, 1891-05-01
MISS DICKINSON TALKS.
A Remarkable Lecture That
Upset Her Audience
Says Prominent Men Wrote
Her Love Letters.
Whites and Blacks Breaking
Laws in Indiana.

NEW NoRE. April 3O.-Anna Diskln.
son was disappointed with the audience
which partly filed the Broadway theatre
last evening to hear her speak on tho
theme, Personal Liberty. Every one
present expected t. hear a great deal
about her recent incarceration in the Dan.
vile insane asylum, but u one had the
remotest expectation OF such a h]araoguc
as she delivered.
1t was embarrassing to the audience and
drove some OF them out of the house.
The parluet and balconies were about
two-thirds filled. Scattered throughout
the house were many women prominent
in wumans rights movements in the past
Miss Dickinson was half an hour late.
She wore a Elack lace dress made over
a green skirt, The corsace was cut v.
shape and she wore a corsage bouquet Of
red flowers. Diamonds splrkled ON her
fingers and wrists. Her hair wgs cut
short.
When Miss Dickinson appeared she
was heartily cheered- She smiled. and
then stood silent for a momcut or so.
When she finally spoke her voice trembIsd
with ,mOtidu.
Il have faced a great many audiences
under all circumstances and conditions.
she began, with many causes 10 plead
that We're pre- %cmiueutly unpopular. 1t
las ALWAYS been for others for whom /
spoke, But at last | have been compelled
to speak tor myself | tell Won frankly
that | don't know how to talk to YOU.
For remember this-is a talk. Don't call
tadisioiuted lecture. | have been called
thebest known woman in America. Til
now, no, till the 22d OF February lasr,
was applauded by millions. Early IN
her remarks she broke down aud went.
When she had recovered she referred Ia
her Incarceration at DluviIle insane asy.
lum.
"I'm not young. she SAID. mot hand
some. not attractive. but do | laok like an
insane paupcr3 Nneu | was a girl of
II | stood shoulder TO shoulder
u such men as Sumner. Wilson,
Philips, great heroes Of a great time.
They didn't say | was a child. a pretty
girl. | stood shoulder to shoulder then
with giants of a gigantic age. | was a
soldier, a leader.
She referred to her tour tor the Re
publican party through the coal regions in
the days of the Molly MaguirCs. 10 her
visits TO places where men dared not 20.
She spoke six hours ont OF the twenty
tour, she said. and was rotten egged and
shot at Tor what is now called Republi-
clnism. She had been trampled on
long enough. she declared. and proposed
to assert herself now.
She had a right to speak. She accused
the state Republican committee of Penn
%sylyania OF still owing her every penny it
entered into contract to pay Tor that trip
Then she began the haraugue which dis
tuTbed the audience. The objects Of her
attack were the editor Of the IriBtue, the
postmaster general, the Hon. James s.
Clarkson, and Gen. Butler and an apaz-
ing collection of tattle il was. Mr.. Clark
son she said had written her letters which
he wOuldn.t like Mrs. Clarkson to see.
Ben Butler had written her love letters.
too. she said, in which he called her Il2-
zlc. She had heard President Harrison
quarrel with his wife at the dinner table
tat which she, the lecturer. was a guc.t.
over the way the chicken legs were lying
on the platter.
Its the first time that has been made
public, she said. Some Of tins talk was
vigorously Missed and some WAS Of such a
character that twenty-five men and women
got up and went out in more or less com
fusion.
She insinuated that the Republican
party and bosses of Pennsylvania we're
the cause of her incarceration in al asv-
lum, and she said she would have more
to say hereafter.