Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

Lease a local pharmacist. She was described by a Republican editor as "the petti-coated smut-mill. She was recognized as being a powerful orator who was adept at expressing the discontent of the people.

Lease died in Callicoon New York. She was an advocate of the suffrage movement as well as temperance but Mary Elizabeth Lease was best known for her work with the Populist party. In addition Mary Elizabeth Lease worked as an editor for the National Encyclopedia of American Biography.