The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-20
MRS. COUGAR TALKS.
Says No Hope for Mckinley at Com
ing Election.

Kansas City, Aug. 20.-If Mckinley is
elected he will be a king, and will wear
a cute little golden crown with a Fill
Pine couchant and a standing army
rampant blazoned on the front. Mrs.
Helen NJ. Cougar. the noted Indiana
woman politician. who was here Sun
day, says so.
And you really think the country is
bordering on imperialism" she was
asked.
"Assuredly."
And who is to wear the crown?''
Mr.. Mckinley. Why, bless your life,
If he is reelected this fall, good-by to
Republican institutions forever and hail
Mckinley, president of the United
States and king of her colonies"
And, note this, it is remarkable that
Notwithstanding he has been before the
public continually for four years, Mr..
Bryan has not done a single thing that
would work against him
And viii elect him this fall. L
had hack driver tell me the other day
he had been a. Republican all his life,
but he intends to vote for Bryan this
year. In my county we had 800 gold
Democratic votes cast four years ago,
and this year they tell me every one
will be cast for Mr.. Bryan" and then
Mrs Cougar knew a preahcer who told
her twenty others would vote for Bryan.
He can have no hopes of carrying
the German vote because of the Boer
war, she SAID. lie mas dnldSOnlZeQ
every man on the civil service list, he
has lost the legal vote because of his
decision of the Porto Rican bill; the a.
p A. is against him because he leaned
TO the Catholic church, and the Catholic
church is against him because he let the
soldiers pilage the churches in the Phil
ippines- He has got the preachers
against him for allowing the army can
teen to stay, and he has has got the
brewers against him because he put a
war tax of 81 a barrel on beer.
And now that we have an army Of
100000 men, the foreigners, who left
home to escape the service, are all turn
ed against him.
ITO get a little nearer home, Mrs. Gou-
gar" was pleaded, will you kindly say
why it is that Bryan SO persistently
turns Kansas City down.
"Oh, you mean about his not coming
here next Thursday? Well, 1 will tell
you. He does not mean to turn the town
down. There is nothing in the story that
Topeka is afraid Kansas City would
steal her crowd, and for that reason ar
ranged it 50 he could not come here. 1
learned that better connections could be
made by way of AtchiSOn than by haV-
ing Bryan come to Kansas City. He is
coming to Kansas City some time during
the campaign. He told me so, but / can
not say the date, because it is not fixed
And Mrs. Cougar is coming to Kansas
City, and when she does come she will
be worth going to hear. She is an ex-
ceedingly affable woman, a delightful
talker, dresses in the quaintest old fash
ion with frocks like mother used to
wear and her silvery hair done up just
in the sweet old way. She says Mrs.
Belva Lockwood is living comfortably III
Washington, happily able to maintain a
nice home, but Mrs. J. Ellen Foster
ugh never did like that woman. I
do not know what they are going to do
with her this fall"
Mrs. Cougar has two nieces resident in
Kansas iCty, one OF them being with a
wholesale millinery firm here. The occa-
- fTF
these nieceS while en- route to Webb
CITY