The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-01-30
NEAK BY HER|D|IY
Mrs. Nations Mother Died
in an Insane Asylum.
THOUGHT SHE WAS QUEEN
Family Had a Good Record in
Bluegrass Country

Topeka, Kan, Jan. z9.-Colonel Ben
Deering Of Missouri. formerly of Kent
lucky, a temperance worker. believes that
Mrs Nation is insane. Speaking Of her
yesterday. he said;
mrs Carrie Nation. nee Miss Carrie
Moore, is a blueIbooded Kentuckian. She
was born at the cid Moore homestead, on
fine farm, lying on the celebrated turn
pike which deads from Midway to Yer
saiIes, in Woodford county, Kentucky.
Her father was George Moore, who was
the son Of a well-to-do farmer of that
name, who was in his day a well known
Kentuckian. The Moore family have for
more than a century been leading and
very prominent people in the bluegrass
region Of old Kentucky They trace
their lineage back TO the Oldest and best
families of Virginia and have always been
regarded as among the blueblooded and
high-toned people of the old state. The
old Moore farm, where Carrie Moore was
born and partly reared, lies close to the
fine farm where the late General Abe Blu
ford. of ex-Confederate army fame,
lived. The near neighbors of the MOores
were such people as the family Of Major
Warren Wiley, the Blackburns, the Har-
pers and the Stouts. all celebrated Ken
lucky families. Doubtless in he girl
hoor Carrie Nation attended the district
school with such Senator Joe Blackburn,
General Burord, the Marshalls and others
who lived in the neighborhood, grew up
in the county and have become famous.
When Carrie Moore was about y years
of age her father moved to Jackson
county, AIisso0r, where he lived on a
farm and was well and favOrably known
He is buried at Bolton in Cass county,
just over the Jackson county line.
Mrs Nations mother was a Miss
Campbell Of Boyle county, and the daugh-
ter Of James Campbell. whose family was
also to the manor born'-old fashioned,
blueblooded Kentuod1ians. The Campbell
family is still well known and prominent
in central Kentucky. Mrs Moore was a
most excellent woman, but was afflicted
with Authorizations, which are character
istic Of the family from which she came.
She finally died in the insane asylum at
Nevada. No, a harmless Iunatic, possess
ed with the notion that she was a queen
zone Of Mrs Nations brothers, Wiley
Moore, Of the Kansas City stock yards,
was named for Major Warren Wiley Of
Kentucky. He is a staiwart, splendid
man, of the best reputation, and devoted
to his sister, now the most noted woman
Of Kansas. He was present at both of
the meetings in Topeka which she adj
dressed Sunday night lie spent the Sab
bath with her in Topeka, and returned to
Kansas City yesterday.
tsRFr- NT.+fo,fc r.oI Hefern1fnad vet
kindly disposition comes from the Moore
family. The Moores are courageous, in
tolligent and good, but absolutely fearless
and irresistible The tendency to haluci-
nation on the part of Mrs. Nation is de-
rived from the mothers side and is char
acterisuc While I have a profound ad-
mirauon for the apparent heroism and
devotion of Mrs. Nation to a cause which
has enlisted the best abilities and the
most heroic service of good men and wo-
men all over this country, yet candidly
think that she is possessed with the hal
lucinati0n that God has especially called
her to personally destroy saloons and
drinking plyaces and that she must do so.
That hallucmation is as strong as any
conviction could be, and she believes in
it to the extent that she viii die in theef-
fort to discharge what she regards as her
GOd-given duty That accounts for her
cool, fearless, matter-of-fact manner, and
her Indifference to all danger My fear
is that in following this hallucination she
viii meet violent death, or great bodily
harm. and I regret that her friends do not
recognize this danger and control tiff it
be possible to do so. She is a good wo-
man, and a person Of very kindly dispo-
sition She told me last night that she is
actuated in her work altogether by love
love for her fellow-beings and that she
would not harm anyone personally. She
showed her kindly disposition last night
when she turned over to the pastor Of
the church where she spoke first very
large collection which had been taken for
her benefit, saying to him that his church
needed the money and she would not
take it.
'She does not believe it Is her duty to
hurt anyone, but merely to destroy prop
erty used in liquor selling, as well as the
liquors. She also believes that she IS to
rebuke public officials for failure to exc
cute the lay against Joints and saloons.
and she does not hesitate TO do that. as
some Of the state officials learned yester-
day morning Her work should be con-
sidered kindly by all. however they may
condemn her methods She is pursuing
what she regards as a God-given duty.
albeit I regard it as an hallucnation OF
course she would feel offended to have It
thus Interpreted and many good people
VIII be quick to believe that il is duty
laid upon her by divine guidance. but
am constrained TO believe that Provi-
dauca may hiring good O11f Of her v-,~l-
but the work itself IS the suggestion of
an haliacinati0n. caused in a mind natu-
rally disposed to it, by circumstances
which make the destruction OF Joints and
saloons the most powerful suggestion
which could develop the latent inherited
tendency OF her mind
Usage CITY Wants the Orient.