The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-11

planet and put boys and girls in the same
family. When a man goes to the far
west he becomes semi civilized. Then
he sends for the women folks and gets
civilized again. Both elements are es-
sential. You men have run the nation a
good while and have been only partially
successful. The nation has been we'll
fathered, but it hasn't been enough moth
cred. You are confronted by conditions
you admit battle you. Better let us help
you out. We ask for the franchise not
because it would be nice to vote. We
don't care anything about that Our rea
sons are that the country needs all the
moral and common sense help it can
get"
There was a time when this country
was not fit to live in, and the atmosphere
was not tit to breathe. Finally the mon
sters of the deep left the continent and
gave way to more desirable settlem ent.
These reforms have continued up to the
present time, and equal suffrage is the
next in this line OF evolution"
Mrs. Diggs created some amusement
in describing the difference between her
self and Mrs. Johns. "Mrs Johns is the
sweet one" she said. "She is the win
ming one who does the pleading. have
another plan am the fierce one. l scare
people" The audience greatly enjoyed
being frightened by Little Mrs. Diggs.
MRS LEASE FOR CONGRESS.
What Mrs. Annie Diggs Thinks About
I:-She Talks About Ingalls,.
Mrs. Annie L. Diggs talked to JOUR-
NAL reporter last evening, and she says
she is going to stay in Kansas until
women are given the right to vote in all
elections. Il believe the amendment
will carry. II the parties declare I'M
qualitiedly for the measure we will have
Il much larger majority than if they do
not. As far the Populists con-
cerned 1 can say that have had assur-
ances from many influential Populists
that the plank will be put in their plat
form, but l know nothing about the Re-
! publicans.
ssWoman suffrage" remarked Mrs
Diggs. 'has been fairly and fully tested
! in Kansas. For seven years Kansas
women have had the municipal ballot.
The manner in which they have used
their political privileges and the effect
thereof have utterly demolished the old
stock of objections to woman'5 enfran-
chisement. Facts have met adverse
theories and shown them no quarter.
Senator Ingalls, croaked dismaily in pre-
suffrage days. Women, he said, will be
| jeered and jostled at the polls. Chivalry
will perish for want of exercise. -Whilom
polite gentlemen will sit dOggedly in
street cars with a hard, you women
may stand now-you-vote expression up
on their faces. Neglected babies,
forlorn papas with bottles of soothing
syrup. cold victuals, buttOnleSs trousers,
undarned socks, general wreckage of
home, universal nightmare and chaos
all these direful things did our states
man not then out of job foresee and
solemnly tell as a result of women's bal
loting. Unfulflled prophecy Dead
theory now, all this stuff. Women
voted. The rowdv. riotous voting pieces
became fit for civilized, self-respecting
men to approach The ''ffty-foot laws
forbade the briber and corrupter to
crowd the space where women went to
vote Men, especially candidates, arose
in street cars with much alacritv. and
with an I-wondsr- for VIII ON he wilI-vote
expression on their chivalric counten-