The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-08-25
W0MAN'S VOICE
In the Campaign will he Raised
for Honest Government.
SIZE EXERTS GREAT INFLUENCE
The wonan's Republican Organization
Proposes 10 Wage an Active Warfare.
Some Good Missionary work-Ni cthods
En,ployed, by tho Organization IN Now
York Opening tho Eyes ofthc Hind.

NEW YORK, Aug 2i.-rhc Press
says; Women In ,bloomsrs and womcn;in
politics 80 long have furnished food for
professional testers and the struggling
humorIsts that the public has come to
look upon them assn sort OF twin sisters,
equally amusing and equally harmless.
But no one knows better than the vet
eran campaigncr how mistaken IL the
public In itg opinion VI the woman In
politics: he recognizes In her Il powerful
ally and a successful vote EGtter, and he
treats her as such. .
For weeks Miss Helen VnrlCk Boswell,
chairman OF the WOman's Republican
Association. has been almost II daily
visitor at the Republican headquarters
and no astute politician with decprlnld
and cunning schemes for conducting the
campaign IL received with more atten-
'tlon and courtesy. Is
She Is a born politician. confirmed In
the Republican faith. and, as the follow
ing little Incident shows, she actually
stays awake the nights thinking up
schemes for defeating the enemy. Not
lonEugu her maid. who has caught some
OF her mIstress'R political enthusiasm.
and who takes n great II not altogether
enlightened Interest In the issues OF the
day, came TO Miss Boswell and confessed
that her father, the janitor OF n neigh
boring Hat. was going TO vote for Bryan
and free silver. You sec" she eXplnin-
cd rather apolOgctically. they tells us
We will have more money II W. gets free
silver, and, OF course. that's what us
poor people needs most. lfo says money
weren't never 50 scarce with him ms Il
are now. and he guesscs he'll have to-
vote for Mr.. Bryan"
Hrr First Convert.
Never did a missionary ponder longer
owe a method OF reaching a bcnlIhted
heather than did Miss Boswell In her eff
forts to show that misguided JanItor the
error Of his reasoning, a good part OF
that night she thought about It. and be-
fore she wen to sleep she had hit upon q
plan which she hoped would be Success
ful. The e morning, when the jani-
tor dropped in to see his daughter, she met
him and asked him II he really had made
up his mind to vote for Bryan and free
silver. The janitor admitted that ne
had.
"You See" he began. well have more
money then, and that's what | need
most"
You have u sister In The old country
still, haven't yau, John?" Miss Boswell
interrupted.
Two OF them"
And do you ever send them any
money!"
Indeed I do. Whenever l can lay by
n pound. they get 1t regular"
You take down about five dollars
now, don't you, and buy an exchange"
about that
Now do you realize that just ~ soon
as W. have free silver you will have to
pay ten dollars instead OF five for every
pound you send TO your sisters
John had not realized II, and the
knowledge rather stunned him. Miss
Boswell then explained 10 him In n
manner which he cTuid understand how
England and all the countries of Europe
would refuse TO nccept our dollar. de-
based by free coinage. and when John
left the house 1t IN with the firm con-
vlctIon that the elcti0n NJ Bryan was the
worst thing tina; could happen 10 him
and his sisters.
This, and other plans OF presenting
the issue fairly and clearly to the poorer
classes Miss Boswell has submitted to
Chairman Charles W. Hackttt. and he,
with his colleagues. have been 81 im-
pressed with them that they have decid-
ed, 10 stand behind the Woman's Re-
publican Association and to recognize II
as fully as any other campaign orSuni-
cation.