Wichita eagle., 1889-03-22
raELap1Es OF WICHITA.

| Inc EAGLE Is very prOuu, more PROUD
| than it can we'll express, of the exalted
stand that the women, the wives, mothers
and daughters of this city, have taken in
| the matter of the effort which some cranks
| and busybodys are making to force them
| into taking hand in the scramble for a
| lot Of petty offices now going on in this
| city. There are number of women in
| this city who are outrunning the bounds
| in their effort to get women into public
| life, and into Office, to get women to vote
| and to get themselves into notice. In their
unnatural and unwomanly ambitions they
| ignore the convictions of others and make
demands, which if made by male poll
tician, would be answered by an insult or
an assault. These women act and talk
as if the average man and average woman
didn't know their own minds. The result
| of their strange and masculine vehemenee,
in issuing calls, getting up petitions, hav-
ing posters printed, etc, has been to
| arouse to action that very class of women
whose life, influence and example are a
menace to all virture. There is not a
sensible woman in this city that don't
perfectly well understand that SO far as
her welfare and that of her husband and
that of her children are concerned that it
can make no possible difference whether
Sam Smith or John Jones is elected to the
ward or school district office for which
they are running. Every lady in this
city knows just as well as we do
what is the meaning of all this screeching
and midnight caucusing by a lot of furious
females who had better be attending to
their home duties if they know how. Ii
their homes do not demand their presence
and we suspicion that their homes are
happier in their absence-let them turn
their energies to some intellectual, relig-
ious Or charitable channel. There are
things which have occurred in this city
within the past week which would make
every lover of modesty and nobility in
women, blush, every man who reveres the
memory of his mother, loves his
wife, nutures his daughter, OR
respects his sister, wish that
they had occurred in some other land so
far away that there could never be any
danger of them touching his life, or those
who are dearer to him than life. So the
EAGLE is proud Of the fact that the great
majority of the sweet partners Of our lives,
and the innocent girls of our homes, have
not been nor cannot be dropped into hacks
or other vehicles and hauled over town
and off to some smoky registering place,
or vulgar polling place, to there cut
figure and render themselves ridiculous in
behalf of some itching office-hunter who
Is too lazy to work for his home or his
bread or for some woman whose am bition
to be seen of men oversteps all that the
FRI a N
We are not ignorant of the fact that
there are men In this city who will APP
plaud their wives and mothers in getting
out on election day in the interest of some
of these office-itchers, place hunters whom
they themselves would not make conf
dents or associates of, but the reason they
will thus applaud will be because they
can't help themselves, because they are
endeavoring to make the best of an I'M
pleasant fact. But, deep down in their
hearts they all the while wish that there
was no such thing as the dirty caucus, or
that otherwise that those so dear to them
were more like the great majority of
women whom he admires and respects for
their womanly qualities. their in
stinctive and intuitive resolution
not to be made a vulgar cats paw of
by the Mandy Ways. Helen Cougars and
and the scores of perepetetic female per-
ambuIators who put in their lives wander
ing about the world from community to
community, living on the charity of those
whom they pretend to instruct but whom
they gull.
All over the west, in fact throughout the
United States, Wichita is famed for her
bright, enterprising men. She is no less
entitled to fame for her glorious, womauly
women who adorn the home-life as the
neil the business-life of our proud young
city, which these women would render RI
diculous in the eyes OF the civilized world
on election days.