan decision" ON the legality Of the
women's suffrage bill. On the local
ISSUE his extravagance knew no
hounds. He made the assertion that
very h0o'iium in tuwp, every lewd
woinsn, every man who lives on the
lraiities Of fair women, every gamb-
ler, every ssl,Wn keeper, had signed
the pp,ition against the bin. Col.
Tu. ner knows not Vf what he speaks,
or h. culpably misstntes the truth.
IL he hud taken the trouble to en-
Quirr before he rushes'On to q public
plaif form and makes himself ridicu-
ious in the eyes VI the world he would
have found that tho petitiOn has
heen signed by the best and truese
flower Of wOnIanhoOd in the city, he
would have found that % per cent
Of the business men Of the town
have signed IL, and Of all the
nearly live huimired women who
have signed the petition, not one
tnlong, ~ that class Of whom tho
colonel spoke.
Col. Turner attacked the press for
the line IL rs taken an this issue.
He accused the REVIEW Of swapping
horses. Again he made an error
which We shall charitai,ly attribute
To- his ignorance. The REVIEW,
during its whole career, has stead.
fastly opposed woman suffrage. IL
opposed II when first brought up, 1T
has constantly Opps,sed II, and it OPP
poses 1t to-day, l,rcause 1t believes
that wonen's mission Is In the home
and not In the arena of politics
where she would he brought In con-
tact with elements course and con-
tamiuating. We are very sorry that
our STANDARD Of excellence Is not In
accord with the ripe Judgment OF
Cui. Turner. IL Is pleasing that we
err, though, In the RN,d conipany Cf
| all our cDiitenI pUrarit,a On the sound.
We ito trust, however, that the bell
licUse colonel Will spare our "fiimsy
sheet" for just little while, that we
may be able yet. to write tho
obituary of woman suffrage In
Washington territory. James N.
Clio yer, the r,ndtatherUf our town.
and John A. Todd, were the two
other subjects washed with the
colonel'a venom. The colonel evil
IDENTITY knows no,hing about the
panhandle, consequently he thinks
that John a. TOdd and and James
N. Glover knew nothing about it,
also, aud when they state that the
panhandle Is opposed To the suffrage,
II follows. In the colonel s curious
| chain of reasoning, that these two
gentlemen, whom we have known
IN Spokane Falls long before Colonel
| Turner came among Us, are "stating
something they knew to bs untrue"
But enough of this irrational man
and the subject matter Of his address.
| II were time he learned that accusa-
tiOns unsupported are no argument.
and that he cannot bolster up .
hopeless cause by abuse Of men who
are honOred and respected In COM
munity which has known them for
years.