The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-01
WOMEN TO ACT.
Women Of NewYOrk Organizing
Against Tammany.
Angry Because of the Defeat OF
Woman Suffrage.
TO GO INTO POLITICS
Whether They Have the Ballot
or Not.
TO GO INTO POLITICS

NEW YORK, Oct 1.=Tammany has got
a new enemy to fight this fall The wo-
mem of New York are aroused and are
organizing to fight the Tammany tiger
"The women whipped Breckinridge and
they can whip Tammany," is the war
cry. The women who are organizing
the crusade in the interest of better city
government are in daily conference and
have not yet sufficiently determined on
all the details of the warfare soon to be
made to give out their plans Besides,
the campaign of personal influence,
which will be carried with vigor
among their friends, thousand other
schemes of campaign are under consid-
Grafton.
Shall the women of New York organ
ize good government clubs4
Shall they carry on out-of-door
cart-tail campaign? Is there any reason
why they should not parade the streets
as the Tammany people do, and drum
corps of pretty girls have been suggested
as an attractive feature Of these demon
strations
1t is proposed to break all social bar
riers- The women of Murray Hill Will
invade Cherry Hill, and daughters Of
Fifth avenue and the tenement districts
will be invited to listen and advise with
suffrage movement has acted as an in
centive to the women to stir them to he
roic efforts to demonstrate that they can
be power for good in politics. The de-
feat of Tammany this year, they declare,
will do more good to accomplish woman
suffrage than twenty wears of agitation
before state Legislatures. In regard to
the uprising of the women, DR.. Park
hurst said today:
This is Just as much the women's
matter as the mems. They have come to
me in large numbers, and I am kept in
formed Of their organization and prog
ress. These women who are interested
themselves in the matter are not cranks,
although I know there are cranks among
men. These women who are preparing
to make a fight to purify our city are the
wives and mothers of New York, most of
whom never before took any part in pub
lie affairs
Elizabeth Stanton believes that the re-
generation and publication Of politics
are to be achieved through women She
says: The state of political affairs in
Wyoming is the best answer relative to
the effect of woman suffrage on the
purity of elections There, ever since
the women have voted which is a quar-
ter of a century, it has been impossible
to elect a man Of doubtful character. A
the primary election men say: We must
put up man Of moral character or the
women will not vote for him Where
woman has the most influence, there is
the best civilization. The right minded
men of this city are doing their utmost
to do away with corruption in politics.
All the Investigating committees prove
this, and yet they scOrn the greatest
power lying right at hand to help them,
the voice and influence of women. Such
cases as that of Breckenridge ought to
wake men up to realization Of what
women could do if they had the power
of the ballot"
Mrs. Parkhurst said: ssThere is GER
tainly a great work for our New York
OF n 10 n IL III vrb bafh her
it will be best to work collectively or in
divIdually l have not yet decided in my
mind. We must have the best men in
office. David B. Hill is not a good man,
nor pure man. His public career shows
that. Women defeated Breckiuridge;
they did a great work over in Brooklyn,
why can't thev do it here? Tammany is
corrupt, and Hill favors Tammany. For
this reason alone / think his election
should be opposed"
Mrs. Isabella Davis takes a deep inter
est in all that concerns the welfare of
women, secretary of the Kings
Daughters, and has been active in this
city She said she hoped to see women
take advan- age Of the present opportu-
nifty by holding meetings and arousing
enthusiasm. and then in working in their
homes and among their male acquaint-
ances. She said to a reporter
Il believe that enormous political
force would be developed which would
ments now in control An energetic
campaign would arrest general attention
and show that the moral wave was about
to make itself effective in the election "
Mrs Grannis is president of the ma
tional Christian league. She conferred
with many of her colleagues, and is con-
vinced that the time is ripe for women to
exert their power for the regeneration of
the city from vice and crime and to aid
in the publication of politics In reach
ing this conclusion she has been much
enco uraged by the defeat of Breckin-
ridge, in which she took an important
part.
It may not be generally known that
the women all over Breckinridge's dis
trict during the campaign were stirred
up and encouraged to work for his de-
feat by an active propaganda in this city.
From the Christian league for the pro
motion of social purity an enormous
quantity of campaign material was sent
to Kentucky. Mrs. Grannis conducted a
! large correspondence with ladies in diff
ferent parts of the south and in several
| instances was instrumental in securing
action by influential religious bodies
against the candidate who represented
| immortality and vice.
Choctavx Council in Session.