Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-08-19
WOMAN ASPIRES
TO LEGISLATURE
Mother Influence Needed in
Legislation, Says Mrs.
Margaret M. Ross
K DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE
interviewed in Portland, Mrs.
Ross Gives Out a Few
of Her Ideas

While Mrs. NJ. NJ Ross, democratic
candidate for the legislature from the
29th district, was in Portland last
week, she was interviewed upon the
political situation in this section by
the OregOnian. The interview ap
peared in tnat paper of Friday, part
of which is reproduced below, which
will serve as an Introduction of the
lady, who is as yet unknown to the
democrats in many parts of the dis
trct, slight defect that Mrs. Ross
will proceed to remedy as soon as
the primaries announce who her Op
ponents will be, and the real cam
paiSn opens. The OregOnian said, in
part:
Practical demonstration of the wo
man in politics is furnished by Mrs
Margaret NJ. Ross, OF Aberdeen
Wash. candidate for the State Leg
islture, who was in Portland for a
few hours yesterday.
Mrs. Ross, who is the 'WOodrow
Wilson Progressive Democratic can
| d!date in Chehalis County, has orSi
!al ideas OF the sphere that woman
Should occupy in politics and she is
not tlmld about expressing them. In
Iact. sne is making her campaI5 81
along ner own lines, advocating the
theories that she believes should be-
come fundamental parts of the state
government.
"A little more mother influence is
what she would embrace in the legis-
latiye enactmentS.
This mother influence, she believes
"ill find characteristic expression in
Law that would keep no convicts
excepting the hardened criminals IN
the penltentiary. IN this idea she
sympatnizes with Governor West, OF
Oregon, in his prison policies.
Fresh air and good influences,
she declares. will make useful citi
Zens out OF most of the men who are
sent to our prisons. Many OF them
are mere boys, anyway, who have
! taken one misstep. 1t is wrong tC
/ shut them in with the chronic wrong
doers
Good Roads Advocated.
Prisoners should be made to work
on the roads. Next good railroads
sood wagon roads are most essen
| tai to development OF our rural com
luniIies Ii elected | shall advO
late a state highway along the north
bank OF the Columbia between Spo
l,ane and Vancouver.
i favor ate ad in the scientific
I.earIn4 LI iogsed.oil lands atCe'
uuua tide settlers nave established
residences upon them. The state
should advance the money for tbs
work. allowing the owners to repa;
it in ten annual installments."
Mrs. Ross has been a lifelong Dem
ocrat-in theory, anyway-althOugf
she has never been active in poll
tics, maybe that is because she has
been denied the privilege of the bal
lot heretofore Previous to coming
to Aberdeen. two years ago, she was
editor OF the Critic, a wideawake
paper at Sioux Falls. >. d., which cit,
was her home for many years. lr
that position she was able to accom-
plsh much good for the state in rid
ding her home community of unde
sirable public officials.
Two vacancies are to be filled anG
she is the only Democratic candidate
Following the primaries, September
10. she viii begin an active cam
paisn. Although she is a democrat
she does not carry her partisanshil
to extremes. She favored Eryan il
his first TWO campaigns and he woulC
be her preference today Next t(
him she believes La Toilette is the
best fitted man for the Presidency
She has a strong dislike for Roose
welt and therefore is happily consist
ent in her support of Wilson. Sht
believes Wilson will carry the State
of Washington easily.
Mrs. Ross is the mother of 81,
grown up children and considers her
self a living proof of the fact tina
woman need not neglect her homo
OF unseX herself to do her share il
the world OF politics.