The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-09

Speaking of an interviewer in st. Louis,
who said ''her eyes are just as bright
as ever" she said: 'Pshaw, that is all
nonsense, they never were brig hts"
but, nevertheless, Miss Anlhony's in
tellectual face is Illuminated by express
siye orbs which brighten constantly as
she talks. She still wears her hair
brushed neatly back from her forehead
and gathered IN rolls behind her ears in
the fashion of twenty years ago. Her
voice is strong but pleasing, and she
speaks with emphasis, using her hands
IrCC.y Tor gesturing even in common con-
versation.
'.The sole aim of the woman suffrag-
lists is to obtain the constitutional right
to VOTE They are not Democrats, he
publicans, Populists or ProhobitionisIs."
This is the fundamental principle of
the present woInan's suffrage campaign
in Kansas as enunciated by Susan B. An
thony this afternoon to a STATE JOURNAL
reporter.
ssThe best interests of woman suf-
frage demand that they should work not
as Republicans or Democrats or Popu-
lists, but as suffragists.
Paul said L know nothing but Christ
and him crucitied' and it must be the
same with woman, she must know only
wonaan suffrage.
"Many party leaders have said let US
submit the question at the ballot box but
that is just what we don't want. Don't
you see that if neither party has
a plank in their platform that
will silence their stump speakers
on the question. We don't expect any
thing from the Democrats, they have al
ways fought us, but we will look after
the leaders in the two dominant parties
in Kansas-Republican and Populists.
Want Rank and File.
1--WE do not get the rank and file Of the
voters out to our meetings. They think
women are sentimental, that their opin-
their time when they listen to the
women. The most intellectual men
and women do attend our meet
ings-we have stirred up the
cream SO to speak, but now we
want to get to the common voter and
we cannot reach him unless there are
planks in the party platforms. Such
plank will silence our enemies and loosen
the tongues of our friends. Our enemies
will not dare to oppose the measure if it
is a part of their platform and our
friends will be given full rein in our
support
seThat is what I am here for" continued
Miss Anthony, 'and the adoption of such
planks is what | hope to accomplish.
We will hold a hundred meet
ings in the state and next week we begin
with the five to be held in the northern
Leavenworth where we held two mass
meetings and l have never seen the peo-
pie of Leavenworth so stirred. The
meetings were remarkable for the large
noted of intelligent men who attended
them.
"The prospect of the emancipation of
woman was never as bright as today"
said Miss Anthony. primarily, | want
to say that the object of our movement
is not a reversal of the relations existing
between the sexes, but only radical re-
vision of them," she continued. II want
to elevate the home by making the wife
a full partner in the establishment in
stead of the slave and vassal that she
now is. Under the present conditions
women marry for a livelihood The man
who gets a wife because the poor thing
needs somebody to support her certainly
ought not to feel that he has any of the
element of a Don Juan in his compost
tion- But liberate woman, give her the
same opportunity man to have her
opinion counted, and see how quick the
law of natural selection will assert itself
and the divorce mills will go out of bIsi-
ness.
Must Combat Prejudfce.
81 have had to combs the strongest
prejudice of our civilization in my wo-