The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-09-10
WOMEN IN THICK
Of POLITICAL FIGHT.
WlLLETTE kERSHAW AND MRS.
BORDEN HARTMAN START
CAMPAIGN IN EARNEST.


For thd first time in the history
OF The country professional women
are to be real factors m the political
situation this fall. The latest addi-
tiuu TO the ranks of Nomen'S pOlit
ical activities is the recently organ
lied Professional Womtns Wilson
and Marshall League an organiza-
zion national in its scope, with head
quarters in the Fifth Avenue build
ing, New York.
The organization was founded by
Miss Willette Kershaw, the actress
who did so much for the woman's
suffrage cause while touring the
country two years ago as the lead
ing woman in the country Boy.
Last year George Bronson Howard
wrote for her the suffrage play
"SnCbs' in which she essayed the
leading role.
Miss Kershaw is also chairman of
! the organization committee, which is
composed of ten women grated
from the following professions: two
law, two stage, TWO medical, two
news aper, one representative from
Chid's Welfare association, and one
woman thoroughly familiar with fac
tory and shop conditions through
out the country where women and
children are employed
This committee is in turn assist
ed by an advisory board composed
of national committeeman from each
state. Upon Miss Allyne +. Sheerer
of Oh cago, the national secretary,
has fallen the task of organization.
The New York headquarters under
her leadership has developed into a
political beehive the past week.
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 only women who have thus
far addressed outdoor mass meet
ings on behalf of the Wilson cam
paign. Mrs. Hartman has spoken
at several large meetings in New
York, and on Labor Day Miss Ker-
shaw addressed three thousand fac
tory employees in Philadelphia,
where she opened her new suffrage
play. "Whom Does Helen Belong
toy"
During her two weeks engage
fent in Philadelphia she will dis
tribute literature and buttons at her
various meetings and devote her
specific arguments to the industrial
legislation as it affects women and
children. and the tariff as it affects
the home.
In an interview given out after
her meeting In Philadelphia yester-
day, Miss Kershaw said, "rrrespect-
i've of party affiliations believe
we women should turn heaven and
earth in an effort to Influence the
vote of the man who has the inter
ests of the workingwoman and child
at heart, and when a man already
in office has done so much to fur
ther legislation to this and I believe
he deserves the support of women
everywhere 1t is a crime and
disgrace to this nationto allow great
corporations to fatten on the labor
OF poor half starved children. The
stage to my mind is the most flag
rant example OF this corporate greed
and ! speak from experience. !
played my first juvenile part when
was seven years old, and was cart
ed back and forth over the map in
the next seven years. I had no
childhood When I grew up I vowed
that II could ever help cause
that would abolish child labor I
would consider that my great
achievement in life.
II have watched Governor Wilson's
record very closely He has made
good and all we ask is that intelli-
gent women of the country read
this record and the hand that rocks
the cradle will bear more influ-
ence than the combined efforts of all
the political spell-bfnders in this
country.
81 am not a suffragette, and the