The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-14
PAPA TOO OLD.
why David Nation Did Not Go
With His Wife.
Husband of Joint Smasher Is
"Real Mad
HE HAS BEEN IGNORED.
Needed Some One to Run His
House So He Married.
Admits That His Wife Has
Stern" Qualities.
lie HAS BEEN IGNORED,

The following interview with David
Nation. husband Of Mrs. Carrie Nation.
appeared in New York World under a
Wichita date:
When Mrs Nation was in Topeka last
week David, the husband, went there to
advise her. But she Sought other ad-
visers and made him stay in the roora
and answer her correspondence. She al
so gave him the cold shoulder when she
decided to go east.
you are too old. papa, to take this
trip" he. says she told him. David is 20
years of age.
As a further humiliation Mrs Nation
called David to the stage during a wo-
mans meeting and introduced him as
the man who was her husband. She ask
ed him to make a speech, and just as he
was getting warmed up to his subject
she called aloud:
Now, papa. you had better quit and
run for the train I want you to go
back home and take care of the place
All these things have stirred Mrs. Ma
tion's husband to a high pitch of rage.
His hands were clenched and his voice
trembled as ne talked with a cores
pondent today about his wife.
ADMITS SHE HAS STERN QUAIL
TIES
IT married this woman because 1 need
cd some one to run my house. said Mr..
Nation she showed to me that she had
stern qualities and could manage things
carefully and with economy We went
to Texas and set up in business. In a
short time accumulated 5000, 600.
It attribute my financial success large
ly to her. But she is so hard to manage
when she wants to do anythingi Once in
Texas she started out on saloon cru
Sades, and I told her to stay at home
She gave me a piece of her mind and I
got even with her. -
Things became uncomfortable in Tex
as about this time and the Nations came
to Medicine Lodge. Kan.
In Medicine Lodge Carrie started on
her rampageS again." continued the old
man. What made me angry was that
she kept telling me the reason she was
smashing saloons WAS because her 1irSt
husband died OF drink and she feared l
would do the same. Size has a warm
spot in her heart for little children and
we raised several 81 phans.
WELL, LET JIEP 40 ON SMASH
IN(S.'
well, when I saw that she was de-
termined to keep up her fight on whisky
let her go on and decided I would have
nothing to do with it. / knew the law
well enough and felt sure that they could
not punish her for 1t. So as long as it
pleased her so well to go out saloon
smashing I never said any more"
Mr.. Nation then related how his wife
used to get up in the night and pray for
the destruction of saloons, and every
time a tornado came along she would go
into the back YARD and pray that 1t
would clean out every saloon in Medicine
Lodge.
AT times I think she is daft about
this saloon smashing business" Nation
went on. She will fast for days, until
I have to make her eat or she will die.
She claims to have visions of the Lord,
and lots of times I have arrived home to
find ner talking with an unseen being,
who she claimed was Christ. I laughed
at her for this absurdity, but she as
sured me that it was true.
AND THE LORD DID HEAL HER
when she smashed the saloons at
Kiowa she came home all covered with
blood, and I thought she had been shot,
but she had only cut her hands on bro
ken bottles. I wanted to send for the
doctor, but she said the Lord would heal