The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12
WAS A BIG MEETING.
The SuFragists Held Another OF
Their Great Assemb1ages
At HAMILTON HALL LAST NIGHT
A Great Deal OF Advice and Some
Threats For the POpuItsts If They
Ignore Suffrage.

Threats For the ROpuA1Sc9 III Ihoy
Ignore suffrage.
About $500 people crowded into Ham
ilton hall last night and perspired and
famed, and then perspired some more,
while the Populist lights of the equal
suffrage movement expressed confidence
that their friends, the Populists, will not
forget them in their platform.
The people in the hall were many of
them strangers, and not all of them need
ed yellow badges to signify that they had
left the pillow down on the armslong
enough to respond to the call of Farmer
Breidenthal There were many home
people there.
The meeting was called by the
Woman's Progressive Political league of
Topeka to give the POpulist women of
Kansas a chance to put a few finishing
touches to their case before it goes to the
jury today.
Bina A. Otis, whose husband was in
congress, presided on the occasion, and
found it very hard to talk loud enough to
make everybody hear.
Mrs Carrie Lane Chapman Gait was
the principal speaker. She spoke here
two weeks ago. She 'has come back, y
as the popular song has it, and everybody
is glad she has.
Mrs Gait is a superb orator. Her Ian
guage and choice of words are models.
Among other things Mrs. Gait said the
resent the rank and file of the party.
at was packed convention from be-
ginning to end and the Populists will
drive the last nail in their coffin if they
follow the example of the Republicans"
This provoked the Ioudest applause of
the evening.
Mrs. Gait, while not an avowed Popu-
list, admitted that the women owe debt
OF gratitude to that party, especially in
Colorado. She called equal suffrage
taking a tuck out of the constitution"
which is getting too small for a growing
people.
Mrs. c. Ingersou Tucker of Cherry
vale, who looks like Mrs. Hillmon, said
that with equal suffrage this country
would be fit dwelling place for the un-
denied. She added that the fOrefathers
who tried to plant a free country here
had failed because the nation wasn't
built on the foundation of truth
Mrs Il. w. Crum of Burlingame, said
equal suffrage was natural growth and
could not be retarded. She said also
that the present unrest was Just as ma
turai as that baby should be cross when
teethlng. The women understand such
metaphors as this She concluded with
a poem something about those who
dared and tried"
Eva L Corning, the youngest cam
palgner, who Is also very good elocu-
ZIONIST said, "Their is no use to preach
the golden rule when one half of the hui
man race Is deprived of its rights.
women have passed the mile-post of
superstition and the world Ia on the
threshold Of an upheaval of thought" She
SAID regarding the question OF the sbad
women Vote, that if the men would look
AFTER the bad men vote the women would
take care of the bad women vote and not
nave so much to do, either.
Elizabeth WardalI of Dakota spoke on
women Va. the Sioux Indians"
Mrs A Z. Stryker, of Great Bend. who
wore swell dress that looked like one
OF W orth's, and is very pretty woman.
TAXED about political sense" She said
III there was any man in Kansas who
could tell what the Republican party
$1,000 Tor except irrigation she would
IKE 70 see him. She said the late con-
Ventlon was run by the "machine."
Emma rouder, president of the Usage
county Alliance, spoke on "The Office
Seeker" She is a comfortable Iooking
lady of middle age and talks slowly. She
described the Office seeker as a beprar
on the political highway.
MRS. Anna Champ, editor of the An
oerson county "Sun1ower," who is a very
bright little lady, made q good talk about
backbone"
rannle X Vickery, who is also pretty.
spoke briefly about sour Foremothers."
ana then announced a collection. during
winch trio composed of two young
~women and one old man sang. "Look
Vote" ~
Mrs- Annie Diggs was the last speaker.
5ne SAID, THE snubbing OF Mrs Laura
Sonna on this platform last week By the