The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-07
TAKEN TO JAIL.
Myra McHenry in Hands of the
Police.
Charge Is Disturbing Meetings
of Temperance Union.
CARRIED OUT OF ROOM
Completed Speech on Steps and
Is Then Arrested.
Mr.. Cowgirl Is Again Elected
President of Organization.

"Mr. President, I want to speak
few words before this meeting closes
about John Marshall. that hypocrite
sitting over there in the corner" ex-
claimed Mrs. Myra McHenry yester-
day afternoon as the session of the
State Temperance Union convention
was ready to adjourn anc at the same
time pointing her fingers at Mr.. Mar
shall with a sneer of disgust upon her
face and her nose curled up to en-
phasize her feelings.
81 move to adjourn was Numbered
out from the rear of the room.
81 second the notion" called out
another voice. and before Mrs. Myra
McHenry could recover her senses the
motion had prevailed.
81 am going to say something any
how and you don't need to stay and
hear me unless you want to, but il
you leave it will be because you are
afraid of the truth. That man over
there who is parading before you in
the disguise of a lawyer for the State
Temperance union is an impostor. He
is one of the" and before Mrs. Nc
Henry could rattle Off the remainder
of her sentence, the sexton of the
church, who had previously warned
her to keep her peace, walked up to
her and told her to stop or he would
take her out of the church. Mrs Nc
Henry demonstrated with him, but in
vain and finding that she was averse
to going he picked her up and carried
her out of the church bodily. This was
done not at the instigation of any of
the officers of the union, but was en-
tirely volitional on the part of the sex
ton, who at the same time did a great
service to the meeting.
Mrs. McHenry halted on the steps
of the church and there began to pour
forth her grievances upon matters
in general Some of you people who
stand there may laugh at me and call
me crazy, but 1 am inspired by the
Holy Ghost in my work and 1 will not
stop until every saloon is wiped off the
face OF Kansas and then 1 can enter
the pearly gates and hear them say
they look at me, Well done. thou good
and faithful servant The State Tenn
party are running hand in hand and
are working the public with their
graft. There is this man John Mar
shall, one of the blacklist men in the
state who works for these so called
temperance people. There is Governor
Hoch, who is about as rotten an Of
fetal as ever lived ION. Gods green
earth. He is also in with these graft
ers. ] remember one night when 1
walked into the drug store saloon of
men in there drinking, one of them
was that man Cowgirl, president of the
State Temperance union. Another was
that scoundrel Hoch, who is governor
of Kansas, and the other was Coleman,
the attorney general. The men were
so drunk that they had to be taken
home in cabs
About the time that Mrs. McHenry
had allowed her imagination to carry
her beyond the limits of sane speak
ing, the patrol wagon arrived on the
scene and she was taken to the city
Jail on a warrant charging her with
released on bond, after John Marshall
had interceded in her behalf.
Mrs. McHenry was present through
out the entire afternoon session but
managed to restrain herself pretty well
during most of the afternoon. She took
the floor but once and made but few
remarks at that time. THE State
Temperance Union has been organized
for % years and there are now 1874
looms in Topeka Why don't you tenn
perance people get busy and clean up
your own town?" This was all she was
allowed to say at this stage of the
game.
During the afternoon session a ques-
ton box on Law Enforcement was
Several leading members of the union
participated in this discussion. DR.. w.
A. Young of Kansas City, J. K. Cod
ding and DR.. Young of Louisville. KY,
took part in a discussion on the sub
ject, What the Union Owes to Poll
tics" The rest of the afternoon was
devoted to business and Mrs. McHenry.
By a unanimous vote the union voted
to ally themselves in their work with
the Antisaloon League, a national or
ganization which works much the same
lines as the union. Such a step was
made without changing the name of
the organization and the affairs of the
union will be carried on in much the
same manner as they have been in the
past.
F. C. Slater. of Topeka, introduced a
resolution authorizing the union to send
letters to the different members of the
Kansas delegation in congress and ask
ing them to vote in favor of a bill now
before cong1 ess which prohibits the is
suing of revenue tax receipts from Ii
Quor sales in states which do away
with the saloons. This measure would If
passed prohibit issuing government Ii
Quor licenses to Kansas drug stores.
This resolution carried without a dis
senting vote.
The following officers were reelected
for the coming year: President, E. B.
Cowgirl; vice president, Thomas Page;