Democratic party[1] was opposed to both amendments and to the new law on temperance, which it was supposed the women would actively support.
The Germans in their Conventions passed a resolution[2] against the new law that required the liquor dealers to get the signatures of one-half the women, as well as the men, to their petitions before the authorities could grant them license. In suffrage for women they saw rigid Sunday laws and the suppression of their beer gardens. The liquor dealers throughout the State were bitter and hostile to the woman's amendment. Though the temperance party had passed a favorable resolution[3] in their State Convention, yet some of their members were averse to all affiliations with the dreaded question, as to them, what the people might drink seemed a subject of greater importance than a fundamental principle of human rights. In-
- ↑ Democratic Resolution.—Resolved, That we are opposed to all the proposed amendments to our State Constitution, and to all unjust, intolerant, and prescriptive legislation, whereby a portion of our fellow citizens are deprived of their social rights and religious privileges.
- ↑ Action of the Germans.—St. Louis, Sept. 28.—A special dispatch to the Republican from Wyandotte, Kansas, says: "The German Convention, which was held at Topeka on Monday last, adopted resolutions against Sunday and temperance laws, and declare that they would not support any man for State, Legislative, or municipal office who would not give his written pledge to oppose such laws. An unsuccessful effort was made to commit the Germans to negro suffrage. The female suffrage question was not touched."
- ↑ State Temperance Convention—Lawrence, Kansas, Sept. 38. A mass State Temperance Convention was held here last night, and was addressed by Senator Pomeroy. ex-Gov. Robinson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony. Resolutions were passed committing the Temperance people to female suffrage, and to prevent the repeal of the Temperance law of last winter, to the abrogation of which the Germans pledged themselves in their Convention on the 33d.
hypocrisy of those negroes who claim rights for themselves that they are not willing other human beings with equal intelligence should also enjoy." The same paper says that at the meeting of the Republican State Central Committee in Leavenworth, last week, the following resolution was offered and laid on the table, by a vote of two yeas to one nay: Resolved, That the Republican State Central Committee do not indorse, but distinctly repudiate, as speakers, in behalf and under the auspices of the Republican party, such persons as have defamed, or do hereafter defame, in their public addresses, the women of Kansas, or those ladies who have been urging upon the people of Kansas the propriety of enfranchising the women of the State. Mr. Taylor, who offered the resolution, has accordingly published the following protest: The undersigned, a member of the Republican State Central Committee of Kansas, protests against the action of the Committee this day had, so far as relates to the placing of the names of I. S. Kalloch, C. V. Eskridge, and P. B. Plumb, on the list of speakers to canvass the State in behalf of Republican principles, for the reason that they have within the last few weeks, in public addresses, published articles, used ungentlemanly, indecent, and infamously defamatory language, when alluding to a large and respectable portion of the women of Kansas, and to women now engaged in canvassing the State In favor of impartial suffrage.R. B. Taylor.
