Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — MRS. LEASE IS WILLING. [ARTICLE]

MRS. LEASE IS WILLING.

If the People of Kaniu Desire It She Will Become a Senator. Topeka, Kan., special: Mrs. M. B. Lease has just mode the first authoritative statement concerning the use of her name in connection with the United States Sehatershlp. She arrived in town last night, and this morning she held a reception at her hotel. She announces to all callers that she would accept the Senatorshtp if it was offered her, but she would not engage in the scramble for tho plaoe. “I shall not enter the race for the place,” she said. “The office should seek the woman ate well as the man. When I say I shall make no fight I say It with this proviso: That I am not attacked ''solely because lam a woman. There is one very peculiar faot connected with my candidacy. I have received hundreds of letters of encouragement from men since the announcement of my candidacy, but not one lrom a woman. I am the only woman who has ever been mentioned in connection with a plaoe of this kind, and I naturally expected some encouragement from my sex. A letter from Miss Anthony, for example, or a word of eneburagement from Mrs. Joyns. Single-handed and alone I have done more for woman suffrage than all of them. I had a suffrage plank incorporated in the Populista’ platform, and I forced the Bepublican party to do the same thing. If the politicians see lit to attack me because of my sex I shall fight this thing to a finish as a matter of principle.”