The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-23
THIS WOMAN
 ACOUNTY BOSS
s. WILSON or LEBANON, OHIO.
 RULES LOCAL POLITICS.
Owns and Edits Only Democratic Paper In Her Oounty--In Power Twenty Years-Men Who Have Tried to
 Dust Her Have Come to
 Grief fn Their Attesnpts


 Owns and Edits Only Democratic Paper. In
 Yesrs~Men Who Have ave. Tried to
 oasr Grief afE 1T fhs;r hsse Asss%st.. Gs%s to New York Sun -
 It Is worse than foiish to seek county office in Warren county. Ohio. by the Democratic route unless one Is solid with Mrs. Mary Proctor Wilson.
 Mrs Wilson Is the Democratic county boss. She yields more Influence than any county. She controls Democratic politics In Warren county and in Lebanon. the county | seat, just as completely as Tom L. John Mrs. wilson has dominated her party in the county for more than twenty years. she herself cannot vote, but L the me men x.. do; wilson on the Democratic side. decides whom they shall vote for She Is boss ohio' % 1t % means @ lot 0Ins more " than to be boss in the sixth Congress district and the sixth It is the home of the Hilderbrandt- Scroggy feud. which means that two sepa- rate Republican conventions are held each year
 with Mrs. Wilson his next move is to ar. range with her tc line up the dsiesations Tt will cost SO much to get these delega- tions." she will tell him. and he will hand When the man she employs to line up the delegates in any precinct comes In after the money does she give 1t to him? Ans
 Not 0 until % after the convention and I have seen how well you do your work. !" she will tell him son She has to see the blue prints showing the front. side and elevations ana the
 But how does 1t all happen' Why is a
 Well one reason why Mrs. Wilson Is the boss is because she Is the boss That's why
 Then if you pick up the Lebanon Patriot. bright little country weekly, you will find Mary Proctor wilson. Editor and Proprte- tor" and on the first page of the paper you will learn that the Patriot is the Is probably the real reason she became the Democratic boss.
 itics of her district. she does 50 without the aid of a rainy day skirt. She takes part In the social activities of her town. and when dress, are if commented upon at ali. viii be mentioned because of It's thorough good taste.
 she does business she does 1t as a man does. One day an agent from Cincinnati came into her office to quote prices on some
 aTn make you special price" said he, because you are a woman"
 That ended the negotiations right there.
 ''When d man talks that way" she de- elared, ahe's probably getting ready to res '.'s; :;sst Tow has a woman rnanaRea fo main. iytain her power as county boss for more than twenty years2 Are there no men Democrats In Warren county? Why don't they start an opposition paper and wrest Mrs. Wilson's power from herr
 Maybe they haven't tried 2 Listen Sav- eral years ago-about isss--a clique of Democratic politicians decided that they had been bossed around by woman long enough. They decided to Ro after her.
 Their first move was to get control Of the Lebanon Republican and change it to Republican-Democrat They imported an able editor. but ths whole attempt petered out Inside of three months. Somebody else tried the game then. The paper became the Record, but t didn't last long. It was absorbed by the Western Star. and there was the end of that revolt. Since that time Mrs. Wilson has reigned alone.
 On the whole politicians would rather have her fight them with the paper than with her personal Influence When she chooses to wield the two together Republi- cans as well as Democrats sit up and take notice. And this in spite of a normal Re- publican plurality of 1900.
 In 1906 the county gave the Republican candidate for Congress less than 800 plu- rality over the Democrat. Matthew R. Dem yer. In 1890 Mrs. wilson succeeded in en- tirely wiping out ths Republican plurality