The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-15
H0CH WAS LUCKY.
II Mrs. NIcHenry Hadn't Been Locked
Up He'd Have Lost.

It's up to the state legislators to
keep in the straight and narrow path
from now on, for Mrs. Myra McHenry,
| erstwhiIe of Wichita, is on their trail.
From curbstone and corner she pro-
| poses to, tell the people of Topeka, and
those of the state as well, who are
now Topeka's guests, just what she
thinks of certain members of legis-
| lature and of the plans she thinks they
have to pervert the morals of the peo-
| pie of the state. AS soon as she can
| find a shortcOming in any legislator,
according to her standards, she is go
| ing to get busy and tell about it to all
who will listen. She expects that her
| such trivial charge as blocking the
| public highway, but an arrest is no
novelty to her. She is used to them.
In her career, sincea' she emulated in
a way the queen of the Ratchet, Carrie
| Nation, she has been arrested and in
| carcerated in Jail on twenty-five differ
ent occasions. She declares that all OF
these arrests were illegal but sort of
glories in them for they seem to throw
the halo of a martyr around her sill
vered head, and then as she says ev-
cry arrest has helped along the causes
she is interested in. IN.
Mrs. McHenry arrived in town late
on Saturday night but did not get par
ticularly active until today She sig
nalized her appearance on legislative
levels in the, state house this morning
by reading a severe lecture to the
young woman who attends to the CT
gar stand just outside, the house OF
representative hall. She was not very
the young woman all sorts of names
for engaging in such a "nefarious''
trade. After exhausting herself for
want of breath Mrs. McHenry sought
pastures new.
Mrs McHenry says she is here
watching the legislature in the inter-
ests of the w. c. T. u. She has an
idea that a concerted effort is to be
made to put some sort of a resubmis-
sion proposition through the legisla-
ture and she proposes to fight it tooth
and nail. She believes that w. L.
Cunningham of Gowley county, the
speaker pro tenn of the house, and G.
L. Davidson, a member of the house
from Sedgwick county, are behind this
resubmission proposition and she
proposes to devote particular atten-
ton to them. If half the things she
says about these men is true they must
be terrible creatures.
She also proposes, to lobby through
a bill which has been proposed by Mrs.
Sadie Wilson, superintendent of mar
cotics for the Seventh and Eighth dis
tricts of the w. G. T. u. which pro-
poses to absolutely prohibit the sale
present law the sale of cigarettes is
prohibited to minors, but Mrs. Nc
Henry is going to insist that this law
be strengthened SO that no one. man,
woman or child, can purchase a Gig
arctic in the state. ft-
According to Mrs McHenry it was
lucky for Governor Hoch that a charge
was trumped up against her in Wich-
ita on which she was arrested on the
Saturday night before election. She
was kept in Jail for four days. without
a charge being preferred against her,
she says, and was then released after
election. IT was arrested for speak
ing against Hoch." she said. land if
they had not put me in Jail I would
have succeeded in defeating him."
sst;.Excuserrle . Eptaate, -. said Mrs,
McHenry and she reached inside her
coat and pulled out "a handkerchief
about the size of a large napkin.
Haunting it in the air she said. You
see that 1 don't use those fancy little
things which were only invented to
wipe the noses of poodle dogs"
Mrs McHenry proposes to begin
her street lectures on the frailty of
certain legislators. at once.