The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-30
WOMEN ELECTION CAPTAINS.
BI'NNING AN ENDLESS CHAIN CAM
PAIGN ~ THE 31ST.
Husband OF One Of Them. Himself Con-
nolsseur, Says It's q Fine Political
idea, bnt had for the Digestion-How
Tom Watson Fooled q Fair Politician.

Husband OF One OF Them. Himself Con-
nolsscur, Says It's q Fine Political
idea, but had for the Digestion-How
Tom watson Fooled Fair Politician.
II Joe Behilf. Republican nominee for
Assembly in the Thirty-frst district, isn't
elected it won't be through the fault OF
Mrs ldward A. 0ernhardt and the fifteen
or twenty other women captains who are
assisting in running the campaign. Beihilf
ha, a woman captain In addition to the
REGULAR captain In each OF fifteen or twenty
election districts and all Of them have
Leen hustling for more than week getting
their women friends to promise to make
their hr!s' ands vote for the Republican
candidate for Assembly, and in many cases
conducting personal campaign among
the voters themselves. Most Of the cap
tairs" husbands are interested in politics
and used to talk politics in their homes.
Nearly all Of them now, though. try not
to let political sui jects intrude in the family
circle, that is, when they are able to find
the family circle
As to the success OF the movement, Mrs.
Gernhardt said last night:
We are getting along finely, We women
Not A single voter that I've seen has refused
10 promise to support Beihilf. The move
ment Is a complete success, providing.
OF course, the men keep their promises.
Mrs. Gernhardt was engaged at o'clock
last night, when SUN reporter called at
her home at 81 West 1llth street in address,
ing pile Of envelopes. The envelopes
contained circulars which the women cap
tains are going to send out
we are going to work the endless chain
scheme, you know" said Mrs. Gernhardt
q very captain of US is going to write to
every friend she has In the district, asking
her friends to write to their friends and those
friends to their friends, and so on to an
indefinite number OF friends. Don't you
think that plan ought to cover the district?
] don't see how a single man can escape,
because every man in Harlem Is the friend
Of some ody. ven as the campaign stands
now, we've done pretty we'll, think, hut
a man-to-man canvass is rather slow,
YOU know. Besides, this other plan Of ac-
ton has the additional"
Mrs Gernharut, Mrs. Gernhardt,' said
a mans Toice from a room in the rear of
the house. Have We got any butter in the
house?"
.Oh, de ar, no. That's so; forgot it.
b order it with Capt. WeissheTger wleh
'ye met Mr.. fa-udirg, and you Know we've
leen trying to locate him for two days.
But, Edward, here is an from THE Sun
TO talk politics" said Mrs, Gernhardt
Mr.. Gernharot came into the room carry
sHow do you do? Glad to see YOU said
he, without the slightest trace OF pleasure
on his face.
There was a rap at the door.
SIS Capt. Gernhardt in?" asked boy
with package, as Mr.. Gernhardt opened
the door
(which captain. me or my wife, he
# was true, he admitted. that he was
interested in politics; that he was the captain
Of the election district in which he lived;
at his wife was captain of the same dis
trict; that he thou ght Beihif's scheme
for bipartite campaign anagenent was
pretty good so far as election results were
coneerhed, but to- Oh on the digestion; :,
to the p OF lii cause viz / guess guess can
risk my stomach for Beihilf -
YES interrupted Mrs. Gernhardt. the
men are promising quite freely. AS said,
not a sir ale one has refused me l had
lie said that the Repa6lican party wasn't
good for anythir hecause 1t represe, ted
The money power, but st replied to him:
Is gi0ger cooky gi ger cooky without
ginger ia it! Will bread rise without yeast
ne SdlO he Rutseeu llOl, dlu III JuSl
as certain as can be that he is won over,
But all the other captains, continued
Mrs Go 'nhardt, report just about as good
SUCCESS as I've had. They have, of course,
had 10 contend with their little discourage
ments, but all have risen superior to the
occasion. They've found some voters stub
born and contrary, na1like, you know.
but after little arguing and the statement
Of few rock bottom campaign facts they
have been led TO see the right side OF the
quest on. But, of course, there's that un-
certainty as TO whether they will keep their
promises"
So far as Mrs. Ge-nhardt or any of the
other captains know, there had been only
one unpleasant incident in the. campaign:
That had happened when the husband OF
one Of the women who had been working in
the Republican cause came home from out
of town the other day. He is travelling
man and had been absent for several weeks
He ia also a strong Democrat. When he,
heard what his wife had been doing he
was angry.
PAPER that Mr. Watson said the Republicans
and the Democrats were all the same, and
as all the ladies in my set were working for
Mr. Beihlf thought ] ought TO, too, .
Ona man who had been approached by
one of the woman captains said that this
argument on imperialism was advanced to
him:
"You are married man. aren't YOU!
You have wife You love her, don
you7 She understands her business, doesn't
she? Well, what would YOU do without
her? Just so, the United States is the
wife Of the Philippines, their. Protector:
their comforter in. times Of tro' BILE. Would
YOU have this Government divorce the
i.ar DIS? World you have the wife divorce
the husba"d?"'
Mr.. Beihilf refused to talk about his
scheme Of campaif ming OF about his popu-
laritv with the women.
THE facts speak for thenselves,' said
he
Other people said that the plan had been
sdoTted because the women friends OF
Mr. bernstein, candidate on the Demo-
cratic ticket, had started in to boom his
stock.