| Show MRS LEASE those who have hare sought bought to make light of the political aspirations of mrs lease and to ridicule aher her candidacy for the united states for kansas in most moat instances chave have been reckoning without their host bost 6 the springfield field mass a ra republican ran mas has taken the trouble to aa ascertain certain as to her antecedents and general status and informs the waiting world that she is not mary ann lease nor mary ellen lease but mary elizabeth lease and abid she has both irish and scotch blood in her veini her father her her uncle died in the federal service during the civil war and her own life has been a struggle gl with the world ever since her fathers death at anderson ville besides having ft a command of the english language she knows french as well as greek and latin and she to is equally at home in di discuss ing general political questions woman suffrage temperance the labor question socialism and religion she Is something of a poet likewise and she recalls that when she was scarcely 10 years old she had a war poem published in the boston pilot now let any one who entertains objections or knows of others who have any to the ladys becoming a solon in the upper establishment lish ment of the he national lawmaking law making body present the same at once or forever after hold bold his bis peace |
