The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-15
OBJECT LESSONS IN FEMALE SUI
FRAGG.

The EAGLE has in the past set out,
clearly enough, that it was not opposed
to female suffrage because we thought
white ballot communicating, or that
the mental effort necessary to a choice
between parties or candidates would dis
tract the mind of the average woman,
nor yet that the simple duty OF attend
ing the polls and depositinS ballot
would in any way demoralize wife or
daughter; but, because the ballot affords
the opportunity to public life and for
which certain and very small per cent
of womankind abuormally pant and
long. These, in their ambitions, world
force the willing and unwilling women
alike to the polls as inevitably as that
women are human and as that they will
go farther and to greater ex-
tremes than men to circumvent
an opponent. Being more refined ia
their sensibilities, and more keenly
alive in their likes and dislikes, in the
heat of a campaign, wherein some of
their own sex were standing for Office,
home and its duties, motherhood and its
obligations, society and the church and
their demands, would all be lost sight of
until the political fight had been formal
ly closed and the wounds growing out of
it healed over. AS under our system,
with national, state, county and munich
pal elections following rapidly and al
most continuously, and women running
for offices in each, the leaven Of discon-
tent found with the few like
Laura II. Johns and her CO.
adjutors would soon permeate the
whole social fabric until all
that man holds sacred in home,
and dear from a sentimental standpoint,
would be eliminated from life and in the
end woman would be found to be no
better than man, and man worse than
be is under the present order.
An object lesson Of just what we mean
was found in yesterday mornings EAGLE
Partizans of candidates in their efforts
20 persuade women to avail themselves
Of their privilege of the ballot in mu-
licipal elections are confronted with the
organ;za ton of "Colored Lady's Vot-
ng club" Other women's political Or
CARNATIONS would within larger sphere
follow, after which would
come the struggle to capture them, and
hen the necessary price, whether such |
price were Office, cash, or politi- |
al dicker or only that by |
which our lady correspondent
10 facetiously referred---a pound Of |
ANDY. Women in politics-the mem
,ers of like clubs referred to-would !
threaten the merchant with a loss Of |
rade should his wife refuse to stand by
md vote with them-as was done
n two towns in this state two years ago
editors and preachers with loss of sup
,ort, artisans, professions and manufac-
urers with boycott, should they refuse
o drag their wives to the hustings, and
% on and so on, with other things and
extremes to which men would dare not
esort. Isms have already almost laid
he Republican party away to rest. and
his woman suffrage move bids fair to
Jury it in Kansas out of sight.
This is not another EAGLE rebellion,
'ut in the light of subsequent troubles
nd defeats, where is the Republican
Who will not admit that the party has
'een crippled and weakened by too
many attempted and supposed progress
i've steps, too much McKinleyism and
and too little of conserv-
tive common sense?