The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-22
THE GREAT SUFFRAGE RATIFiCA,


An outdoor female suffrage meeting
was held in Garfield park, at Topeka
the past week. It proved an unilterest
ing affair of old chestnuts AID the like.
The speakers were principally anti
quated women and men who ought to
have been of the gentler sex. The
president of the W. c.. 7. L. was the
first speaker. She dwelt upon prohib.-
ton and how women, if allowed TO vote.
would enforce that law. IL she-her
name is Smith-if she knows even a
little, which she probably doesn't, she
ought to know that the prohibitory law
of Kansas is only violated in the towns
where women have a vote, and that il is
not violated il the country where the
women cannot vote. Another old wo-
man-in breeches-by the name of
Brown, declared that it was impossible,
under the laws Of heredity, for the poor
women slaves of this country TO
bring forth anything but slaves.
His mother evidently brought
forth something else-a fool.
His next wild gasp was that ''no manly
man cen come Of a degraded woman,
but he forgot TO add "but cr.nks are
liable to happen in any well regulated
famiiy-look at me-" Albert Griffin, the
ex-Republican treasurer of the Pop-wind
and Gulf Air Line railway, next shat
tered the gentle breezes and intensified
the aroma of the female environment by
denouncing Republicans who propose to
vote against female suffrage because
the Pop party is running it, but hes
didn't find any fault with the thousands
of male Pops who have been opposed to
female suffrage but because it Is their
platform swear that they VIII vote for
1t to man. Granny Griffin having
swIshed his supposititious skirts to the
other side of the stage was followed by
one Riley whose sex is not discoverable
from the preixei initials, the affixed
ones, if any, having been omitted He
is probably the long lost One-Eyed
Riley or an dit" sit" however. agreed
with Griffin. BIackman, who, by the
way, isn't man at all, hut woman, by
the name of Eva NJ, Pop police COM
missioner of Leavenworth-whose lead
ing paper gets a much needed
good dose Of practically female rule
from her. continuously-rounded up the
cackle by out-crowing all the real old
supposed ROSTERS on the political perch.
Eva struck out with, among other brainy
blows, that, under the present brute rule
Of this country, her esteemed friend,
John J.. Sullivan, should have about fiji
teen votes. For some reason Jim Cor
belts claims were ignored. But all
agreed that her reference to such mas
culine vIrility was an under-cut, straight
from the shoulder, Cor the effeminate
cOterie in trousers that adorned the
rostrum of the occasion.
Willis Gleed, the next and last, is
Topeka lawyer who bumps the beam at |
about one hundred and ten, avoirdupois, |
over half of which is claimed by his |
friends to he genuine gray matter, equal !
to any performance. As an evidence of |
how unreliable the praise OF partial |
friends may prove we have only to quote: |
Opposition to female suffrage is on no !
reason at all" 81 don't believe women |
were put here to keep man masculine;" |
rs my wife my equal or my INFERIOR |
etc. For her sake we should hope that |
she is not at least ais inferior-from the |
fact that she was not heard from on this |
outdoor effort we would conclude that |
she is probably very much his superior. |
Neither Lease or Diggs seem 10 have |
been present on the occasion of this sec
ond female forever ratification racket.
The last lie passed between these two
ideal worthless and fine specimens of |
women exalted into public life, on that
very spot, has not been settled, it is IN
1erstood. Mrs. or Miss DR.. Eva Hard
ing seeing that it was growing quite late
for their gentleman guests to be out in
the woods, comparatively alone, an
that the few who had remained
TO hear all the brilliant things of the
asst speaker, might probably better re-
ire to their homes, and Garfield park
vas left by the cranky crew to the bats,
owls and complaining night wind.