The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-16
HIGH OLD TIME.
s'The Active Participation of
Women in Politics"
Results i'm ScandalOus Remarks
and Hair Pulling
AT A Pop CONVENTION
In DenYer-Epithets of "Liar"
Etc. Exchanged.
A Mrs. Reed Who Sang POliti-
cal Ditties
On the Streets Has Her Repu-
tatiOn Slurred.
SHE YANKS WHISPERS
Of the Man Who Said 1.-two
Men Pummel Faces.
New Developments of the We
man in Politics.

Denver, Colo, March 15.-The Populist
convention here Saturday was a perfect
wind storm of personal argument, the
women as badly mixed up in it as the
men. The convention broke in two and
adjourned in confusion.
woman in the hall started the trou-
BILE by the remark that she would not sit
in the same hall with a lot of corpora
ton tools meaning one of the delegates
present, who promptly arose and called
her a liar.
The woman's husband was on his feet
in second and the convention shouted
and urged the fighters on in Lay on,
Macduff' style.
Then Mrs. E. w. Reed raised a breeze
by stating that she had seen too much
Faulkner told what Waite had done for
his country-more than any other man,
she said; more than all those who were
owned by the corporations She Waxed
warm and more trouble followed. Miss
Holmes replied to an attack by Boiler
Inspector r. w. Frazier to the effect
that the corporations were of more
power than the Populist principles.
Then came the flood. Lie Lie
Its lie" was shouted from several
parts of the house, and men and women
were on their feet clamOring for recOg-
milton.
Frazier replied that anyone the shoe
/ fitted could wear it, and then withstoOd
the rush of the crowd toward the door,
through which he was making an en-
deaVOr to reach.
A little later a Mr.. Akers was politely
asked by Mrs. Reed if it wasn't time
he went out and choked himself" Ak
ers replied that Mrs Reeds reputation
had not been benefited by street sing
ing Miss Holmes and Mrs Reed made
a rush for Akers, and in the SQuabble
that followed an adjournment was ia
ken.
The row started over the following
resolution:
THAT we denounce the manner in
which McMurray was elected as a can
dfdate for mayor as un-Amerfcan, con-
trary to the spirit of Democracy and an
insult to the great voting population of
Denver for select and invited few to
meet and assume to- put up a set of can
didates for a whole community is an
outrage. We do not believe that putting
up candidates for office is a select SOcie-
ty function, and this attempt of a few
self-styled taxpayers to make a pink
tea affair of the rights of American cit
liens has our unqualified contempt"
w. c. Frazier offered an opposition to
the resolution. He objected to con-
demning Mayor McMurray for the Gus
sedness of other branches of the city
government. Mayor McMurray has
carried out the promises of the plat
form upon which he was nominated,
said Mr.. Frazier.
Tell us one reform he has favored,
tell US one, just tell us one" shouted
Miss Ida Holmes, as she rose and
pointed a finger at Mr.. Frazier.
He has antagonized the monopOlies,"
said Frazier
$50 has Tom Patterson" shouted Mrs.
Alice Faulkner.
81 have nothing to say about Tom
Patterson said Mr.. Frazier. He has
been called a wolf in sleeps clothing,
has been accused of wrecking the Pop
ulist party, but if he supports a man
like McMurray, who has stood by the
people and against the tramway and the
WaterWOrkS company, then | am in ia
Vor of Mr.. Patterson that far / blush
with shame TO this convention of
supposed reformers denOuncing a man
who has carried out, or tried to carry
out the very doctrine we espouse."
"McMurray was nominated two years
ago by the corporations said Reed,
land as soon as he was in office he be-
| trayed them. If he betrayed the corpo-
| rationS, he will betray us. 1t is alb
| surd for the middle of the road Popu-
| lists to- indorse anything that Patter-
son advocates. He is in the PopuIist
| party to wreck it, and everybody knows
| it. He got the Populists to vote for
| Henry NJ. Teller for United States sen
| ator and within go days Teller turned
around and organized a National Sill
yer Republican party and left US in the
lurch.'
Mrs. Alice Faulkner said:
Just as a matter of principle I will
| vote for George Graham or Sheeny Sam
| before I will support any man who is
Endorsed by Patterson. I know that
| McMurray will be supported and con-
| trOlled by corporations. Patterson has
ray camp for two years. Soon after the
| election two years ago he sent some of
| his ernissaries into the Women'S Pop
ulist club and tried to get US to pass
resolutions indorsing McMurray. I
| helped turn the McMurray scheme down
then, and l am here to do it again.
| Any man that is Endorsed by Patterson
has no business asking the votes of true
| blue Populists-"
| Mrs E W. Reed took advantage of
| the first lull in the proceedings to go
| after Mr.. Frazier. Il want to ask that
| man a question" she started, 'and
want to ask him to answer it if he can
do it without blushing too deeply for
| shame. Last fall that man Frazier got
| a horse and wagon and drove through
! the streets of Denver shouting for
! Waite and abusing Tom Patterson. I
| went with him and sang songs ON the
| streets and used my efforts TO help the
! cause in which he was apparently hon
| estly engaged at that time. do not
1 blush for my part in the campaign. I
| considered it my Christian duty to do
| as I did, and would do the same thing
1 again. But I do blush for that man
| when he comes into this hall and tries
| to get US to abandon our former posi-
| ton and help the men who fought US in
| the last fight. 1 ask him to tell now
| what influence has caused him to be-
| tray L dare him to answer truth
! fullyl''