The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-13
FROM OTHER PENS
PARTY NAMES.

Sometimes a word hastily spoken or
an incident in itself of little moment
| has given a name to new pohtical
movement. The bull moose is the &C
cepted symbol and name Of the Pro
gressiVe party and when first used
was applied by Mr.. Roosevelt to him
self in a moment of friVolty, ana ne
finally on second thought, approved
of the bull moose as the party en-
blem The name Abolitiouist was at
first applied IS a term of reproach 10
the party which called itself Liberty
The conservative Democrats III 1873
were called Hunkers. and the Free
Soil faction the Barnburners, because
they were charged with being lncen-
diary in principle. The American par
ty, soca1led, which rose in importance
in 1852 was a secret, oathbound or
ganizatiOn, of whose objects nothing
was told until the members had reach
ed the highest degree The members
decla ration that they knew nothlng
about the party whose primary object
they knew quite well. gave TO them
the name of Knownothings. During
and after the war the northern Demo
Gratis who were in sympathy with the
south were dubbed Copperheads. after
the copperhead snake. which gives no
warning before it strikes. The term
Mugwump, first applied in 1874 10 tne
Repuhlicans who bOlted Blaine, IS
from the AIgonduin n. ogquOmp. mean
ing one who thinks himself a great
man. The New York sun introduced
the word in the 1884 campaign ana IT
gained an immediate popularity me
Peoples party Of recent memory. was
called the Populist- because or the
need of a single word 10 cover the
whole party name ana 70 designate
the marty followers. Political parties
have not often borne through life the
names applied to them at birth. There
is precedent for applying the familiar
name that has become current in
high sounding and often inappropriate
name which the founders have affixed
New orleans Picayune.
GIRLS AS HUSBAND HUNTERS.
To the many fads of vocational
training in the public schools a new
one was proposed at, the recent teach
ers' institute in Cincinnati by DR..
Holmes a psychologist of the UniVer-
sitv of Pennsy lvania. He says "Al
teachers should teach their girl pupils
how to distinguish real man from
an imitation one. When girl mar
ries she is married to the family Of
the man for four or five generations
back. If his grandparents we're def
eient she will have to expect trouble
With her children" There is a certain
sex partially In the inference that the
instruction be given only to
girl pupils. Surely, on equal grounds.
Joys should be taught to know a real
girl from an imits ton one. A boy
nay not have to marry a girls family
i've generations back, but ne certainly
las to accept the old folks, and II he
las been careless he will have to eH-
iect trouble with his mother-tn-la"-
But waving the issue of partially and
considering only the vocation OF the
-irl as a husband chooser, very little
ELECTION will bring out the well nign
hopeless absurdity Of the proposed
ducation. Nearly three thousand
ears of experience recorded in tales
nd histories proves that the more a
-irl is taught and educated TO marry
particular man the more she doesn't
10 it. And who shall decide between
What is the real man and what the
imitation? Can any school teacher 20
t better than the school girl OF mar
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