The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-15

Him to the Rear-Mrs. Lease Also Talks
Ahout the World in GeneraI-She Has
an Invitation to Speak in Glasgow and
of Course if she Does She VIII show
London a Thing or Two-TaIks on Sew
eraI subjects.
Topeka, Kan, March 14.-That Mrs.
Lease is in earnest in her feelings Of
animosity towards Jerry Simpson is
shown in an interview appearing under
q Topeka date in the Kansas City Times
today Mrs. Lease said a number Of
things to the Times cores pondent while
he was in Wichita. The Times man
says:
Mrs. Mary Z. Lease will not engage
in the regular work OF the ministry at
present. This was decided upon last
week when she declined the pastorate
Of the'Central Christian church at WITCH
tia. 1T will take me year 10 fill my
engagements in the American lecture
field said she to the Times correspond
ent the other day, and then expect to
make a trip around the world. Kief
Hardie, the well known Scotland Social
ist, has invited me TO Glasgow. 1 have
accepted,
speech Of my foreign tour in that city.
] hope to remain abroad two years
Then 1 may settle down to preaching
Mrs. Lease prefers the Christian
church to any Of the other denomina-
lions for the principal reason that it
has 10 creed, that is to say, no man
made creed. I take the teachings OF
Christ as my creed she said, and the
church sustains me in ii. The great
principles Of right living and right do
ing which Christ taught are the same
today as they were 1900 years ago, but
their application is different. The
churches are going into a decline be-
cause thought has escaped from the
narrow confines Of man-made creeds to
soar in a higher purer atmosphere, and
because the average preacher is so hide
bound that his little soul cannot raise
10 the heavenly beauty and grandeur
Of ninteenth century Christianity. The
sitting air Of the dark ages sometimes
permeates my own church, broad as It
IS. Our commodious meeting house at
Wichita generally is half empty because
the people refuse to listen to the prosiac
nonsense of an orthodox clergyman.
THE LIVING OF A LIFE.
more and more it is dawning upon
rot the passive acceptance of mere
theological dogmas, but the living of a
life. 1t is not a dream, a far-away
earnestly wished-for condition; but a
living everyday reality, the solitary and
sublime functions of which alone make
men equal TO their duties and RESPONSE
bilities. 1t is not a complicated, tire
some network of creeds and isms that
needs must be contracted, or expended,
patched and repaired to suit the ever
varying moods of men; but a doctrine
SO simple, so wise and beneficient that
all may understand.
ct is a hopeful sign for the future
that man-made creeds and theological
rubbish are being banished to the world
garnet, where we sometimes pensively
gaze upon them with the same degree OF
sOlmenity and reverence that We bestow
upon the spinning wheel and distaff Of
a colonial grand-dame.'
THE conversation drifted from re-
ligion to politics, and Mrs. Lease de-
Clared that Colonel Marsh Murdoch was
her choice for governor. The reporter
suggested that Colonel Murdoch was
not member of the political organiza-
ton with which she affiliated. True,
said Mrs. Lease, I have been identified
with the Populists, but do not belong
10 that party. do not belong to any
party. 1 am a free lance in politics as
well as in religion. l am an Abraham
Lincoln Republican. That's the kind
of d Republican Colonel Murdoch is,
End that's why l am for him. With
Colonel Murdoch at the head of their
ticket, the Republicans could carry the
state this year, and if they give him the
nomination 1 will make campaign for
him
Against Harris?' asked the reporter.
Against anybody" Mrs. Lease re-
piled.
Mrs. Lease guessed that the Popu-
!. lists would nominate ex@Congressman
Harris for governor. He is the bestt
man in the party she said, and l would
support him as against any other cam
didate, except Murdoch. Harris simply
would wipe up the earth with Morrill,.
of course the Republicans would raise
the rebel yell about Harris, and that
Matchmaking damage suit brought
against him some time ago and dis
missed for consideration, would be re-
hashed by the newspapers. but the peo-
pie are fair, and would brush aside
these trifies and support the man for his
honesty of purpose, his excellence of
character and his broad intellectually
JERRY SHOULD BE SHELVED.
Mrs. Lease has no use for Jerry
Simpson. Jerry Simpson is ended,
she said. and it is time to put him on
the shelf with Lewelling and the gang
that disgraced Kansas in 1898 and 1894.
Jerry will bob up for something or other
this year but / think that there is
enough sense and decency in the Popu-
list party to defeat him.
Albert II. Horton is another of Mrs.
Leases Republican heroes. All, there
is a dear good man. she said. and the
legislature next winter ought 10 send
him TO the United States senate. And
what "A turning down that would be for
ingalls,! The iron would be in his soul
forever
Mrs. Lease IS a resubmssionists. I
am opposed to the saloon system she
said, and | believe the majority of the
people Of Kansas are also opposed to il,
hut a respectable minority call for
another vote on the prohibition ques-
ton. they ought 10 have il. | believe
In the initiative and referendum. The
prohibition question would be settled
until the people vote upon it again. The
pTohibitory law is now a farce. Tiger
Bill Campbell is telling around that
there are no saloons in Wichita. That
s Elaring falsehood TO bolster up Nor
rilIs administra ton. My husband,
who j q druggist and beer-drinkinS
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