The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-15
Verses Dedicated to- She Devils
Who Gossip.
BOASTS FOR STATE
Nowhere But in Kansas Could
1T Have Occurred.
Some of the Poetry Bad as Act
Condemned.


tne pretty Lincoln Center, Kan, school
teacher. victimized in a plot which has
made an incOnspicuOus curve in the
road in Kansas known wherever news
Fpapers are read, deluged her with let
perS, which Logan coming When the
State Journal first made the incident
public and are still coming, weeks at
ter the inStigatOrs of the tar party
have begun serving their sentences.
proposals OF marriage are not the
least frequent of these. Others have
brought eAAers of assistance, and even
stage offers have been numerous among
them. However, those priced most
highly by Miss Chamberlain are the
ones expressing sympathy for her and
characterizIng her assailants as I'M
speakable brutes. and the women gos-
sips, the real originators of the af-
fair" as "rowdies VINO would rub a
dogs ears to make him fight" These
protests have come in poetry and in
prose, showing the spirit which prompt
ed the writer's, regardless OF the quail
ty of dictiOn. A few of these letters,
which Miss Chamberlain has sent to
the State Journal follow:
Call of the Men of Kansas.
oh. Kansas, your Shady Bend affair
Has Der the land gone everywhere.
Wherever men or women dwell
Their hearts in horror beat and swell
" as ever crime so vile surpassed?
Can human minds such basenesS grasp
Had these men mothers. daughters wives:
Or did they come from Mormon hives
Where sex relations and sacred ties
Are al effaced by Mormon Iies2
Oh. no. Oh. no, Not even there
Such brutes-uncommOn brutes-so rare
Could ever breed or come to life
To snarl and snap, to crunch and smite
VIII Kansas harbor dogs like these2
To faint her fair name2 foul her breeze2
Can petty fines or sentence light
The wrong undo. injustice right2
Oh, let this be but the prelude
To what will follow this savage blood.
IN wolves you have a bounty placed,
IA protection of the human race,
So let your bounty cover these
lnhuman brutes to shoot who please.
In all your state is there not one
To take Ed RiCOrd. dog of rum.
And tar and rail him from your sight2
Oh, men of Kansas, smite this blight,
Ottawa. III.
''She Devils Did the Planning
Shady Bend is on the jar:
Women superior to men.
They dress up in coat of tar
Supposed to make them equal then,
In the History of Kansas
The she-devils do the planning,
Leading husbands in the art.
The flowers of jealousy keep forming
To break the superiOr's heart,
Making the History of Kansas
1.-The Golden Rule is dead and buried.
Deep down in the cold, cold ground
Around its grave they're making merry |
While they pass the tar around,
Giving the History of Kansas.
Has Shady Bend become so shady
That its brighter virtues are
In degrading some fair lady,
While they smirch her up with tar?
Wove in the History of Kansas
Enough to make the angels weep,
Or shame the devil in his den,
The way they let their morals sleep,
Out in the sorry Shady Bend.
Shaping the History Of Kansas.
L.
Bedford. Ia
Devils With Devils Sympathize.
Devils with devils sympathize.
To helliSh deeds perform.
When helpless victims realize
Every base Villains scorn-
Especially out in Kansas.
1t repented God that He made man,
And grieved him sore at heart,
In the Kansas Tar Party" plan
To rend womans heart,
Done nowhere else in Kansas.
Base fiends incarnate to perform
Such an inhuman part
To total depravity,' SO adorn,
1t '-grieved Him sore at heart
To be done even in Kansas.
A woman. sweet and comeIy.
Hounded by internal fiends,
To baseness given only,
To all His works bemean-
But only done in Kansas.
A shame to all creation,
Dissracing God and man.
They shame the devils station
As only Kansas can
With the outrageous Tar Party"
Bedford, Ia.