The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-21
MRS. LEASE ma Low NECK ORES
From Harper's weekly.

From Harper's weekly.
1t NAV be remembered by persons
who take q lively interest IN politics
that they had az election a few weeks
| ago in the charming, If remote. COM
mOnwealth of Kansas, at which time a
! gentleman named Lorraine d. Lewelling
was elected Governor of the state. 1t Is
a remarkable fact that a man with a
| name at once so Hmpid, sonorous, and
| aristocratic should have been elected by
| the votes of that magnificent army OF
| the plain people"-as they are pleased t.
call themselves-the Peoples party, yet
| such is the fact: and i. shows incident
| ally that even noble and upright man
| map bear an aristocratic name, and also
| that the voice of the Peoples party is
almighty in Kansas.
1t now appears that certain frivolous
persons living In Topeka had planned Il
ceremonial for the Inauguration of Gov
ernOr-elect Leweiling. which was to in
clude a grand inauguration ball; but
that Spartan parsonage opposed the idea
on the ground that such a function
would not compose with the simple prin-
cipleS of the Peoples party. At mass
meeting of PopulIsts long series of reSo-
lutionS was adopted, setting forth the
sentiment that "the recent political VIC
/ tory was won by the plain people OF
KSnSas, and was victory against mann
mon-worship in all its forms; it was but
one battle in all the irresistible conflict
between the people and all that greed
which finds its most Turing exponent IN
society, with its ostentatious display OF
pos er to spend money for trities, while
those who earned it starve;" together
with many other expressions OF hatred
and contempt for the un-Amerlcan char
acter of dancing parties, including the
assertion that "the plain people of Kan
sas who elected the new state officers
cannot look but with anxiety upon any
indication that the officers have submit
ted to the allurements of that fashion
able society which represents all the the
enemies of the common people, and,
based upon wealth gained 10y monopoly,
constitutes dangerous lobby about the
officials it may secure in its meshes."
These noble sentiments were the crys-
talzation of many speeches made by
various thoughtful patriots, but among
all those who denounced the sickening
idea of fashionable ball, certain Mr..
Frank Herald made the deepest inn
preston. He said that he had just
come from an interview with
that wonderful woman Mrs. Mary E.
Lease, named by her enemies "tle
Jumping Cassandra of Wichita" from
her mournful prophecies of evil TO come
in case she were not elected to the
United States senate, for embership in
which plutocratic body she has been
working very hard. Mrs. Lease had told
II a.. -
dance, but was dead against any low
neck and swallow-tail affair" This an
nouncement was received with deafen-
ing applause, and the fashionable
Inauguration ball died a-borning.
He was a malignant Republican office
holder, soon to be shaved by the Peoples
guillotine, who said that he knew why
Mrs. Lease didn't want to wear low
necked dress. a more outrageous in
situation never disgraced a polit-
zeal campaign. Although, in the
Kansas phrase, Mrs. Lease Is
a spare lady, yet there is no reason to
believe she would not adorn any gown
she might wear; and the sneer of Dem
ocratic politician, to the effect t. at Gov
ernor-elect Lewelling preferred TO wear
his trousers tucked into his bOotlegs III
order TO keep his silver dollars from
falling through the holes of his pockets
to the floor, is a SANDER equally scanda-
lous. The Peoples party won the cleo
ton in Kansas, and Populist ideas must
become popular. The swollen aristoc-
racy of Topeka may not presume 10
teach the plain people how to inaugurate
their governor. It is a broad general
truth that what Mrs. Mary E. Lease says
"goes" in Kansas. and if any body Is
disposed to doubt it, let him consult Mr..
Mary E. Lease.