The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-09
SPEAKS HER MIND.
Miss Anthony FOreshadOWs Her
Speech Tonight.
She Wants the Men to Turn
Out in Force.
WHAT SHE WILL SHOW.
That a Glass Can't Influence a
Government
Unless That Glass Has a Voice
In Its Making.

Arrangements have been made for a
big suffrage demonstration at Hamilton
call tonight, when Miss Susan B. An
thony and Rev. Anna Shaw will be the
principal speakers.
Miss Anthony will tell what she thinks
about the defeat of suffrage by the Re-
publican convention.
IL am glad this rain came up," said
she to a JOURNAL reporter, for now the
men will have an opportunity to attend
our convention. The women won't take
all the ROOM"
Miss Anthony still feels keenly the de-
feat of the suffrage plank by the Repub-
licans sWhen Judge Peters made Esk-
ridge chairman of the committee on res
olutions' said she, t'that man who
fought the question most bitterly and
vilely twenty-seven years ago, and when
put upon that committee majority OF
the men who were of the same ilk as
Mr.. Eskridge, he deliberately made it
impossible for suffrage plank to be re-
ported, and when that report was pre-
sented as unanimous from the commit
tee, and when not u single one
of the nine hundred members on
the floor of the convention made pro-
test or proposed an additional resolution
it was clearly demonstrated that the reg
ular old Republican machine was again
in absolute control of the Republican
party of the state and that it had decided
and the decision had been obeyed. that
the Republican party should give neither
aid nor comfort to the work of carrying
the woman suffrage amendment.
''It is most astonishing when lead
ing Republicans say to me that if the
Populists should put a plank in their
platform which would allow the ques-
ton to be discussed in their papers and
in all their meetings as one of their par
ty principles, that this would cause
thousands of Republicans to vote against
the amendment.
"Of course there isn't a particle
of philosophy in such an asser-
ton, for it will not matter what
party ticket man may vote, if he is an
Intelligent believer in woman suffrage
he will so scratch his ticket as to vote for
the amendment.
'sThe need of a plank in the Republi-
can party was not to compel the mem
bers of that party who already believe
in suffrage to vote for it, but it was
to make it possible for the
merits of the question to be
discussed in every one of their political
meetings during the fall campaign, that
men of the party who are not believers
in suffrage might thereby be educated
to vote for the measure"
What will be the result of the action
of the conventionT"
"It will be to shut out all favora BILE
discussion of the amendment from
their papers and meetings while ut
at the same time it will not prevent the
enemies of suffrage from utterances
against it."
"Do you expect the Populists to adopt
a suffrage plank?"
at will be an unheard of thing if one
of the dominant parties does such a
thing-there has been no such action in
the history of the world.
cat the meeting tonight" continued
Miss Anthony, 81 am going TO show how,
politically, it is utterly impossible for a
party or a government itself to be con-
trolled or Influenced by the wish will
of any class of people who have no voice
in the making of the party or govern
ment"