The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-02
Oh, GIMME A K-LUB.
Mrs. Mary Lease Has Her
Opportunity
To Pulverize a Lot of People
She Doesn't Like
IN A MATCHLESS WAY.
She TOSses Judge Webb Out OF
Her Path,
Tells Him He's Nothing But an
Anarchist.
HOUSEHOLDER INERT.
Leaves Him a Limp Lifeless
Mass, Figuratively.
Slaughter's Lewelling's Reputa-
tiOn With Ruthless Hand.
dwellings Reputa-
ton With Ruthless Hand.
He SOLD BAD BUTTER
To the Asylum Which Was
Perfectly Awful"
Mrs. Lease Couldn't Eat After
She Tasted 1t.

Mrs. Lease paid off few old scores
today in the Householder investigation.
She was given An opportunity to get even
with her old enemy, Senator Householder,
and she did not let the opportunity go by
unimproved.
Mrs. Lease appeared on the stand
dressed in a spring gown of the
latest style. The dress was of
black, trimmed elaborately with
jet and fitted perfectly. She wore
large black hat covered with plumes OF
the same color. She talked without the
least hesitation and was perfectly COM
posed.
She said, as she took her position on
the stand: 81 wish to object formally to
testifying in this investigation for the
reason that Mr. Householder is a private
citizen, and no mutilated record in the
governors Office nor forged commission
can make him a legal member of the
state board of charities"
Mr. Householder smiled a sickIy smile
and Judge Webb, his attorney. tried to
object but it was too late.
In reply to question by Mr. Bird Mrs.
Lease saiG: under the regime of Sena-
tor Householder as president of the state
board of charities great deal more time
was spent at the various state institutions
than was necessary, or had ever been
spent before and under his regime, the
welfare of the state and of the inmates
of the institutions was disregarded."
Mrs. Lease started to tell something
about the Osawatomie asylum, when
she was interrupted by an objection
from Judge Webb Her face
Judge Webb and said with marked
| deliberation: "You know Judge, and the
other members of the board will testify
that you came to the board room and ad-
vised us to carry axes and hatchets and
wedges and to use violence to put DR.,
Wentworth out of the OsawatOmie asy-
lum and get into the vaults and corri-
dors. That is the kind of anarchistic
doctrine you advocated" (Sensation.)
Judge Webb moved to strike this out
| but the committee overruled the motion.
In speaking of the conduct of the To-
peka asylum, Mr.. Bird asked if Mr..
Householder had upheld the Pack family.
Il would simply state that he sustained
them. When the matron (Mrs. Pack
abused poor Swede girl shamefully,
protested and said: Can we permit such
thing?' Mr.. Householder replied: 'Oh,
l guess it is all right"
Mrs. Lease said that four of the Pack
| family and their horse we're quartered at
] the asylum at the expense of the state
and the children had keys which admit
| ted them to any part of the building.
MIR. Householder played croquet a
great deal with the female employees at
| the asylum and he neglected the business
| of the state for that purpose. They
had trouble in having him leave
| playing to attend the sessions of the
board. Mrs French, one of the en-
ployes, had a key SO that she could pass
| through Mr.. Householder's room"
Mrs. Lease continued: sit was through
| Mr.. Householder's influence that the
Wilson family was kept quartered on
| the state. A good old Populist came to
me at Osawatomie and told me
| that the party was being injured
| by keeping nine of the Wilson family
on the payroll, protested to Mr.. House
holder, but it did no good 1 am salts
fed that this was done with the delibe-
rate intention of Bfr. Householder to find
places in the pay of the state for his
friends and henchmen."
The witness said that Mr. Householder
had suppressed the resignation of Mrs.
Pack, when if that document had been
placed before the board it would have
obviated all the trouble at the Topeka
| asylum
Mrs. Lease said that she had charged
Senator Householder with trying to col
| lect mileage from the state by schasing
the board around the state" and that he
had told her that he went to visit his
| brother in Indiana or Illinois while ne
was out buying cattle for the state.
Then the questioning led Mrs. Lease
to talk of Mr. Householder's associations
with the female employees of the state in
stitutions
81 heard complaint at Beloit," said
she, 'that Senator Householder sat up
with Miss Lemert. one of the
teachers, until 2 o'clock at night
and Mrs. Hahn, the superintendent, told
me that Miss Lemert had disobeyed
her orders about sitting up with Senator