The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-02
WATERS ELOQUENCE.
It Was Turned Loose at the Suf-
frage Meeting.
CAPTAIN JOE BURSTS INTO POETRY.
The Name OF Overmy er Used 90 Fright
the ChIldren-1Ars. Chapman Gait
Speaks

the ChIldren-1Ars. Chapman Gait
Speaks
The original Captain Joseph @. Waters
and Mrs Carrie Lane Chapman Gait are
good attractions and in spite Of the storm
last evening between 400 and 500 people
assembled at Hamilton hall to hear them
speak in favor of suffrage.
The Morgan sisters were there and
furnished the music. DR. Eva Harding
presided and Rev. A s Embree made
the opening prayer, while the wind out
side came in at a window it brought in
with it and almost sent the people home
in a panic.
Mrs. Gait made the first speech, in
which she devoted most of her time to a
comparison Of the privileges accorded
the Sioux Indians by this governm ent
and those given the women, and the
claims the Indians and the women have
on the government
When Mrs. Gait concluded, Miss Nor
gan whistled a solo and WAS encored,
aud then Captain Joe Waters was intro
duced amid a burst of applause which
was almost continually repeated during
his address.
Captain Waters several times during
his address stopped and said: Il am not
in politics this year, and bv the Eternal.
! can say what please" In his speech
he said:
"Long centuries before any of Us we're
born, Influences, powerful as any orators
now, had taken the stump to defeat this
very amendment
In this campaign, distinguished gem
tleman, conspicuous by his open warfare,
has by his course attracted the attention
of the state, as the leader of the opposi-
ton to this movement. know him TO be
a brave, high minded, chivaIrous man,
and as able a speaker as there is on the
hastings. 1t is only q coincidence and
L n
something eternally opposite and fitting
for him to advocate in one speech a re-
stricted vote and unlimited liquor. When
the time comess hat you bring whisky
in and keep women out, it will be when
his Satanic majesty has got his requisi-
ton honored for all he wanted.
would not be in his place for the world.
There are lots of good things there is nc
necessity for a stumper to open his head
about There are lots of bad things he
ought not to say.
s.In his efforts to forge ahead of the pro-
hibition vote, he has attacked woman
suffrage There was no necessity for it.
The Democrat that votes for it will hes
itate before he puts a cross against his
name. When women come into possess
sion f.their own they will use this gen
tleman's name to conjure with.
A vicious youngster yelled aloud
Until his racket drew a crowd.
His mother with her form half bowed,
Bends lightly DER his cradle.
And then with shoe the boy she famed
Or dealt a stroke with angered hand.
That sounded Ike ladle-
They heard him blocks far up the street
As spank and slap p. she e did repeat
Her little blood relation.
But naught she did restored the peace:
The hoodlum rig with four police.
Came pell NELL from the station
The city marshal too. was there.
He'd push and shove. then curse andswear.
And say JDaL boy must have more air
And thus he tried to work
But still he rOared and made things hum.
Just like calf opes that come
Parading with a circus.
He kept it up without rest:
HIS mother offered him her breast,
0For collie cramps beneath his vest
And hoped thereby to still him:
1t looked if that sullen crowd
Would snake him out and kill him.
They brought him cakes, preserves and such
Re failed to eat, to smell or touch,
He broke the record squalIing-
Was pied where you must understand.
Would make, the lick appalling.
1.-The boyle man has come they cried;
The wolves will cal you, then they tried;
Nor could a soul convince him.
1hey sle ,e 1 on nm nm rs 1,ll dog PUP
And craunch his bones and mince him.
They tried the baby songs we know.
Illat mothers Groom so soft and low
When childhood skies were Ger us.
And here the lad renewed the din.
BY catching step and breaking IN,
With Gilmore's Anvil chorus
woman near was heard to shout.
She knew way to knock him out,
Dave OveTmyer's name would rOut,
This terrible infantum;
They wispered it. and To- the kid.
All scared to death. stepped short and hid
And ended here his tantrum,
@There has been no gift denied women
by the Almighty. There Is no phase of
life for which she is not equipped.
There is no law but what she can give
il the intelligent considerate judgment
the man can.
THE Lord has deluged women with
every noble character and after the
shower had passed took the sprinkling
pot and dampened some of the men with
a little of the same article.
@The adoption of this amendment is the
one thing needed to dome Kansas as a
woman's heaven, and as she started in
the garden Of Eden, so here she shall
end her days In the orchards Of Hesper-
ides.
A Rare bro