The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-07-04

and then there will be no occasion or
room for chivalry.
DIR. Woods sat at the reporters
table to the left of the platform, fan
ming himself gently and greatly en-
joying the silvery eloquence and brill.
ant humor of the fair speaker. Then
he was introduced and kept the audi
ence in great glee for several minutes
by his sallies of wit and abundant
bright savings. He said that he had
been beguiled into this en-
gagement and was not prepared
for such an emergency: that when he
came into town from down in the back
woods, he expected to find the charm
ing speaker who had preceded him,
snugly enconsed in her home on the
shores of Cape Cod. He had never
heard down his way that the women
wanted to vote and had seen very lit
tie of it in the newspapers. But he
was come to he offered up as sacri-
flee on the altar of his convictions.
Then. laying aside all bufioonery, as
he called it. he entered seriously into
the discussion of the question. He
declared his allegiance to the best
interests of woman. He would not
put straw in her way or raise the
slightest zephyr of opposition to her
advancement. She is not an angel,
he would impress upon young men,
but she was next to a celestial crea-
ture. He wanted the great colleges
and universities of the land
thrown open to her, and he
had found, in his observation and ex-
perience, that women possess ca
pacity to successfully cope with their
brethren in nearly all spheres of
mental endeavor. Their brain is of a
finer and different texture and this is
an argument that their environments
and pursuits are not to be as those of
men are. Her refining influences and
spiritual and moral characteristics are
intended for the home and the gentler
ways of lite But
FEW WOMEN HAVE RISEN
to eminence IN art, music. painting
and sculpture. 1t is around the
family circle that they are meant to
preside as queens and not at the
polls or in the hurley-burley of pro-
fessional and commercial life. The
speaker then made reference to woman
suffrage as tried in Kansas. He said
that. not universally, but as
a rule, 1.-The better class of women re-
manned away from the polls, and that
the votes of MANY of those who did
cast ballot. were given to uphold
evil and demoralizing measures. DIR.
Woods tribute to the sanctity of the
home, the Christian influence of
mother. daughter and sister, the
beauty of their moral and spiritual con-
stitutiOn, which would he corrupted
and even destroyed when brought into
the muddy whirl Of politics, was as
fine a sample of poetic expression and
ringing eioquence As was ever heard
in any hall or church in Sedalia. The
gifted orator had comp etely captiva-
ted his audience and held them bound
to him by cords of gold. 1t was one
Of his master efforts.
Miss Shaw's brief rejOinder
was clever, humorous and brilliant, as
everyone knew and expected it would
be, and at its close there was d.
versity of opinion as to which had got
the better of the other.
In the late John Esten Cookies de-
lightful war romance-"H Hammer and
Rapier'-Grant represents the ham,
mer and Lee the rapier. But in this
instance there was no hammering.
The weapons used by both speakers
were keen Damascus blades, tempered
by the acutest intellectually and
learning. Miss Shaw showed herself
to he the comely, kindly. queeniy,
penetrating Puritan of the Cape Cod
variety. DIR. Woods strengthened his
reputation Is generous. gallant and
Nirginian cavalier. The
debate was entirely harmonious and
altogether instructive and delightful.