The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-18
Woman Suffrage Is on the Way,
Says Ben TiIIman.
Declares Old FOgies Like Him.
self Can't Stop 1t.
The UNWRITTEN LAW
In Discussing the Diggs-Cami-
netti Case in Senate.
In the South They Would Have
Had No Trial.

Washington, Aug. Ex-senator Till
man. showing some of the old time
Vtgor that won him the sobriquet OF
P1tchfork Ben," pitched into woman
Suffrage in a senate speech today.
1T is a beautiful Dream" said he,
that female suffrage will purify poll
tics The vital and important thing
for us to consider is the effect on
women themselves. We had better
endure the evils of the corruption in
politics and debauchery in our gov
ernment rather than bring about a
condition which will mar the beauty
and dim the lustre of the glorious
WomanhoOd to which we have been
accustomed all our lives.
I'VE can better afford to have de-
graded and corrupt politics than de-
graded and bad women. To have both
IN ever increasing degree as was the
case IN Rome. would make the world
so unspeakabIy horrible as we'll as so
corrupt that good men and women
both would disappear from the face OF
the earth and civilization would be
blotted out like it WIS in the dark aRes
after the fall of Rome. L am so thor
oughly convert to the belief that YOU
cannot touch pitch without being de-
nIed that L Shudder to think OF the
consequences to the womanhood OF
America should suffrage become UNI
races. Yet the experiment is going to
be tried, L fear
Senator TIlman said the demand of
women for suffrage was growing too
fast to be stopped by "old fogies" like
hlmset and that it was apparent the
men of the country would give them
what they demanded even though ii be
to their ultimate injury.
Il believe woman VIII improve pol
itics but ultimately politics will de-
st haF In
and when our good women are no
longer to be found and we have lost
the breed, the doom OF the republic
is near"
Senator Tillman included in his
speech a vigorous attack upon the III
Vorce evil and referred to the Diggs-
Caminetti white slave cases IN Oau-
fornia.
IF the California men had our GUS
toms" he cried, ''DiggS and Caminet-
ii would not be alive now because Jhey
would have been shot like dogs and the
fathers of the girls they have ruIneu
would be acquitted almost without tne
jury leaving the box.
The unwritten law is the best law
to protect women's virtue that l have
heard OF. The more L think about the
DiggS-Caminett case the more out
ragged L grow at the state of morals
and society which not only permits
such crimes but encourages them
The danger from woman suffrage,
said Senator Tillman, was increased by
the cowardice of public men every
where.
No Interference From Washington.
Washington, Aug. 1S.-So far as the
federal government is concerned there
will be no interference in the Sulzer-
Glynn contest in New York state
President wilson told inquirers today
that the question had not come up and
recalled that a century ago when there
were two contesting governors in
Rhode Island and the national admin
istration was called upon to decide, the
supreme court held that it was the duty
of the federal government merely to
guarantee a republican form of govern
ment to the state as prescribe in-the
and no obligation de-
upon the federal government to
interfere in the contest.