New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-21
ASK FARMERS WIVES
TO STAND BY TAFT
First Plan of State Chairman OF
Woman's Department of
Republican Committee.
PARTY HAS MADE PROGRESS
Mrs. John Francis Yawger Says
Members Have Always Kept
Their Word-Glad Rad
icals Are Out.

\ direct appeal to tho farmers wife -
the first plan formulated by the Ne"
York state committee OF the woman
department of the Republican National
Committee, which yesterday opened It's
headquarters in the same office with the
woman's national committee.
Mrs. John Francis Yawger, who is state
chairman, spent all day planning her
campaign and has already got In touch
with the mems state committee ana the
county chairmen OF New York's siXty-one
counties and obtained from them lists OF
women who can take charge of the work
In the various counties.
There are 1900 farmers wives in this
state who belong TO a circle of reading
clubs. and we shall be able TO reach
them directly" said Mrs. Yawger.
I'VE will prove TO them that the high
cost OF living question fits I'm with their
household economies and that IT Is up
TO them TO indorse a party that VIII IN
vestigate the present trouble, which be-
lieve is due to the overproduction Of gold
and uneconomic distribution. That party
is the Republican party.
ne ltIlI Has l'NIIIbb w w WIN wv
disproportion between wages and the
price Of commodities. ] apply 10 1t that
old slogan used against Bryan-16 10 l
means nothing 10 atc.' That's what low
crng the tariff means, with It's consequent
disruption OF business and lowering or
wages-'nothing to ate
I'm for the Republican party because
It stands for principles and not person
alltles. and I'm for Taft because I think
more has been done toward real progress
I'm the Sixty-frst Congress than has been
done before in any other Congress. Take,
for example the express company regula-
ton laws and the creation of a postal
savings bank.
THE opposition to Taft IS due to lgno-
rance for the most part. People haven't
kept their eyes open, and mighty few
OF them can tell you OF the important bills
he has signed, and, quite as important.
those perncious ones he has vetoed.
AS for Taft's not having declared him
self for woman suffragc-thsts not up TO
him. It's matter OF state politics. We
women have cot to use our influence 10
have representatives elected who will
vote for our bills in the state Legislature.
And Republican men always keep their
word When the suffrage bill came up at
Albany AT least one Democratic represen-
tatlve who was pledged to vote for II con-
fessed that he was sitting out in the park.
because he didn't feel we'll. when the
bill was before the House.
DO We women know how 10 20 10
work? Wen. there is a man who lives
I'm my ncighborhoOd who is a RADICAL
object 10 the name Progressive for the
r. Il. party-who asked me the same ques-
ton ! said TO him: I have seen YOU
often In tho stationer's shop around the
corner, buying tobacco and papers. What
have you done 10 convert that man 10
didn't even know whether the man had a
vote or not. But | had Leen in there
weeks ago, found out that he had, but
had never used it. and got him TO enroll
I'm the Republican party"
Mrs Yawger is going 10 speak next
Monday night to the Young Mems Taft
League. in tho Eth Assembly District,
whore her husband is running for state
Senator.
At the close OF the interview she said:
The Republican party was founded IN
a moral issue. and "" believe in evolution
aud not revolution. We arc sorry for tho
disruption In the party. but glad, too, 10
have our skirts freed from the rcvolu-
tionsts'