The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-10
WOMEN IN THICK
 OF POLITICAL FIGHT.
Hartman Start Campaign In Earnest.

For the first time in the history o1 the country women are to be real fac tors in the political situation this Fall. The latest addition to the ranks of women's political activities is the recently organized Professional Wo- mems Wilson and Marshall League ' an organization national in its scope, with Headquarters in the Fifth Ave- nue Building, New York.
 The organization was founded by Miss WilIette Kershaw, the actress who did so much for the Womenss suffrage cause while touring the coun- try two years ago as the leading wo- George Bronson E1owa rd4 wrote for her the suffrage play .tSnobs" in which she essayed the leading role.
 Miss Kershaw is also Chairman of composed of ten women drafted from the following professions: two law, two stage, two medical, two newspa- per, one representative from the women thoroughly familiar with fac- tory and shop conditions throughout the country where women and cnit- dren are employed.
 This Committee is in turn assisted by an Advisory Board composed of Ma tional Committeeman from each State. Upon Miss Allyne F.. Sheerer of Chi cago, the National Secretary, has fall len the task of organiza ton: The New York Headquarters under her leader ship has developed. into a political bee hive
 Miss Kershaw is the first woman of the League to take the stump. She and Mrs. Borden Hartman, the New York Society Leader, are in, fact the addressed outdoor mass meetings on behalf of the Wilson campaign. y Mrs. Hartman has spoken iat several large meetings in New York, and on Labor Day Miss Kershaw addressed three thousand factory employees in Phila- delphia, where she opened her new Suffrage play, Whom does Helen be-
 During her two weeks engagement in Philadelphia she will distribute lit erature and -buttons-at her various ments to industrial legislation it affects women and children, and the tariff as it affects the home. s
 In an interview given out after her shaw said -tIrrespectivea, of party af fliations," believe women should turn heaven and earth in an effort to influence the vote of the man who has the interests of the zworlzingwornan and child at heart. and when a man already in office has done so much to further legislation to this end, believe he deserves the support of wo- men everywhere. It Is crime and disgrace to- this nation to allow great corporations to fatteri on the labor of poor, half-starved children, The stage to my mind is the most fragrant. ex- ample of this corporate greed. and I speak from experience. played my first juvenile part whenSsI was seven years old, and was carted back and forth all over the map in the next seven years I had no childhoods could ever help a. cause that would abolish child. labor Il woild consider that my great achievement in life S
 T have watched GoHernor Wilson's record very closely. He has made good, and all we ask is that intelli1 gent women of the country read this record and the hand that rocks the cradle will bring to bear more inf1u4; ence than the combined efforts of all the political spell-binders in the coun- try f { S
 am not suffragette! and the wo- man in oir organization are not V ork- ing for the ballot just now. That will come later. I have influenced audiences all my life, but the only audience we want the average won- an to influence in this campaign is the one opposite her at the breakfast ta ble.