The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-11-24
BLIsTERs THEM ALL.
Helen n. Cougar Esxcoriates The Leading
Women OF Kansas

Helen n. Cougar Esxcoriates The Leading
Women Of Kansas
Mrs. Helen 81 Cougar has written a
letter to the Argentine "Republ.c' in
watch she says a great many vitriolic
things.
Sue opens the letter in this way: "Ihe
w res say woman suffrage defeated IN
Kansas This is q dis4race 10 the men
uf the state, if bIpeds that hold their
women politically inferior to Italian
dAgoas can he called men. I
am not surprised at the re-
suits. such was foregOne con
cluslon when the German league made
terms with the Republican machine Of
the state convention. Justice TO woman.
safety TO children and TO Kansas home
life were battered for saloon Doodle aud
anti prohibition vote The wordf Ike
publican is as synonymous with traitor
10 all that is honest and just in politics,
in the contest Of the present was the
word rebel in the late war OF the rebel
lion"
In the next paragraph she calls the
Republicans "copperhedds. and adds
that the women managers were at fault
Ars. Laura 81. Johns and Miss Susan B.
Anthony she roasss with these words:
~Mrs. Johns president Of the State
Suffrage association. remained president
Of the Women's Republican league.
Thus. instead of cutting loose from Re
publican alliance when she saw their re-
pudiatiOn Of the amendment 1t the be-
hest Of the German league. and fearless
ly exposing their rreAchery, by her silence
and cringinr she gave tacit consent
Again, Hiss Anthony's course. speaking
for party that was half hearted in its
espOusal of the amendment, and party
that had openly plotted 10 assist the An
archist rum powers Of the larger cities
TO annul the prohibitory law. drove many
Christian men to vote against tue amend
ment, for they doubted the utility Of
womans ballot in the hands of such
leaders"
She says that if the women had been
fearless for the right they would have
won "in spite Of the saloon Doodle
Then follows paragraph scoring WIS
Annie /. Diggs and Mrs. airy Elizaheth
Lease for their scene at a Topeka meet
ing
-.Just al this critical hour the unbe-
coming language used in public between
two women prominent in Populist poll
tics in Kansas, doubtless caused many
men TO vote against the amendment.
Woman suffrage was literally defeated in
the home of its friends"
She adds that in Kansas, as elsewhere,
"tariH dust was thrown il the faces Of
men partly drunk, that the gold and rum
power might pick their pockets. as it
Was IN Indiana. where the son of grand
pas hat was put upon a railroad train
from the tail end Of which he made
twenty Eht addresses in one day and
travelled 100 miles,
Alrs. Cougar closes with:
"In 80 reform political party Will
sweep the country. his party will stand
for bimetallism, prohibition. woman suf-
frage. free trade government ownership
Of railroads and teiegraphs, ard the
reclamation OF lands from alien and
corporate control. Ia this battle, moral
towards, both men aud women, Will be
relegaIed To the rear, aud political cor
ruptiOn Will ind no place with a people
dead ia earnest upon great issues that
involve the welfare Of 70 millions Of peO-
pie and the perpetuity Of Republican in
situations May God and honest men
and women hasten the day"