The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-27
Mr.. NATION FREE.
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young horse that was badly crippled.
She doctored it UP and traded it for
other horses and claimed them all al
though 1 fed and cared for them. Then
another time 1 had $500 in the bank
and she checked it out and bought pro-
perty here. She signed the checks 'Dav-
id Nation, by Carrie Nation l was in
the Territory all the time that she did
this
What else has she done?"
s'Well, it would be had to say. She
has called me a hypocrite, and-O,
couldn't say what all. She would call
me these names in the presence of call
ers, and say that she had to make
living"
Now, Mr.. Nation" interrupted Judge
Gillette, Il might not call bad what
you say is bad, SO tell me just what
she called you"
well, she called me a hell hound. a
hypocrite a pauper and a villain-that
last being a common name she had for
me-
when did the most of 1t begin?"
asked Mr.. Martin.
when L came back from the
Springs"
Did she ever call you down in the
pulpit or in public again?"
Yes; when she had her church trial,
I got up out of bed to go to help her,
or as the saying is, to pour oil on the
troubled waters When l got there she
said. David, sit down and shut your
mouth / did," and Mr.. Nation laugh
ed, nervously.
when did she first leave you?"
"It was in September, 1884,
Where did she go?''
ITO Wichita"
what did she do there?"
''She had some trouble in the Carey
saloon and got in Jail. Then she went
to Topeka. L went over and got her
out at Wichita and then came home"
What did she do in Topeka?"
''She got into trouble again.
What trouble?''
Has she ever been back here"
No"
Have you requested her to comet"
Yes, 1 begged her to come"
did you have any one to care for
you?"
Yes. when I went to see my brother
and my children
Where did you see her again?"
In Topeka"
what business was she engaged in?
''She was in Jail for smashing sa-
loons.''
How long was she imp
Il don't know. She was in jail in
Wichita from the last of December I'M
til the 18th of January"
After she got out of jail in Topeka,
did she go into business %
Yes; in the newspaper business with
a negro, Nick ChileS."
Did you go up there when she was
in the newspaper business?"
yes; I helped her get out the first
paper?"
did you pay out any money on it?''
Yes; 1 paid out $27 on the paper,
So for expressage and $1.S0 for stamps
and other things"
Did you pay out money for any
thing elSe?"
and I the room rent. I paid the room
rent a month in advance and she said
she paid the board, but 1 got a bill for
it when I was in Ohio just the same.
did you come homer?
Yes; but she staid there and said
that she was going to live there. She
registered as a voter"
did she write you any letters about
| coming back?"
Yes
Mr. Nation then succeeded in getting
| a number of newspaper interviews and
| a photograph Of Mrs. Marion in a bath
| ing costume before the court Mrs. Ma
| ton explained that only one-tenth OF
| the interviews were correct and that
| the photographer who took a snap shot
| at her bathing suit had promised to
| only take her from the waist up.
| Mrs. Nation had some neighbors tes-
| tify that she always treated her hus-
band in a manner worthy of imitation
| by all women who aspire to true and
noble wifehood, and in her own behalf
| told of the hard struggle she has had
/ for existence since she gave up the free
| and comfortable life of a widow to be-
| come the wife and slave of David Ma
| ton She told how she was forced to
| cultivate the first cotton crop raised or
| their Texas plantation, while David
| visited in town until it was ready te
| market, and then he pocketed the pro-
| ceedS.
| She told how she started in the hote
| business on three dollars borrowed
capital refused to eat pie because o.
| the expense and SubSiSted on the scraps
| left by the boarders and when fortune
| finally smiled upon her David stepped
in and took all the cash.
| Referring to more recent experiences
she told how Mr.. Nation undertook tt
assist her in the publication of the
| Smasher's Mail by writing editorials
| which she could not indorse, opened hel
| letters and extracted money for which
he gave no accounting; that she asked
him to draw up a contract for Nicl
Chiles to sign as the printer of thu
paper, and she afterward discovered
that it was an instrument making
Chiles her partner that it cost her VA
to get rid of the partner when she only
wanted a printer, intimating that ne
husband and Chiles We're in cahoots ant
| divided the Swag.
| In detailing her assets she said ne
| paper lacked S100' every month of pay
| ing expenses, and that she made it Vi
| on the lecture platform. In response t
| a question by the court, she said he
| crusade against the saloon was prompt
ed and directed by divine power an
| the reason she left her husband t.
| travel over the country was because sh
| had given him twenty-five of the bes
| years of her life and receiving so littl
| in return she had conSecrated the re
mainder of her days to God and pro
| posed to let David hustle for himself
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