The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-17
Mrs. Nation Enters Alderman
Hinky Drinks Saloon.
Fights With Barkeeper and
They Roll on the Floor.
is FINALLY PUT OUT.
Delivers a Ten Minute Grafton
on the Street.
Raps Roosevelt, Taft and the
Mayor of the City.

chicago, June 11.-W1th cries OF
Come on out of that hell-hole'' and
'I'll smash every barroom in Chicago"
Carrie Nation, the former Kansas sa-
| loon destroyer. ended three days
| hatchetless campaign in Chicago when
she swept into the saloon of Alderman
kenna, Van Buren, and Clark streets,
and. swinging beer bottle aloft, drove
| bartenders and patrons about in wild
confusion and threatened to put the
| place out of commission
| Mrs. Nation had slipped into the city
| quietly last Wednesday night. She
| had spoken at several churches and
| missions on the liquor question, and
| had although very strenuous in her
language been tame.
At $40 o'clock at nigh. she entered
the Manuel Baptist mission on Clark
street, near Van Buren,, while w. F.
Ottinger, missionary worker, was in
the midst of a discourse.
"Im Carrie Nation, from Washing
tom" she exclaimed, land I'm here to
fight booze" She was accompanied by
James Calverley and wife, whose guest
she has been during her stay in the
city.
Mrs. Nation was at once given the
floor.
She talked for nearly an hour. and
then started on her tour of the South
Clark street resorts. 49,
The "Hinky Dink" Kenna saloon at
300 South Clark street was the first in
her pathway.
At its open doors she paused min
ute, and then. bursting into the crowd
ed rooms. blue with tobacco smoke,
pushed her way to the center of the
crowd of, patrons and, grabbing beer
bottle. got into action.
Get out of this hell hole'' she
cried, at the top of her voice. These
brutes of saloonkeepers are dogs. III
clean out the place
Fights With Bartender.
Hardly had she started to speak
when a bartender rushed at her fero-
ciously and grabbing her around the
waist, attempted to choke her off. A
man ran to his assistance, and togeth-
er the three struggled about the room,
, overturning tables and rolling about
| the floor. In the meanwhile Mrs.
Nation was yelling at the top OF her
voice to the bystanders In a violent
harangue.
Breaking loose, she grabbed a chair.
but this was taken from her. Finally
she was overpowered and. with the
bartender on one side and a patron
| on the other, was-r rushed through the
front door on to- the street -
| At the front door she paused and
large crowd gathered about her.
Quit speaking here shrilly exclaim-
! ed Mrs. Nation when she disengaged
herself from her captors outside the
doors Then she.delivered a ten min
! utes' grafton, emphasizing her points
by shaking her fist under the nose of
the bartender, who stood guard at
the entrance to see that she did not
get back into the place again.
Here are few of the things Mrs.
| Nation said:
| Mayor Busse Is dog OF the lowest
| type.
..The conditions in Chicago are
worse than any other city in the
United States.
| Theodore Roosevelt is the agent of
! the devil If there's any snakes head
| in the world. I'd like to step on II
| would be his. When he gets to he'll
| his picture will be arranged alongside
of Pabst, Anheuser, Budweiser, and
| Schlitz.
TAFT is not fat. He is made of
| putty. Roosevelt shapes him TO suit
| himself. ave-
"Taft is a low down inf1del. He
has openly declared his disbelief in
! Christ. He's in cahoots with the
| brewers" a.
Mrs. Nation arrived in this city
"Wednesday night from ta ReIasy tnnr
| of the west. Her home is now In
| eve given up. the Ratchet cam
paign," declared. Carrie last night.
Now I'm fighting the devil with the
4 word Of God.
| Calls Bryan a Chameleon.
| Mrs. Carrie Nation casually sur
veyed the convention crowds, looked
over the big Coliseum, and then half
| contemptuously passed up the Re-
publican slatemaking session to lee
ture before a couple of hundred wom-
| en- in Decatur, Ill. Before she depart
ed, however, she delivered a liberal
dissertation on the merits Of the presi-
| Dental candidates. She thinks there
| is nothing to it but Roosevelt and
Bryan.
| Nation. He -adapts himself admir-
ably to public sentiment. He is a good
/ locker, a good talker, but poor Bap-
fist. He will abandon principles like
| a sinking boat when he thinks he can
| ride to political heights on voters
| fads.
| roosevelt wants to be King mean
| literally King. He has got me guess
| ing. I don't know whether he would
| he is selling his soul for power. He has
| arranged a wonderful coup at Chicago.
| His friends will stampede the conven-
ton as surely as they convene, and
| Roosevelt will try to reign another
| tours years.
| address the Brewers convention, but
4 arrived too late. intended to tell
| them few things. 1 was going to have
| for my topic: What profit thee il thou
! gainest the whole world and lose thy
| soul?' The liquor interests thought
themselves impregnable. This prohibi-
ton wave will see greater progress
within the next year than it has during
the last three.
why have l. abandoned the ak?
Well. when welded the Ratchet 1
was hewing at the limbs instead of
r .rao fve H.
futility of my strenuousfty of the past.
The saloonkeeper is the product of
dishonest legislation, and it does no
I good to raise rough house in a sa-
roon as long as the government Ii
censes these hells.
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