The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-15

A woman SuffragiSt writer by the name
of Krout, in the Denver Times, of last
Sunday. criticises and answers at length
some late screeds of the Eagle as follows:
1t is something peculiar in the records
of ORTHODOXY. that the Wichita Eagle
should be edited by u rooster. The state
ment to this effect is not the invention
of malignant enemy. 1t Is the confess
sion of the bird himself 1T is twenty
seven years ago. he asseverates shrilly,
giving his wings an emphatic flap and
stamping the ground with his horny feet,
that Kansas took her first whirl in
Campaign with the growing hen crowd.
The writer of these feeble lines was in it,
but strictly in the roll of a rooster.
The educated pig, as a product of mod
ern culture has been familiar to the pa
irons of migratory sideshows. But the
rooster trained to hold a pen in his claw,
show some command of articulate speech
-incoherent and imperfect though it be
is a rara avis indeed.
The eagle-rooster, to adopt the ny
phenated style now popular in the most
advanced Journalism, crows wildly and
jubilantly, as may be inferred from the
above over the recent defeat OF woman
suffrage in Kansas. His clarion note
rings out to salute, not the rising sun,
but a declining orb. quenched by the
brief darkness Of a night that must ult-
mately pass The approach of the new
dawn is destined to find the eagle-rooster
either superanuated or dead on his perch.
But for such wise interventions of provi-
dence those that crow not wisely but too
much would embarrass and disconcert
hot
and clearer intelligence, destined. in ac-
cordance with the law Of the survival Of
the fittest. to succeed the common barn
yard breed.
From his lofty and airy point Of vantage
the eagle-rooster proclaims. in true Co
chin-China vernacuiar, that woman suf-
frage is dead in Kansas. and that such
women who still have an unnatural de-
sire TO vote must move to Utah or Colo
RADIO.
one assertion is that in Utah half
dozen women are content 10 put up with
one man between them so shat they can
have the privilege of knocking hin. out At
the polls" Now, were he real man, and
not a rooster. it might be worth while To
direct the writer's attention to a slight
error in his English. between being
used by the best speakers and writers
where two only are implied. Among
is the word which the eagle-rooster should
have employed. But slip of this sort is
q mere trjfe-one which human being.
as well as an unframed fowl. might easily
make. From his Wichita perch. turning
his eagle-roosteT eye TO the wide and
glorious West. he has discovered faint.
indeterminate figures. dwarfted by the i'm
mense distance. moving along the dim
horizon. He looks. blinks. ponders. They
are female suffragists. clad in divided
skirts. mounted on burros or bronchoS-
using the vitiated spelling. for which
Frederick Remington is responsible. Per
ceiving this bizarre procession. which he
can barely distinguish n that distance.
he betrays the real animus Of his hatred
for the ladies In divided skirts, mounted
on bronchoS and burros. The very head
and front of their offending is that they
defeated Wolcctt. 4 virile. manly man,
and elected old Teller. the lachrymose
granny. 20 the United States senate
The Wichita eagle-rooster never made
q truer statement. They certainly did do
this-Jhose ladies in divided skirts mount
ed on burros. and they were ably assisted
by some thousands more. who went to the
polls on foot. in ordinary walking dress.
with stIll others who were driven in their
own carriages.
From the same lofty Wichita perch the
eagle-rooster has seen 4 good deal more
than the peaceable and lawabiding process
sion that has so aroused his chickenly
ire The last spectacle is bad--very bad
indeed. He has looked again and dis
covered that the women OF the tender
loin and other Ioin districts of Denver run
the politics of Colorado. Were he ra-