St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-01
DANGER OF FEMALE RULE.

DANdIEk OF FEMALE RULE.
Perhaps ii is not too much to say that
a woman will battle ali tine efforts of the
most cunning politicians in Illinois to
elect a senator that plant demagogue,
STREETEE. The wife of Senator and
General LOGAN was his most efficient
aid in his civil triumphs. This is
familiar fact. She now remembers that
SrREETEE was most obdurate obstacle
TO the last victory for her husband on
the spot he now seeks one. and her re-
proving words come over the wires to
the faithful friends of her husband and
herself to never surrender to the unholy
combination. 1t is believed to seal its
fate. In Kansas two bright and per-
Suaslvc women are awarded the credit
of the political revolution, so far,a least,
as to swell its volume to success and
compel the dismissal of Senator IN
CALLS from his public station. One was
Mrs. ANNIE DIGGs, weight 1O5 pounds,
height 81 inches; and the other
large woman named LEASE. They
were representatives of the Alliance,
and fitted all over the state, persuading
and converting by their eloquent speech.
They would baYe INGALLS, made a po-
litical mummy because he opposed
female ballot privileges. The little
woman was the most potent charmer,
and she did lot return to her knitting
when the scoop was landed in Novem-
Der. She went to the capital as the
principal part of an Alliance committee
appointed to advise the legislature. Day
by day since her presence has been seen
and felt there. AS the voice of the
Alliance women of the state, her ca
dences may have been low and tender,
but they commanded unfaltering low
atty. The Alliance had big majority
III the house, and the gentle. gracious
little lady sat in the lobby with alert
and Vigilant eyes. She advises, per-
suades and indicates measures. Her
frOWn IS social OStracism none have
dared to incur. She prepared and had
passed the bill to give women equal
privileges with men IN voting aud hold
ing Office. Some Of the members
squirmed, and would have been glad to
dodge, but they did not have the nerve
in the presence of that pair of menacing
eyes. The last Alliance member came
up to the rack. Then she handed in
bill providing that on all the boards
managing public institutions, chart
able or educational. two out OF the five
shall be women. This, too. had @the
solid vote. There was a disposition to
submit the prohibition question. but The
little woman said nay. and they all
mayed. as 4. WARD, ESQ, was want to
put it. Bat to reach the other
branch of the Legislature different
tactics are requisite. 1t was elected a
year before the Alliance took the field,
and IS almost unanimously Of the party
that INGALLS, operates. A lobby is Or
gained. mostly of the wives Of members
and those whose Establishments are not
reduced by political or physical infe-
hcitles. 1t is believed quite probable
that success will be had in this more
dubious field. Old party names, how
ever, have no force with the ladies. In
the campaign the women arranged
Things. They boycotted the wives who
could not bring their husbands info
line; the girls cut their sweethearts
when they held out against the meas
ure, and country merchants lost the
traffic of Alliance ladies when they did
not put up the new banner. Little Mrs.
DIGGs is to 60 to Washington in due
time to observe the Alliance forces.
These cases are adduced but to
show that the women can operate
public affairs, as well as domestic, if
they see fit. If the Kansas women, how
ever. are samples of their sex at large
when the political infection pervades
and operates, the male element may in
wardly, at least, recOil from the posi-
bility of an epidemic Of the Kansas sort.