Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-04-30
ANNA DICKINSON.
Sad Exhibition Of Her Insanity at q
Public Lecture.
PURSUED By IMAGINARY ENEMIES

i
She Holds That Republican Party Leaders
Caused Her Incarceration and Rambles
On Incoherently Into British
New YORK, April GA performance
of Cleopatra" held the boards of the
Broadway theater until late Saturday
night After it was finished the stage
was set for a parlor scene, and Miss
Anna Dickinson appeared to deliver a
lecture upon Personal Liberty" It
was her first public appearance since
her confinement in an insane asylum.
There was not a large audience, but
those present welcomed her with APP
plause She was attired in white with
black trimming. The corsage was cut
low and red roses were fastened to it
Miss Dickinson opened her address
with violent attack upon the repub-
lican party and with bitter words
against various persons prominent in
public life. The personal characterize
tons were in many instances such that
ladies who occupied orchestra chairs
arose and with their escorts left the
theater She paid little or no attention to
these OBJECTIONS.
Miss Dickinson frequently punctuated
her utterances by appealing to her
hearers with this question; "Wel,
folks do you think 1 am insane?" She
spoke of the postmaster-general as
s'Merciful Heaven Wanamaker." This
queer remark was received with Kisses
She dwelt at great length upon what
Il, 70 M, ofa Of
Wanamaker and J. S. Clarkson. Her
imprisonment at the Danville insane
asylum was her chief theme.
She declared it was due to a con-
| spiracy of j. S. Clarkson, Col. w. w.
Dudley and Senator Quay. They wanted
! her, she said to stump the country for
them in the campaign of 1888 and she
| was given a blank check to fill in for
whatever compensation she wished.
The provision, however, she declared,
was that she should not speak at all
| about the black man. 81 was poor, "
she continued, ''but as heaven is my
w less did not want their money be-
cause they wanted my voice to be silent
on the slave question"
Then Miss Dickinson, accompanied
by her lessened audience, with counte-
nances indicating pity and regret,
rambled on about visit to Mr.. Harri-
| son at Indianapolis She avowed that
she was promised $3.50 for every
speech she made in 1855 and S., 900 each
| if her candidates should be successful.
| She then turned her attention toward
| General Butler, and these are some OF
words: 1.-The papers have said that
there has been a controversy between
u.s. Mr.. Butler has written me letters.
and they were addressed to
Lizzie He is the only
man who has ever addressed
me by my middle name. He knew
what he was doing, but he will answer
for it all in court of law. l have had
| unnumbered Sorrows, and I do Nc
place a mask or veil over any of them. ,
Speaking over her theatrical expert
ence, the lecturer declared in vehement
terms that the press of the country had
maligned her. She never lost money
by the venture. Her income from long
ago, she said, had been $40, 600 annually.
She had lost 500, 900 in bond specula
| tionS.
Passing from her stage experience
| Miss Dickinson stated what she de-
clared were the reasons for her confine
ment in the asylum. She made the
to the republican party and she charged
that party with placing her in the
asylum. She declared, in the mex
breath, that the defeat of Mr.. Cleve
land in 1883 was due to the fact that SHE
had been in the ranks against him
Then she rambled again toward British
politics, and spoke of dining will
Parnen and thinking him
sslittle tin god on wheels" The
democratic party of the country. sh'
said, was trying to dethrone him TheI
she lauded the democratic party, ano
resorted again to such personalities tina
her utterances were Missed, and more o
, her audience left.
When it was all over many of thos,
friends who had remained with grow
ing sadness until the end slowly flet
out of the play house with words o.
commiseration and with faces upol
which was evidenced the fact that
sorrowful conclusion had been reached