The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-06-18
MRS. LIviA PoFFENsAReER
ATTRACTS MUCH ATTENTION.
Thinks Party should support candi.
date, Whether II Is Taft or
Roosevelt.
Mrs. PoHenherser and Mrs. cIasseoek
Both Come Out Opposed q
Women's Votes.
3.

CHICAGO. June IT.-"stay on the
reservation
This is the slogan Of Mrs. Livia
Simpson-Ponenbarger. wife OF George
Ponenbarger. judge OF the supreme
court OF West Virginia. She has come
10 Chicago in hopes OF harmonlzing
the Republican party.
Mrs. Pofenbarger Is neither a dele.
gate o the wife OF a delegate or
committeeman but she II the pub
Usher OF a newspaper. and believed
by many persons. TO be the best poll.
tician. man or woman. in her state. .
Responsible for Election.
Congressman James A. Hughes, the
only Republican congressman from
West Virginia, is said 20 have de-
clared this woman responsible for his
election and with having prevented a
split in the state Republican party in
1910.
Stay on the reservation-thatis my
idea" said Mrs. P~ofenbarger yester-
day. Il am for the nominee of the
convention. but no boiling. mind you.
/ come from a state hat is unanimous
for Colonel Roosevelt. but / stand
first for party harmony"
Talks Party Harmony.
Immediately after the arrival of the
West Virginia special train the
woman-editor politician went TO the
Congress hotel. where her party bar
mony discussions were a feature OF
the convention arguments in the lob
by.
She was asked how she stood on the
question OF woman suffrage.
i am against woman suffrage be
cause the American women do not
want it, was the reply. Every areu-
ment points toward its being right.
but II the woman doesn't want II.
why discuss IL? The American
m to-day has everything she asks
for, and II she really asked her hus.
band for the right TO vote. believe
me, she would get it,"
Needs No Rest.
Mrs. Poffenbarger left other women
OF the West Virginia party in their
rooms az Hotel Sherman. She said
she needed no rest after her long
journey.
There were many women in the
special party. and several came TO
husbands who departed from
the east last week to be here for the
p-reconvent'On contests.
Mrs. William Seymour Edwards.
whose husband organized the Roose-
welt delegation OF his state. was
hostess 10 fifteen men and women on
a special car Of the train.
In the party were Mrs. W. F. Glass.
cock. wife OF the West Virginia gov.
ernor; Mrs. II. d. Hatfield. whose nus.
band Is the Republican nominee for
governor; Mrs. Houston G.. Young
whose husband is secretary OF the
West Virginia state Roosevelt com.
mittee; Mrs. Thomas X. Laing. Mrs
j. V. sullivan. Mrs. J. w. Dawson.
Miss Maude Brown. Mrs. James p
Fitch and others.
Not . ~sutfraaette.
Woman suffrage " not troubled
West virginia yer. so / do not believe
you VIII ind any sufragettes In oui
party said Mrs. Glasscock.
Mrs. Leslie Sutherland. OF Yonkers
y. Y. whose husband Is a con
gressional district and state commit
teeman. expressed her opposition ID
woman suffrage and asserted tina.
"woman's reign would be over n suf
frage were extended"
Wives Of four delegates were guest,
az a reception given by Daughters OIL
the Revolution In the Art Institute
They we're MFs William y Borah
Mrs. William p. Mckinley. Mrs. Jos
NJ Dixon and Mrs. Thomas Thorson
Mrs. Louis p. Payne. wife OF Z
former New York congressman. VII,
Is a delegate to the convention. ar