The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-31
WATSON ON WOMAN'S RIGHTS
HOW THEY ARE MANIFESTED
IN COLORADO.
The Ladies Pull Out a Mans Whiskers and
Thereby Correct His Mistaken
Views

With unalloyed pleasure, we have
perused the account Of the recent
meeting Of the Pops in Colorado. This
meeting was held in Denver. last Sat-
urday. There was good attendance
and so far as we can learn nobody COM
planned that the meeting was dull.
There were many gentlemen Pops
present. Also many lady Pops. For
in Colorado, you know, the women
vote, and, in consequence, woman
is as big political factor as man.
Sometimes bigger, and louder,
At this meeting strained relations"
between the sexes, seemed to have ex.
listed from the jump. The ladies ac-
cused the gentlemen Of being hire.
lings Of corporations, liars, etc. Some
reference having been made to blush
ing, Mrs. e. w. Reed. according to the
reports, said that she had seen too
much Of politics ever to blush any
more.
A gentleman, named Frazier, who is
put down in the catalogue as boiler
inspector, remarked that the corpora
tions were more powerful than POpu-
list principles.
That's q lie" was the cheerfully
prompt spirit in which this statement
was met, and the boiler ins pector was
hustled TO the door. Even boiler in
spectors are no terror to lady Pops, in
Colorado.
very low opinion Of gentleman Pop
named Akers; and, at this stage Of
the proceedings, she asked Mr.. Akers
if it we're not time for him "to 90 out
and choke himself to DEATH"
Apparently it was not quite time,
for Mr.. Akers did not show any readi-
ness to squeeze off his wind. On the
contrary, he resented either the snb-
stance OF the ques tion, or the manner
in which it was put.
Mrs. Reed may not have been as
suave as she should have been in ask
ing that particular kind Of a question
At any rate, Mr.. Akers came back at
Mrs. Reed, and made some remark to
the effect that Mrs Reed had at
tempted to add something to her rep.
utation by street singing, and had not
done so.
What relevancy this allusion to
street singing had to the proposition
that Akers should take himself by the
throat and cut off the cutter air, we
could not see.
Nor could Mrs. Reed.
She lost her tenn per-what little was
left Of it-and she asked to know what
the other men meant by standing
around on their hind legs while wom-
en- were being insulted.
The men appealed tC-unchivalric
dolts-made no motion TO annihilate
Akers; and therefore. Mrs. Reed, ably
assisted by Miss Holmes, lit into the
beard and iccks Of Mir. Akcrs, and re-
lieved that citizen Of much Of his sur
plus hair.
After reading those eXllilirating de-
tails, we become more thoroughly sat-
isfied than ever that our party is not
dead. 1t is choch full Of life. All it
wants is elbow room.
What mattersit that Akers lost
few whiskers? He doubtless had
enough to spare some. At any rate
they will grow again. We feel that
the loss of few scraps Of beard and
tufts Of hair is not too great price to
pay for what we have learned. Es-
pecially when the beard and hair be-
longed to some other man. What we
have learned is that Populism is still
alive, and still worth fighting for; and
we rejoice accordingly.
We sympathiZe with Akers, and we
glory in the spunk OF the ladies.
II. e. W..