The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-15
STATE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
YOU ARE A LIAR,

That was very strong illustration,
not 10 say vivid realization, Of what
mothers on the political platform and
women at the hustings would be, and
afforded the eyes of the whole country,
by NIrs. Lease and Mrs. Diggs at Topeka
on Friday. Could Bishop Vincent after
all have been correct in his much criti-
ciZed declaration that women when like
environed are no better than men!
Whether true or not all must agree as to
the humiliation of the spectacle of two
Kansas women, who have become noted
only because of their extreme utter
ances, publicly villifying each other
before a mixed crowd of women and
men, politicians, strikers and Pops, by
passing the lie, Mrs. Lease, meanwhile,
Boosting the high esteem in which she
is held by the people of this state. This
Is purifying politics and elevating official
life with a vengeance.
This Lease woman, as political and
religious vane, seems to have been con-
structed wholly of hinges and eccentricS.
She veers and hops to the direction of
popular currents run counter or seem to
Unexpectedly cross, she simply turns
Bomersault. Starting out originally as
prohibitionist, she has successfully sup
ported every known party and organ
ization. Born, baptized and raised
Catholic, she cultivated the Methodists
and was finally immersed a Campbellite.
AS state official, under Pop appoint
ment, with a big salary, she, on the
occasion of the above unseemly quarrel
alluded TO, announces that having just
escaped the jaws Of death she had con-
secrated her life, henceforth, to the
cause of labor and prohibition.
Thus are women to purify the social
atmosphere and rescue the political
world from the depths into which thugs,
blackguards and the unreliable elements
have plunged it. Mrs. Diggs and Mrs.
Lease are so Interchangeable and con-
slant, SO exalted and free from every
thing suggestive of the vulgar bully and
staggering braggart thai publicly de-
nounce each other as liars.
But these women once admitted to
the ballot box and the prohibition law
will be enforced, it is pleaded. The only
places IN the state where the prohibitory
law Is not enforced is in the towns and
cities where the women already vote
In the country districts where the wo-
men do not vote that law is universally
enforced. Like every other plea for
women in politics, it is speoious senti-
ment and against reason and expert
ence,-as rotten and hypocritical as the
amenities existing between those two
great leading lights of womanly reform,
Mothers DIggs and Lease.
And So women once armed with the
ballot the interest of the home life is to
be thus conserved. Calm, pure and dig
nified women will decide between the
claims of opposing parties and cast her
ballot only for the good and the right.
She will never slop-over, but rising su-
-perior to III partisanShip and the indi-
vidual claims of candidates will execute
the will of the majority as the lightning's
course marks the electric finger of ON
impotence. After the husband and IA
Their have gone TO the scenes of their
daily toll the wife and daughter will not
like men, become excited, leave the
breakfast dishes unwashed and beds IN
made and rush out to adjust things by
calling some other inconsistent woman a
liar, get heads put on them, to meet the
men folk on their return TO dinner with
an eye IN mourning or nose out of
joint. Women are not so human as all
that as Diggs and Lease on occasion
most abundantly have demonstrated.