New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-03
WILL MAKE NO CAMPAIGN
Girl Candidate Would Adore To
Be an Alderman" Though.

The girl candidate for alderman on the
Socialist ticket in Brooklyn wants every
one 10 know that she has studied domestic
ecience and keeps house for her father at
their home No % Pierrepont street.
Sho came down from her country place
IN New Canaan, Conn, yesterday. just to
see how things We're going since she de-
cided TO run for The Office of city father.
IT is all very unusual
To tell the truth, Miss Elizabeth butcher,
daughter of an old and aristocratic family
OF the silk stocking district and q gradu-
ate Of Nassar College, class Of 'ol, never
thought Of being an alderman until one
evening about two weeks ago she came
home to fnd.a group Of reporters sitting
in her pallor. who informed her that she
had been nominated by the Socialist party
for alderman In the 1st District Of Kings
County. At first she said she couldn't and
she wouldn't. Then she remembered that
she had been doing social work for years
as agent Of the Brooklyn Bureau of Chart
ties and knew the needs Of the district,
and she decided that she would make a
good alderman If she were elected, 80 she
permitted her namo to be printed on the
ticket.
That is as much as she will do, however.
She is going back to New Canaan in a few
days. No campaigning for her. She made
q soap box speech for suffrage once and
it was awful She had sore throat for d
week. Neither will she write letters or
spend money, or buttonhole voters She
will run as the exponent Of socialism, not
as Miss Elizabeth butcher. If her con-
atituents want a Socialist alderman this
year all right. II they don't Miss butcher
viii survive. but she would adore to be
an alderman"
DO you really expect 10 be elected"
We'll, l don't want anybody 10 think a
vote for me is vote thrown away. This
is vacillating district. and people are
very much disgusted with the way the men
arc running things. I think many of them
would trust a woman and q Socialist. They
are very liberal here about all public mat
tcrs The pastor Of the church around the
corner. Trinity Church, of which, by the
way, I am a member, let's the Socialists
meet i'm the parish house. oh, no, thai
doesn't commit him 10 our belief We pay
rent. But The Socialist party is very small
in numbers. I expect to he elected not BY
/ Socialists. bur by disguised Republicans
and Democrats Ny own father is a Demo-
crat, but VIC don't talk politics together.
! I keep house for him and make him happy
at home
Miss butcher has found herself several
! times Oh the crests of the waves Of cur
| rent events. Publicity pursues me. though
4 I hate it," she sighed. II did picket duty
for the Wonlens Trade Union League dur
I ing the shirtwaist makers strike. had
charge Of $4,000 for tho relief fund for the
sufferers from the Aach Building disaster
/ last spring. and now | have TO be an
/ alderman maybe. Anyway the newspa-
yers are after me all tho time, and / don't
see why. one last remnant Of my old
4 fashioned ideas l stll cling TO. II is alb
solutelv against my principles to have my
picture ina a newspaper. Those which
have been published under my name were
nobody ! know. They have made lot
OF trouble, too. Ny relatives from upstate
wrote. Dear Elizabeth, what have you
I Leon doing 10 yourself? You look so diff
fcrcnt' Then / had TO write and reassure
/ them that ] didn't look that way at all