The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-09
MISS ANTHONY HERE.
The Leader of the Sufragists
Visits Topeka Again.
Talks Interestingly About Gov.
MOrrill's Task
OF CLOSING JOINTS.
Also Discusses the Last Cam
paign in Kansas.
Tells About Her Recent Work
in California.

If anyone imagines that Susan B. An |
thony, the veteran suffrage worker, is |
breaking down he is very much mis- |
taken. She reached Topeka today on |
her way home from California and spent |
the day with Mrs T S. Lyon, at her
handsome residence near Washburn col |
lege. When a JOURNAL reporter called |
Miss Anthony was lounging on cush-
ioned seat in the hall and she scurrled
up the stairs to arrange her dress with
the agility of girl of fifteen.
When she reappeared her face wore
pleasant smile aud she opened up the
Conversation with her characteristic en-
thusiasm. We'll l see that you are hav-
Ing little furry of excitement in Kan
sas ever the temperance question" she
said. 'Don't you know that the law will
not be enforced. i have no faith in what
is being done. Gov. Morrill, can't enforce
the law. He has to carry out his con-
tract. He is not to blame. The trouble
is that he has made bad contract
EThe evening before Governor Morrill,
was nominated l called upon him at the
hotel and begged him not to surrender.
/ told him that if he demanded that
suffrage plank and a temperance plank
be put in the platform, they would be
ed by an Overwhelming majority
But he did. not believe me.
He said that Kansas must be redeemed
financially and that the party could not
drive away the German-American votes
by placing suffrage and prohibition
planks in the platform.
Il told the governor that such a course
would silence every friend of suffrage in
the party, while he would let loose all
a nd oil fO toll
they pleased = He said that he would
talk for suffrage, and that the other
speakers would do the same, and what
was the result? 1t was just as / pre-
dicted. Governor Morrill, never said
a,word on the subject in the campaign
but once, and that was at Fort Scott when
he had been requested to do so by the
leading suffragists in the county. Not
word did we get from any of the speak
ers or newspapers. They ignored us
just as had expected, and it is surpris-
ing that, the amendment got as many
votes as it did"
"DO you think, Miss Anthony, that
Governor Morrill, cannot close the sa-
loOns?"
sit is just as impossible for him to close
the saloons as IL was for Lewelling or
Humphrey. The people in the cities
can't touch them. It is the voters of the
state that control the temperance ques-
tion in the cities. The people of city
may elect a mayor and all the city
officers, but they are absolutely
powerless. The bargain was made by
Cy Leland with the liquor dealers in
Kansas City by which whisky was to be
allowed to pass through the state and be
taken off at the towns while the officers
close their eyes and pretend not to see.
All this is the work of Cy Leland and
the governor signed the contract when
he accepted the nomination. When the
people voted for it they should expect
nothing better
The governor has ordered the COM
missioners, to enforce the law at Wichita,
but what does that amount to? The
people can not do thing.
While the governor has made this
@purt of advertising he has
given quiet Instructions to the police
commissioners to go slow and not bear
down too hard.
81 never pitied anyone as l do Morrill,
He is personally in favor of closing the
saloons, gam bling dens and disorderly
houses, but he tied his hands and feet
when he accepted the nomination on
such cowardly platform"
you know the saloons have been
closed in Atchison?"
Eyes" responded Miss Anthony. "Thev
have been closed for a little while, but
no one D6lleVsS tney Will be closed per
manently. just so long as women are
disftAnchised the parties will be divided
up and the condition will be as it is now.
Don't you understand how it is?" and
Miss Anthony raised her fore
finger significantly. "The Republi.
can party has been divided
When they were united they
had things their own way, bnt thev sep-
Rrated and the Peoples Party was or
ganized. We will say that made two par
ties, with 1o0. 900 votes, in round numbers.
in each party. Now there is another
party, the Democratic, with 10000 vo-
ters, and the party that wins must get
the Democratic vote. As long as they
have to depend upon that vote the state
can never be redeemed morally. The Re
publican party threw overheard two of
its great principles for the sake of get
ting that vote in the last election. Oh I
can never forgive the Republicans OF
kansas" said Miss Anthony, shaking her
head determinedIy. They have treated
the women shamefully."
"1ou would forgive them if thev took
up the suffrage question and gave the
women suffrage now?"
sit will not be this generation. I can
not forgive this generation which has
put its heel on the necks of the women
of Kansas. Every principle of Justice
demanded that woman should be en-.
franchised. The party we'll deserves tc
die which votes to keep woman in subiu
CATION, and it will die. After ali n,
heroism of the women of Kansas. that Is
how they are treated. There are M
nObler women than your women in the
world, and yet they are kept in subiec
eton to the lowest element in the stato