The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-10

domestic life will be like dogs and cats.
CThis was said without any reference to
Mrs. Catt)
"As one of the majority you are well
coined without any reservation, and our
hearts and souls go with it We intend
to permit you to vote, and blush to use
the word permit 1t is said that the
fewer privileges you have the more
chivalrous treatment you receive. The
squaWs receive great deal OF this Klno
of chivalry. The men have been rum
ming the government for a long time now
and can't say that our success has been
so conspicuous that we can afford to put
on any. airs"
Miss Anthony Speaks.
The principal speaker of the evening,
duced by Mrs. Johns. Miss Anthony
was greeted with prolonged applause.
She looks like the old fashioned round
framed pictures at home, and her speak
ing is rather eccentric She is not elo-
Quent like Mrs. Lease or emotional like
Clara Morris. She made simply what
every body expected of her, straight
forward talk full of oddities and strange
conceits. She said in part: 81 am glad
Topeka extended a welcome from both
branches of the human family. Glad of
it. l likeit- 1 am glad a majority is with
US. Delighted.
kansas lost her chance to be the ban
ner state of the union and of the world
in this reform by not passing the amend
ment when we first asked for it in 1867.
1t was lost that year through political
cOwardice. / mean it. Political cow
ardice."
Miss Anthony scored the Republicans
for being neutral on this subject, and
said that while the Democrats openly
opposed them they didn't expect any
thing better of them. She scored Ed
itor Eskridge of the Emporia Republi-
for "a
said that his daughter was a reporter on
his paper, and if she could report she is
surely able to vote.
81 am not Republican. 1 am not
Peoples party man. am not for any
party and will not wave my handker
until they make campaign on our
lines. Then I'll tell you how l will
work.
Il have received letter from a Popu-
list who wishes to have me understand
that he is in favor of equal suffrage, but
does not wish to have the plank favOring
it in the platform of his party. I have
another letter from a prominent Repub-
lican to the same effect I tell you
friends, that the Republican, Democratic
and Populist parties of the state of Kan
sas will not fail to have plank in their
platform in favor of woman suffrage
because they have not been asked to do
So
eff we fail to make this success in
this state this fall, you will be RESPONSE
BILE for the most terrible setback that we
have ever had We have had enough of
to make US example for the cause in
n eW York. In our state as many Demo-
Gratis are in favor of woman suffrage
Repu blicans. We have kept things more
evenly balanced there. What will they
say if Kansas after trying equal suffrage
AnfranGhlSA
wholly?"
Mrs. Chapman Gait.
Mrs. Carrie Champman Gait, of New
York.. was the next speaker and she
made a most favorable impression on
the hearers. There is nothing masculine
in her appearance, but on the contrary
she was decidedly pretty, which with a
musical voice, were two charming points
in her favor. Mrs. Gait in referring to
the right to vote did not refer to the
franchise" or Suffrage" but used a
little term all of her own; the electoral
urn" She said that thousands of poor
girls toiled in the great sweating" shops
in manufacturing towns. Their only re-
lief is marriage.
women are getting pretty indepen-
dent in such things" the speaker said,
and thousand dollar woman thinks
for good while before marrying a ten
cent man." Mrs. Gait said that for
every fallen woman in the United
States tire are twelve fallen men,
and that while woman may have brought |
sin into the world it didn't take Adam
ong to catch up. She called attention
% the fact that the women of Boston own
81 90, 100000 worth of property, and in |
Brooklyn $113,OOO.OOO.
SsThe great question before the people |
If Kansas is not whether the Republi- |
cans shall rid the state of Populists, or |
he POpulists rid the state of Republic |
cans, but whether one half of the people |
If the state shall be given their rights"
The speaker called attention to the |
act that the philanthropic associations
ire nearly all managed by women. Gin /
me city," she said, ''there are twenty |
voman's organizations for the public |
rood and but one of men and its mem
)ers are limited to nine-it is base ball l
.lub.'' She spoke of the work of the Red
Cross, w. c. I. u, Kings Daughters, and |
'ther organizations through which wo-
men are accomplishing much good. /
Now all those societies have been
ilenced in our government" she
continued, sand the members are refused
he right of franchise, but you say to all
men, no matter how low they stand in
ne scale of humanity, Come up to the
political urn and deposit your ballot
You say that taxation without repre-
entation is tyranny, but you keep that
principle only for fourth of July occa-
ions. You disbar women from voting,
10 matter how much property she has,
'ut you invite the tramp in the street to
ONE up and express himself at the |
,olls. When the women wealth produc-
rs and wage-earners ask for a voice in
ur government, you say go down into
be highways and byways and find YOU !
man and marry him that he may vote
or you But then there are not enough
aen to go around