The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-13

| The vote stood:
FOR Suffrage --- 5ot
Against ......-.-..--- ---r-.--.. @oS
1otaI QUO
They Were BreathIsss.
The most intense interest was shown
| while the vote was taken on the substi-
tuition of the minority report. People
who were adding the results as the votes
| were announced, almost held their breath
| as the columns moved along at almost
! even pace, the ayes just little ahead
after the middle of the list had been
! passed but the noes always dangerously
near. Judge Doster had to announce
Marion's vote against and for, much
against his wishes. Shawnee voted for,
4 1 against and the people cheered Be-
| fore the list had been completed it be-
| came evident that the amendment had
received a majority.
| "Its all over; it is carried" said ]. w.
Breidenthal, as he kept strict ac-
count of the vote. When it became
! evident that the amendment had carried,
and before the vote could be announced,
the convention jumped up and yelled.
| Canes were waved, hats thrown high in
! the air, men stood on chairs and howled
! frantically; the women on the platform
surged forward waving their handker-
| chiefs wildly and shouting at the top of
i their voices. The whole convention was
one deep resonating aIl-prevailing i'm
| personated voice. How they howled and
| stamped and waved canes and hats
though every one loved suffrage and
suffragists with all their hearts.
r. NJ. Chenault who has the body of an
OK with the brains of a snow bird climbed
up on the steps leading to the stage and
| said in his wild insane way 81 want to
state that l voted against tffe amend
ment" He was greeted only by plying
| jeers and didn't even SO much as make
ripple on the surging ocean of enthus-
| iasm.
Miss Shaw Comes Forward.
| al want Miss Shaw to come forward
and give that Populist whoop that she
promised she would last night" said a
delegate Miss Shaw came to the front
of the platform and said: "I- do not know
| any better whoop than that good old
tune "Praise God From Whom All Bless
| ings Flow" ''Sing," said Chairman
| DunsmOre.
The vast audience shook every parti-
| Gle of air in the big hall with the full
round notes of the long meter doxology.
''Let all the people cry Amen," said
AlOnzO Wardall, who was on the plat
| form. Hundreds of voices that haven't
pronounced the word for years joined in
| the great resOunding unanimous,
| "Amen' that filed the hall.
| People forgot everything in their Joy
until Chairman iDunsmore said, ''You are
not through with this thing. Ycu may
think you are, but you amt You've got
! to adopt your original resolution That
was nothing to the convention then and
| they passed the original motion unani-
! mously with whoop and shout.
A motion to adjourn to half past two
| was carried
Shaking Hands.
| Susan B. Anthony, Annie L. Diggs,
| Miss Shaw leaned over the front of the
| stage and shook every mans hand that
| passed along, and hundreds of brown
calloused hands were thrust up to give a
| grasp of hearty congratulation to those
! that were unable to crowd near enough to
the rostrum. Miss Anthony warmed to her
work and had to roll up her sleeves, but
| she didn't mind that for suffrage for which
| she had worked forty years and had won a
| glorious wonderful victory. Many said
as they grasped her hand, you're going
/ to be a Populist, now, amt your"
One of the most sensational incidents
! was that Laura NJ. Johns, the Republican
leader, seized a yellow Populist badge
| from a delegates breast and pinned it
| on her own.
| After Recess.
The delegates got back slowly from
! dinner. They needed relaxation from
! the great demonstration before dinner
! and they took it. The leading oppon-
ents of endorsing suffrage had spent
| their wrath and now appeared humble
| and submissive. Even Chairman Duns-
more, who is usually as prompt as the sun
itself, was a little late in getting in and
| it was 2:45 before he took off his heavy
| Rrlnc0 AlD0rL coat, ldlQ dSlQ0 his rattan
cane and called the house to order. Mr.
! Dunsmore is anxious that that the BUSH
ness of the convention be finished as
| soon as possible, for his shirt is fast
| showing the effects of hot weather and
| and will soon be anything but white.
State Di-pensxry Idea.
Anderson Shearer, the Scotch delegate
| of Marshall county, offered the following
| resolution:
Resolved, That we favor state man
| essary restrictions regarding its sale and
! entirely eliminating the element of
profit
| Beck, the colored delegate from Potta-
watomie, who fought SO hard against
woman suffrage this morning, moved
/ that it be laid on the table.
The motion was carried after the chair
had called for second VOTE in which
J the ayes left room for his previous
doubt
Ham1in Garland Speaks.
J The first address cf the afternoon was
the much looked for speech of Hamlin
Garland which was short but was ap-
! preciated:
~If you had not put that suffrage plank
! in your platform, would not have been
here this afternoon. (Cheers.] 1t would
I have taken all the heart out of LIE.
Il am glad that you are standing by
the great principle Of reform of equal
I rights to all.
SIn the city of Boston where live, il
! is almost impossible for one TO get any
idea of what you are doing out here in
/ Kansas because it is the most capitals
tic city in the. United States for as l say it
is the most Iandlorded city in the world.