Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1901-01-25
KANSAS LEADS ALL STATES.

If the G.. A. X. brother Tor many |
years. He predominated so strongly |
there for some time after the civil war
that the very atmosphere, whether al
fected by the color of his uniform or
not, took on blue black appearance.
The soil partook of the same hue, and
in passing it may be mentioned that
the morals of the State did likewise.
These battlers for liberty or freedom,
fell in love with the negro during the
sixties. They had slept under the
same blanket with him, they had burn
ed barns and houses, and looted and
committed all kinds of outrages and
vandalism with him. They had tanked
him up with ''fghtin" liquor and
forced him to the front to be mangled
by Confederate batteries and moved
down by Confederate infantry, and he
had proven so plant tool and so
sweet scented bon bon to have about.
that they hunted for him to take him
to Kansas with them and found him.
They wanted them everywhere, IN
their parlors, drawing rooms, at table,
in schools and as husbands for their
daughters, and as wives for their sons.
They were just too sweet for any
thing, and when election day came
round they wanted them at the polls
of course. Kansas has not adopted
universal female suffrage, but she ave
women the right to vote in all munlc-
ipal and school elections, knowing OF
course that when ''Our mothers and
daughters voted they would elect
good, upright, honest, Christian men
and women, and then there would be
no crime, or if by accident there should
be an occasional crime committed,
these good men or women, for both
hold office out there, would promptly
legally punish the offender. Kansas is
also prohibition State, and every
officer is especially sworn to see that
this law is enforced. It was to see this
law enforced that particularly led to
the acknowledgements of women. But
what has been the experience OF our
Kansas brethren and sisters. They
have saloons as numerous there in
their large cities rs in any licensed
State. Only week ago Mrs. Nation
went into tho bar OF one Of the leading
hotels in one of the largest citieE Of the
State, and smashed mirrors and cut oil
paintings, and declared she was going
to continue her good work" This
reveals the fact that there are other
saloons with oil paintings and mirrors
The female suffrage which was to be
a boon has proven curse. The decent
women would not be wedged into the
crowds at the voting places. or suffer
the indignities incident to elections
generally, hence they stay at home
The bad white women of the
cities, assisted by the coon
women, as they are called oui
there, go to the polls in car
riages provided by the worst element
of Office seekers and have by their votes
turned the scale in behalf of that ele
ment until many of the laws and es
pecially the prohibition laws are al
dead as Julius Caesar. The female
suffrage has been failure in Kansas
but not the only failure. The negro
has always been against prohibition il
that State. But their great strength il
holding the State to the Republican
| National tisket caused them to be EN-
dured, though for good many years
the secret feeling in Kansas has beer
against them, and if it had been posi-
bic they would have been glad to b
rid of the negro entirely. But palitics
and the love of damning Missouri and
Texas and the south generally, made
them endure much from their colore6
protegees. 1t, however, is fact thai
their penitentiary is filled with them
and that in the proportion they beal
to the white people of Kansas theil
representation in the penitentiary il
very large. 1t was never dreamed
however, that with all Kansans were
enduring from the negro, by the negro
and with the negro, they would evel
"brOil one on toast" John Brown
the great apostle of negro emancipa
tion, having begun his warfare on that
soil. it was presumed that his "sweet
influence had so permeated that at
mosphere that no negro could commit
an outrage who had breathed it, and
certainly no outrage could be commit.
ed on one of them by those who had
rushed to that environment hugging
to his bosom the people whose only
distinction was their different colored
skin, and it was declared that the sto.
ries of wrongs by them coming from
the far south were lies of the first
water.
We wish we could print side by side
some of the editorials just printed in
Kansas on their own negro burning,
and on the one that occurred in Texas
few years ago. The contrast would
be marked. if not bewildering. Gov.
Stanley withdrew his reward in good
time. He seemed afraid the perpetra-
tors might be made known. They
were known, every one of them, but if
the truth were known the Governor
knew they were known, and be was
told to take down the reward, Kansas
is a State of States. 1t grows the
largest crops, some times. 1t has few
er cyclones than any State except
Kansas. Its wind storms blow every
where except over it's own plains. 1t
is the most healthful State, the most
pious State, the most law abiding
State, to hear the Kansan tell it, which
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