Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-10-14
ROSES AND POLITICS.
A PEEP INTO THE WOMEN'S REPUB-
LICAN HEADQUARTERS.

dent and vice president; palms and vio-
lets before cabinet photographs Of Dud-
ley and Allison; a crucifix twined with
the stars and stripes: a worn Bible and
a tin plate card receiver on the desk
Uttered with pamphlets, letters and
newspaper clippings. Such is the ex-
traordinary tumble of religious and po-
litical features at the headquarters of
the Woman's Republican Association of
the United States.
Ribbons and Roses in Politics..
V Ribbons and roses in politics at last!
Here we have them. Ribbons tied in
the dainty rattan chairs and huttering
in roseate knots on the soft, white gown
of Mrs. j. Ellen Foster, president of the
association. Roses on the walls, on the
tables and mantel and on the breast of
this gentle woman, whose face CLOVIS
with the zeal of the Puritan and from
whose honest gray eyes looks the spirit
of Bunker Hill.
For Mrs. Foster is both q zeaiot and a
fighter. She is of the stuff of which
martyrs r. made, combined with a
goodly~ proportion of the old Adam.
.' NOAloS0 Boys anu "Omons'
It pleases the Democratic newspapers
these days to refer contemptuously to
the re-enforcements of college boys and
women" which Republicans are well
coming to their ranks. Well, college
boys have votes, and women can make
ballots if they can't WELD them.
What is the Woman's Republican as
ISOLATION doing?
Talking, writing, agitating and pub
fishing pamphlets containing good, sound
Republican doctrines; trying to unite the
social and educational influence of Re-
publican women and to enlighten ''the
shopping women on the Mckinley BILL"
for the latter have been repeatedly in
formed by the Democratic press that
Mr.. Mckinley is not only responsible
for the awful devastation of pearl but
) tons and tin plates, but for the riot,
strikes, %bloodshed, the battle, murder
and sudden death in this country, as
we'll as the price of butter.
Mrs. Fosters Literary Bureau.
Mrs. Foster, who is an eloquent and
convincing speaker, will stump New
York for Harrison and Reid. At the
present moment she is attending to the
publication and dissemination of a series
of political pamphlets. The first has
already been issued. and is called "Ob-
jects and Methods" The next will be
+ "The American Renaissance" Then
will follow "The immigration Cues
ton" Republican Contentious and Su-
preme Court Decisions" written by Mrs.
Foster, whose legal training em~inently
fits her to establish the fact that every
essential principle commended for by the
Republican party has been finally sus-
tanned by the supreme Judiciary.
~ A Woman on Finance"
Another interesting pamphlet, sour
Finances, is written by a woman-Mrs.
Margaret S. Burke, of Washington, a
specialist in politics and finance. This
lady is imore intimately acquainted with
financial questions, and especially the
practical side of the tariff question, than
any other woman in the country. She is
as familiar with the vaults Of the treas
ury department as an employee. Her
paper will be a complete REPUTATION of
the fallacies of the, Peoples party theo-
5ries. Mrs. Burke is the author of a book
now being published in chapters in the
Chicago Inter Ocean entitled '.The Story
Of Hercules" being a history of the
financialpolicy Of the Republican party.
Scenes at Women's Republican Head
quarters.
Whereas ct the national Republican
headquarters there is much confusion
and masculine hubbub, at the women's
headquarters business is conducted with
gentle deliberation and a mild feminine
futter. Mrs. Fosters aids are pretty,
refined, educated women. No one seems
unsexed; no M has as yet acquired the
brazen exterior popularity supposed to
accompany an interest in politics. Dur
ing the three hours I spent at headquar-
tiers | did not see n woman who by the
mildest stretch of imagination would
answer the description of a feminine
Sssswire puller" or ward heller or shrek
ing sister even. 55&3 j
There was a graceful, yellow haired
girl in a biscuit colored tailor frock,
Miss Romeyn Shaw, of Binghamton,
1 who will travel with Mrs. Foster; there
was Mrs. Flora Ovington, sof Iowa, with
wonderful soft little white curls framing
q face of great spirituality and sweet
ness. and there was Mrs. E. e. Howard,
Of Boston, a handsome woman with
snowy hair and sad, serious, dark eyes,
who wears the silver cross upon the
bosom of her stern black gown.
The rooms are constantly filled with
an ever changing crowd Of interested
women seeking information and tracts.
OF III Mrs. Foster is the most
prominent figure. She is a fascinating
conversational and speaks with N
thusiasm Of the coming campaign.
EDITH SNssrnNs THpprn,