Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1912-09-13
WOMEN IN THICK
OF POLITICAL Fight

political situation this fall. The
latest addition TO the ranks of
women's political activities is the
recently organized Professional
Women's Wilson and Marshall
League" al organization national
in its scope. with headquarters in
the Fifth Avenue Building. New
York.
The organization was founded by
Miss Willette Kershaw. the actress
who did so much for the women's
suffrage cause while touring the
country two years ago as the lead
ing woman in the Tine Couniry
Boy" LAST year George Bronson
Howard wrote for her the suffrage
play "Snob" IN which she essayeG
the leading rlle.
Miss KerShaw is also chairman
Of the organization committee
which is composed of ten women
drafted from the following pro
fessions. two Law. two stage. two
medical. two newspaper, one re-
preventative from Child's Welfare
Association. and one woman
thoroughly familiar with factory
and shop conditions throughout tire
country where women and CHILDREN
= employed.
This committee IS in turn assisted
By an Advisory Board composed OF
National Committeeman from each
state. Upon Miss AlIyne z.
Sheerer Of Chicago. the National
Secretary. mas fallen the task Of
Organization. The New York
Headquarters under her leadership
has Developed into q political bee
hive in the past week.
Miss Kershaw is the first woman
Of the League to take the stump
She and Mrs. BVrden Hartman,
the New York society leader. are
in fact the only two women wtU
have thus far addressed outdoor
mas meetings on behalf Of the
Wilson campaign. Mrs. Hartman
has spoken TO several large meetings
in New York and on Labor Day
Miss Kershaw addressed three
thousand factory employees in
Philadelphia, where she Upeaed her
new suffrage play. Whom does
Helen belong to-"
During her two week engage
ment in Philadelphia she will
distribute literature nd buttons at
Ael various meetings and devote
her specific arguments 10 the in
dustrial legislation as it affects
women and children, and the tariff
as it effects the home.
In an interview given out after
her meeting in Philadelphia Miss
kershaw said, irrespective of
party affiliations | believe we
women should turn heaven and
earth in an effort to influence the
vote of the man who has the i'll
terests Of the working women and
child at heart, and when a man
already in office has done SCI much
10 further legiilation TO this end. |
believe he deserves the support of
women everywhere. 1t is a crime
and a disgrace to this nation to
allow great corporations to fatten
on the labor of poor half-starved
children. The stage to my mind is
the most fragrant example IF this
corporate greed, and | speak from
experience. ! played my first
juvenile part when | was seven
years old. and was carted back and
forth all over the map in the next
seven years. | had no childhood.
When ] grew up | vowed that IL |
could ever help a cause that would
abolish child labor | would con-
slider that my great achievement
in life.
have watched Governor Wilson's
record very closely. He has made
good, and all we ask is that ~iutelli-
gent women of the country read
his record and the hand that
rocks the cradle will bring to bear
more influence than the combined
efforts of ali the political spell.
binders.in this country.
! am not a suffragette, and TIE
women in our organization arc not
working for the ballet just now.
That will come later. ! have in
huenced audiences all ms life. but
the only audience We want the
women IN Influence in THE