The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-28
''YOUARE GUILTY."
Mothers Praying Bands APP
pears Before Gov. Stanley.
Charge Him With Responsible
ity For Joints and Vice.
MAKES A HOT REPLY.
Women at Once Assume Apollo
getic Attitude.
Tells Them to Go to Assistant
Attorney General.
MAKES A HOT REPLY.

A delegation from the Topeka Moth
ers' Praying band called upon Governor
Stanley today to demand why ne did
not close the joints, gambling dens and
disreputable places in Topeka. There
We're six women in the party The
| spokesman-or spokeswoman rather
was Mrs. R. H Hedges, and she was
accompanied by Mrs Henry Howard,
Miss Blanche Boles Mrs Goodwin, and
two others who would not give their
names.
The delegation came to demand a few
things of the governor, but they were
very mild in their actions, and when
they went away the most of them We're
apparently satisfied with their confer
ence.
They did not 60 at the governor
rough-shod like Mrs. Nation. Their
address to the governor was typewriter
and Mrs Hedges read it. 1t was ex-
tremely rabid in its language, put Mrs.
Hedges read it in SO low a tone that
most of its force as an oral communi-
cation was lost. 1t was as follows:
"AN APPEAL.
Governor Stanley:
do you know that the wholesale
! brewers and distillers are shipping car
! loads of liquors into Topeka, absolutely
free and that it is being hauled, public
| ly through the streets, in broad day
| light, to be sold in the 100 joints in the
/ city, running wide open, under your
| very nose? Do you know that the bowels
| of this city are being licensed by this
! fine system? Do you know that in the
! saloons and gambling hells of Topeka,
| kinetOscOpe slot machines, with the
/ most obscene, leWd and lasclV1ous NOV
! ing pictures are being operated by boys
| and old grey headed sinners2 And it
I is a fact that since you have been gov
ernor of this state. you have been the
attorney of one Of the worst JezebelS
! and law breakers in Kansas who is run
ming dens of vice, to ruin the girls
At this point Mrs Hedges turned 20
! NJ. N. Buffers pamphlet entitled, Ihe
/ Kansas Klondike and Leavenworth In
/ ferno" and read the following quota
ton from the St. Joseph News:
THE Wichita Eagle is rawhiding Gov
ernor Stanley. The governor is the at
| torney of a scarlet woman Of Wichita,
who is trying to block the wheels Of
progress in that city" The Kansas
/ City, Mo, Times quotes the Kansas
| (Wichita) COmmOner, tO-wit: Truly,
/ our great and pious governor is man
/ of varied parts and versatile talents
/ Scarcely had the holy calm Of the Sab
/ baths spiritual refreshment evaporated
/ mist and fog of machine politics than
/ the thrifty and astute governor plunged
| headlOng into the legal arena, as lord
| chief counselor for her majesty, Queen
| Dixie, Of Smoky Row, in an injunction
case. While the soiled queen of Wichita
streets most splendid palace of vice,
/ and soul damnation, has conferred sig
nal honor upon the peoples chief magis-
| trate by choosing him as chief cOun-
seIor. the chief magistrate has con
/ ferred equal honor on her royal person
/ age, in becoming her counselor 1t IS
| not every queen of the demi-monde that
| is so horored and fortunate as 70 have
| a most Christian governor as her coun-
! selOr. It will be particularly gratifying
| to the good people of Kansas to learn
Of this late prefermenL Of their chief
i executive-and of his Willingness to ac-
| cept the extended favor. We would
| suggest, henceforth. when the govern
I &c n 70 01C "a an =
! Christian association, or Sunday
school convention. the conventional
panegyric contain an allusion to the
1 governors new honor. ()"
Mrs. Hedges then returned to her
, typewriter manuscript and continued:
Explain these things before you ask
! the legislature to send you, as United
i States senator, to represent the father
hood and motherhood, the brotherhood
! and sisterhOOd the pure sons and
daughters in the American congress.
+ Let the ". c. T. Z. flood their legis-
/ lators with petitions against such mon
/ strOuS Misrepresentation, else close
/ their social purity department forever.
I Let the State Ten perance Union pro-
test nightly, or shut up its head
! quarters and throw the keys in the KaW
river. Also. the Ministerial Union, let
sthem turn their gospel guns on the chief
/ executive as we'll as poor deSpised
/ Parker. If the men can't and won't de-
I fend society the women will have to.
Even to abate the awful road houses,
! like the Irene Spendlove that are estab-
] fishing in Shawnee county. Neither
] Craddock nor Bailey can undo the wreck
and ruin. the disaster and disgrace of
your administration. You are not to be
+ mentioned in the same breath, with the
Hon. J. D. Bowersock, for the U. S.
+ senate. We ought to pay Attorney Cen
/ eral Goddard and District Judge Hazen
a visit, but you, W Eugene Stanley, are
/ guilty, more guilty, yea most guilty, OF
all If we organize a CSideOnS Three
,.1,@ad will 1n mn n
+ by the gallant Mcfarland and his thou
1 sand brave men of year ago who
marched up the hill and then marched
down again The women. may, with
/ the help of good men, redeem the city
/ at the ballot box, but they must reach
I and impress yourself and recreant state
+ officials by other means"
After she had finished reading the
| typewriter address Mrs. Hedges said.
in a low voice. tremulous with emotion
/ and with evident sincerity:
Governor. We have been praying for
you in this matter Things have come
! 10 an awful state right here in Topeka.
! We have held prayer meetings about it
and we have laid awake nights thinking
/ about it, and now we want to know
what you are going to do about it"
! Governor Stanley had listened atten-
/ lively to the reading of the appeal and
to what Mrs Hedges said, but the
! charges made against him evidently
aroused his wrath:
| Where did you get your information
I about my being an attorney for joint
/ lists and scarlet women" he asked alb
Nobody knew except that it was pub
] lished.
you have taken an irresponsible
/ newspaper report and made it the basis
| for a direct charge against me, when
| nor vehemently. why don't you find
/ out whether such things are true or not