The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-07-09
"EXAMlNER" ON SUFFRAGE
rs WOMAN WITH A CAPITAL wv"
FIT FOR POLITICS.
How IL Is Done In New Zealand-A Lady
Mayor who Turned On the Gas
and Snssed Back.


The Kansas opponents of woman's
suffrage have been a-whooping, and the
New York women seem to be more
DESTROYS of getting into politics than
into heaven; but there are certain signs
and omens Which should give these
protagonists OF woman as a ward striker
pause and pain. Is Woman, with a
capital w, really qualified to mold
down" primaries and to "hold up
saloun counters, TO bulldose conven-
tions, to make and smash states and to
hold positions of small trust and large
emolumentl Is women ready to ''do
politics. If not, what is all this fuss
about?
That she will be compelled to 'do pol
itics" once she gets to voting and aspir-
ing to hold office is beyond question.
People pirate OF her ennobling influence
and dream that once she appears at the
polls and caucuses and conventions, the
plug-uglies and general hard-scrabble
Will DcNOIlN NliNoNNihNiNo s'h' - 1siN'3i
without riot and without reproa,h
But over in New Zealand they have
recently had an example OF this emo
bling influence, and in New Zealand,
Whatever it may be elsewhere, this i..tu-
ence will not do to bet on.
The borough of Onehunga elected a
lady Mayor" and the Onehunga
borough Council held meeting at
which the lady Mayor presided. The
enrolling influence Immediately pro-
ceeded to get in its perfect work. This
work became so boisterous that the lady
Mayor felt impelled to order the room
cleared. The crowd wouldn't clear
under the ennobling influence. but
when the lady Mayor left the chair and
went down to act as lady chucker-out
the influence became more potent, and
she managed to eject the lingering
Chesterfields and kick out the last of The
Chevalier Bayards of Cnehunga.
Then one OF the Bayards, or possibly
Chesterfield, turned the gas off at the
anu Jllt -'tbD vi ""o '''NNA W
become the lady janitor, while the as
sembled Bayards and Chestertields were
SO ennobled as to say hee-haw and jeer
immoderately. The noise became so
disturbing that the lady Mayor went out
to EXCISE her ennobling influence ON it,
and incidentally to call Tor the police!
Meanwhile the Beau Brummels and
Ward McAllisters OF the Council fought
among themselves and permitted the
lady Mayor to do the chores.
After the lady Mayor had persuaded
the gas to return to work and had siCled
the police on the rip-roaring Bayards
and yawping Chesterfelds she returned
in triumph to the char. Councilman
jackson talked too much to suit her,
and instead of applying the ennobling
influence as "A gag she forgot herself
and applied the cloture. Even this did
not stay the wi Jacksonian tongue, so
the lady Mayor got right down and
'sassed back" shrilllng with all the
essentially feminine vehemence of q
fishwIfe.
Hold your tongue for goodness sake
They talk about "A woman's tongue, but
I never heard any one that talked like
your
This womanly outburst was cloturt
in itself and Councilman jackson
hushed his loud notes instanter. But
after the Council rose the crowd o
Bayards and Chesterfelds had more fun
at the expense of the enrolling intlu
ence, and the lady Mayor felt called
upon to remark from an upper win
dow:
YOU'RE disgrace to the town and t.
the mothers who bore you! So Their
nowr
As she left the building, full in thu
halo of her ennobing influence, she wa
hooted and yelled at, and at last ac
counts the principal effect OF the en-
trance of woman into politics in One
hunga was to increase the demand 10
cough syrup and other balms Tor tn
strained threats OF those braying Bay
ards and chortl ng Chesterfields.
1t might be different in California
though the recent experience of tn
lady Vice-President who attempted t
rule the Populist convention in Sacrf
mento does not much encourage tn
belief that the tyrant man Is any les
awful here than he is in far Onehungs
On that occasion the gentlemen c
the convention" SO harried and bate
and bothered that lady Vice Presider
that she was fain to call on the tyrar
meal and masculine Secretaries to sta
the tumult and give her ennobling il
huence half chance to exercise itsel
Taken for all in all, the experienC
of woman in politics seems entirely
favor the belief that the hand thu
rocks the cradle is good deal more al
to rule the world with slipper tina
with gavel.
PERSONAL.