The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-14
HER LETTERS TELL
FOEMER WICHITA LADY DOES VAL
liant WORK FOR HKINLEY.

MISS Kuhn dopts the Plan Of Miss Estsus
Reel Of Wyoming. Who Was Elected To
once by Addressing Personal Note t.
| ala the Cowboys and Miners Asking
Their support and Inf,aence and Es-
closed Her Phots-Asss Kuhn Sent Kun
| dreds Of Letters showing the noble
Qualities of Mckinley 10 Voters.
The special correspondent 20 the Chi
ca8o Tribune from Masslion. O., sends
| that paper a column article eS well as
the picture OF a young lady who Is well
and favora5ly known an Wichita, she
having spend several weeks n This city.
the guest OF Mira Russell Harding.
Miss Kuhn was an enthusiastic work
er in the campaign and sent hundreds
OF letters IN advocacy Of the nomination
OF Major Mckinley.
The petticoat VIII be one OF the most
picturesque features in the presidential
campaign OF this year. Woman SUI
frage heretofore has been discussed as
a theory, but at last the whiligig OK
time has brought the three states N
which women many exercise the full
right OF suffrage in the doubtful col
un1r, so that mis- fall the common
wealths OF Wyoming, Utah and Colo
RADIO VIII occupy a position at once
unique and important In the public
mind These three states will cast tan
ELECTORAL votes, and both Of the great
paroles Will strain every nerve to see
caast those ten votes are cast properly.
These facts have been presented only
recently TO the attention Of Chairman
Mark Hanna OF the Republican nation
al committee. although long since Ia
miliar to & ahrewd young woman Of
Massillon. whose work for Major Nc
kinley has been Sucn that she has Civ
en- TO his cause, without his knowledge
and IN the most unSeltish manner, .
large part of her time and intelligence.
This young woman, VINO bids fair 10
become known before many months
pass as one OF the active political work.
ers OF the country, is Miss Minnie Kuhn
or Massillon, the daughter of DemS-
cratic parents, who long since fell VIC
Tins to the Ma jor'S eloQuence and DOW
ers or persuasion.
Miss Kuhn is one Of those typical
American girls who. without sacrific-
ing IN any degree the attractiveness OF
way in the world and left Massillon
some six or seven years ago to accept
the more generous remuneration which
Che states of the west give to their wo-
men teachers. She taught in Kansas,
Utah and Wyoming, spending the
greater part of her time in Wyoming,
and securing incidentally a large num-
Der or acquaintance in Colorado
While not interested in the suffrage
movement, she succeeded, nevertheless,
in meeting most OF the prominent men
and women of both parties In those To-
calitieS, and then determining to return
to Ohio, and finding that the congress
man for whom She had so long felt
keen admiration was in the thick of a
contest for a presidential: nominal ton,
she made UP her mind. without consult
ing him, to do what she could to secure
for him the delegates from the western
states.
She set about last winter to write per-
sonal letters 10 every man, woman, and
child whose acquaintance she could
claim, putting her views with such d.
rectneSS and force as to bring back
long and interesting responses and
pledges Of support from persons OF
great prominence In addition to this
labor she started a chain of letters.
Miss Kuhn realized that the ST. Louis |
contest marked not the end but only
the beginning OF the struggle, and with |
this in mind she has resumed her work |
aiming now, not merely to reach the |
persons of prominence, but the individ- |
ual voter, and especially the woman |
voter.
In this work she has the cordial CO. !
operation OF Miss ESteile Reel the |
state superintendent OF public in |
struction in Wyoming. Miss Reel evil |
IDENTIFY is such another woman as Miss |
Kuhn, since she was elected by an over |
whelming majority TO a state Office !
largely through her own efforts. 1t !
seems that Immediately after securing /
the nomination for the Office she now !
holds, she procured in every possible I
manner the addresses of the cowboys, I
miners and other voters OF Wyoming, /
and to each of these she sent a dainty |
personal note. asking for support, and /
inclosing her photograph Now the |
voting places in Wyoming are frequent /
ly fifty. and even 100 miles apart, and 4
to cast a vote sometimes occasions a /
journey of day or two through an IN /
broken wilderness But such was the 1
effect OF Miss Reels letters that an IN /
precedentedly large vote was turned in 1
from the mining and cattle raising re- !
giOns, and her election was assured trI- /
umphantly. ]
Miss Kuhn's peculiar strength les N i
the fact that she Is not identified With 1
the woman suffrage movement, and /
has no possible ambition 10 satisfy.
Major Mckinley probably knows moth
Ing Of her work. unless he has happen |
ed to see her name in the newspapers. /
She appeals TO the woman voters 10 /
support him. as IN supporting him they 4
support all that Is pure and lovely IN 4
American home lie. Incidentally she /
approves OF the tariff and other nation
al issues. but she believes that the wo-
man vote viii be most easily infiue need 1
by a thorough knowledge Of the slns-
phcity and dignity OF the life OF the Re /
publican candidate.
Mss KUN talks entsrtainiagiy OF her /
plans and views
"As you know" said she, CT want /
no advertisement or fame. I want 10 /
see Major Mckinley where he ought TO
be. at the head Of our nation, and as
you know I an deeply interested ia 1
what must be done 10 put him there. I 4