The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-25
LOVELY WOMAN
IS RECOGNIZED
AS BIG FACTOR
Three Leading Presidential
Candidates Making Earnest
Plea for Votes of the
Wives and Mothers.
SUFFRAGE GRANTED
IN SIX BIG STATES
Ohio to Vote on the Question
September 3, and Oregon,
Kansas, Michigan and Wis
consin at Fall Election.
BY International News Service.

VA aSHlNGTON, Aug. 2s.-Wo-
NM man, lovely women, is fast
w gaining equal political recog-
milton with "mere men. - The
coming campaign will witness the un.
precedented spectacle of the three lead.
ing presidential candidates making an
earnest plea for female votes. While
the progressive party is the only one
that has incorporated a plank for
women suffrage in its platform, both
the Republican and Democratic leaders
are establishing national organizations
with women at their head for the pur-
pose Of attracting the female vote in
the six states that have already grant
ed equal suffrage, and for the moral
effect it may have on the male voters
In other states, where this question has
become burning issue.
The voters will not only be treated
to the unusual spectacle Of an ex-presi.
dent trying for q third term at the
head OF new party but will have
the pleasure Of seeing and hearing fe-
male sPellbinders who will stuup the
country IN support of their favorite>
candidates.
Where Women Vote.
Colorado. Idaho, Utah. Washington
and wyoming are the six states IN the
union that have already given them
the right to vote, and it is estimated
that there are 100000 female voters
In these states. SO formidable a nun.
Der has to be reckoned with even BY
a presidential candidate. When Colonel
Roosevelt swept the state of California
in the presidential primaries iast
spring, the female vote, it was claimed.
was responsible for his enormous ma.
Jonty. The states above mentioned
have 65 votes out of total of 531 in
the electoral college
Active work has already been begun
by the various presidential candidates
to Capture these votes. The Womeu's
National Wilson and Marshall orgapi-
cation with Mrs j. Borden Hartman
at the head, has opened its headquar.
ters in the Fifth Avenue building, n.
" and the work of forming state or
ganizatiops is being rapidly conducted.
Governor Wilson's three daughters.
and Mrs. Thomas Gore, wife of the
senator from Oklahoma, are q few of
the other prominent women connected
with the Democratic campaign.
Women's Republican League.
The Republican organization. not to
be outdone, has announced the appoint
ment of Miss Helen Boswell of New
York as chairman of the Womeu's
League for the re-election of President
Taft, woman 8 auxiliary organization
to work for the Republican organiza-
tion in the equal suffrage states Miss
Boswell is president of the National
Women s Republican organization. The
however. have received
slight setback, owing to the refusal OF
Miss Mabel Boardman to act as head
Of the advisory committee. Miss
Boardman, who is close friend of the
Taft family, has decided not to enter
into the campaign owing to her posi-
ton as hend of the American Red Cross
society.
The "Bull Moose" party is by no
means depending alone on its woman
suffrage plank to attract female votes.
They have opened national women's
organization in the Metropolitan tow
,r with Miss Alice Carpenter, prom
nent advocate OF equal rights, iu
;hsrge, and the work of organizing
,tate clubs is rapidly under way. Miss
Carpenter has submitted a plan of or
yanization prepared by the women
Members of the national committee of
he Progressive party, which has been
.pproved. According to this plan each
tate and each county committee is to
ave at least one woman member. They
IRA TO be attached to tho party head
marters and work with the committee
houIder to shoulder. Their special
york will be enlisting women in the
ampaign, and particularly getting suff
age workers out to spellbind for the
Joy reigns throughout the suffra-