Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-12-02
FEMALE POLITICIANS.
Some Of the Ladies Who Figure in Ma
tional Politics.
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than Is society elsewhere. One OF these
ia the fact that what is known as 80
cietyn here Is made up very largely OF
wives and daughters and other rela-
tives of professional politicians. They
| are accustomed 10 hearing the subject
discussed in business way,
and come to look upon the
success OF party AZ interviewer with
the success oftheir respective relations
who are associated with party. More
than that. many of these wives and
daughters and sisters are very acute
politicians Themselves. The eXigen-
cies of some political contest in which
their male relative was vitality inter
esteh has sometimes led them to take
an active part in political life, and, like
the lion which never fOrgets the smell
of blood, or the war-horse who Is al
WAYS excited by the smell OF
powder and the sound of battle,
they are thoroughly interested
when any contest political comes on.
And there are some excellent politici-
ans among the ladies. Everyone
knows the traditional effectiveness OF
woman in political intrigue, and,
whether this be well founded or not, IL
il at least % fact that some Of the
shrewdest politicians al Washington
are OF the gentler sex.
That Gen. Logan owes much Of his
success TO his wife is fact 30 well rec
ognized IA TO need scarcely be mem
toned. "She Is the better politician
of the two,n said gentleman who
knows them well, and has known them
for quarter of century. "She Is a
hard worker, careful reader,
methodical and close student of the
subject, Is blessed with good memo
nv, both for facts and faces, and with
| her large acquaintance in social and
political circles, and her very effective
ways, she Ia IA power. tell you, Lo-
gan would never have been where he
IL now but for his wife. The help that
she has been to him in his senatorial
fights has been something wonderful,
and can only be appreciated by those
who have witnessed them"
Mrs Logan Is by no means the only
woman here who may be counted an
expert politician. Mrs Gen. Williams,
the wife of Senator Williams, Is an
other who stands fairly abreast of her
husband AS political expert In fact,
the bluff war ways Of old "CerTo Cor
do, y the hero of two wars, are not of
the sort calculated to find favor with
all sorts of people, and the aid that his
wife has been To him In his numerous
political contests has been something
remarkable. That was memorable
contest at Frankfort when old Cerro
Gordo and his wife and daugh-
ter entered battle against Gov.
McCreary and one OF the
ablest and most prominent judges
of the western portion of the state, with
number Of smaller fry also against
him. The odds were agai ust the gem
eral, and the press everywhere were
predicting his defeat, but they did not
know the host that he had in his wife
and her daughter. ThegeneTal' 3 rooms
at the Capitol hotel were constantly
open, and Mrs. Williams never tagged
, In her work In his behalf. Day and
evening she was busy, her keen wo,
mans wit and calm self-pOssession
I never deserving her I'm the hottest o
the fight, and when old CerrO GOrdC
stood victorious at the end of long
. struggle, she was honored by frienC
and adversary as a prominent factor in
the fight which had made him sue
cessful.
Another woman who Ia an acute ob
server of politics and great aid TO he
A husband In his work here aud else
= whore is Mrs. Hawley, the wife OF the
Z senator from Connecticut. She has 70
almost quarter of a century been &C
! tive In affairs Of the nation. From the
day she came from her New Englant
home TO go upon the battlefield as
: nurse and TO do whatever her hant
found to do In behalf of the suffering
soldiers in the late war she has felt
: personal interest in politics. IL
: her husband she Is an invalu
!, able aid In the political worl
y and In his labors here In con
: gress. Although she has been an Ia
valid for more than half the time o
!, his congressional service, she has as
sisted him greatly In his work here
: keeping up his correspondence, ar
. ranging his work, attending TO men
2 sion aud other cases of this sort TO
= his constituents, and keeping all tn
i time her finger on the political pulse
y not alone in his state, but In the Who'll
country as well.
Mrs. Vance, the wife OF Senate
= Vance, is well posted on pulitica
= affairs, and IL taking deep interes
n in her husbands fight for reelection
- One of the hardest political worker
i IL Mrs. Budd, the wife OF the memhe
!, OF this name from California. He
y husbands district Is u very large on,
- yet she travelled all over IL with him 1
a blackboard, talking to the wome
y at their homes, or at the political gath
= erlngs where her husband mad
!, speeches, passing Judgment ON the hs
~ bies and the preserves, while Mr. Bud
~ literally painted the district red wit
= marking-brush aud paint.pot whIc
y y he carried, placarding every rock an
:, big tree along the roadside, "Vote f
- Budd.h Nobody expected him to |
successful, except his wife, for he ha
: a large majority 10 overcome: but /,
r gether they We're successful. IN
y wife helped me nobly,p h
said, IN talking over his wonderfl
70 success, "She travelled all over the al,
trict with me, and II was 40 large
y, one that IL took many weeks 10 cove
y once. and her quiet talk among III
u women, and the men too, did yer
much in helping me In the tremei
~ dous fight had TO make. We woul
y drive about the district, and when "a
" paFtt.t IN a ktar Fnalr "a.