Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-10-19
Overmyer tor Woman Suffrage.

him. The Populists are circulating
a Republican speech delivered by
him at Valley Falls in 1882, when
St. John and Click were the guber'
material candidates. The speech is
printed in both German and English
in a German paper at Kansas City
and is being scattered broadcast
among the Germans and Democrats.
The following are the extracts
which are supposed to influence the
German votes
"Mr. Click has always been a
passenger in the rear car OF Ameri'
can progress, looking out upon the
interesting landscape and never saw
anything until he had passed it. II
Nothing struck me with so much
righteousness as an invitation from
Democrats to Republicans to unite
with the Democratic party because
of corruption and fraud in the Re-
publican party. There were oc'
casionally seen spots upon the sun
and it's face was sometimes obscur.
ed by clouds of mist What then
should we do according 10 Demo.
cratic logic ?
"Why take a tallow candle in one
hand and go down the cellar to,
spend the rest of our days with the
rats, the bats and the, ,decayed veg
etables of history.
"To choose the Democratic party
in place of the Republican would be
like laying aside Remington rifle
and returning to the use of the old
Harrer's Ferry musket altered over
from revolutionary flint lock which
throws ball as big as cats head
and which had six weeks sickness
at one end and certain death at the
other.
"If any one really wished to be-
long to an intempepate party, there
might be some difference IF opinion
as to the exact policy to be pursued,
but it is certain that no proposition
could be presented mild enough to
suit the Democratic party.
GAS soon as whisky was touched
in any form, the nursing bottle was
snatched from the lips of Democracy.
Deprivation of whisky or beer might
cause some inconvenience to the
Republicans; to the Democrats it
meant starvation.
democratic orators claim that
prohibition has driven the German
Americans from our state and put a
stop to all further emigration for all
time to come. Those that have CIV
en- this matter some attention are
we'll aware that only the very lowest
class of Germans, such as are dis
honor to any country, are opposing
kd. enforcement Of the prohibition
avs. .,f
"Should this class Of people leave
the state, our people would only be
the gamers. The better class of
Germans, those that have labored III
the ranks of the Republican party
in the building up of our state, will
remain loyal to the party that has
by the enactment of wise and human
laws placed Kansas in the front rank
among the states of the union.
"In this connection let me refer to
another thing that will tend to a
greater extent than the prohibition
la WIS to secure us an honored name
in the civilized world: We have
many evils to contend with that
threaten to destroy our social fab
rio. One of the greatest of these
evils is drunkenness, which leads
many an unhappy creature to a pre-
mature grave.
"Women of Kansas, God has
given you grand opportunity to
demand equality and justice before.
the law. 1t is your right to demand
that you are permitted tn labor for
tile welfare ut Your stale.
al have always been in favor of
woman's suffrage simply because |
deem it. pnwise and unjust t., dis
franchise AM entire class Of human
beings. -, i 80
t "This question of female suffrage,
son which our platform is plain aud
outspoken, is one of the live ISSUES
of the time. 1t has ceased 10 be a
theory, for, wherever it has been
tried, it has proved a success.
al am aware of the existence OF
prejudices among a certain class
against female suffrage. but fail
to find a single well founded argu-
ment in opposition to it." a."
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