New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-04
BY Ida Hustled Harper.

All the Presidential candidates are to
be elected! 1t is difficult for women 10
see how this can be- but the leaders Vt
all the parties, men who know every
| thing that is humanity possible about
politics, who have occult means of learn
| ing just how every man IS going to vote
and who never make a mistake in their
| forecast-each of these great leaders has
set forth in the daily press figures which
cannot lie to prove that the success of
/ his candidate is predestined and fore
I ordained. There is one good thing about
4 this cocksureness-it prevents a vast num-
! Der Of election bets. Usually money
| talks" but just now the party bosses are
doing the talking, and the money-it "des
/ lays low en- SEE muffin" OF course, the
| leaders of the Prohibition party must be
excepted; they haven't had enough am
| bition even to get out and hustle for their
/ eradicate; nor are the Socialists an
rorncing the positive election Of Mr..
| Debs. They are simply claiming a mill
ion votes for him, and declaring that four
/ years from now Democrats and Repub-
! licans will have to combine on a Presi-
1 Dental candidate to beat the one put up
the Progressives, but probably they are
to combine with the Socialists.
AS Women See It.
The part Of women in political cam
/ paigns is largely that Of the onlooker.
/ To be sure, some of them have got into
I /. - to hat
their number compared to the whole body
Of women IS very small. The latter, how
ever, have done more watching and think
| ing in the present campaign than in all
| the past years, and before another takes
place the politicians will hear something
| drop. 1t won't be a bomb, but it will
! have much the same effect on the old
party strongholds Just now they are
bordering over the Saturday night
speeches of the candidates There was
Governor Wilson's. for instance in which
he said: III I knew l could gain the
, Presidency provided would take it with
out the support Of the two houses Of Con-
gress and could have choice in the mat
ter / would decline. for il would put a
man in a position Of knowing what ought
TO be done for the people Of the United
states and longing 10 do it, but being alb
solutely powerless."
This has been exactly the position Of
President Taft during the last two years.
and yet Governor Wilson has attacked
him throughout the campaign because he
has not accomplished all that he set out
to do. Women, of course, have little
reasoning power, but they can't quite see
! the consistency Of this position. To them
/ it seems that if Republicans in order TO
/ rebuke the Teactionaries in the United
States Senate, decide 10 sacrifice President
Taft. they should vote 10 turn not only
| the Presidency but the entire govern
Juent over 10 either the Democratic or
/ Progressive party, with power to keep
itself in office for years. This would he
the only way TO avoid a continuous dead
/ lock in legislation and to secure definite
policy in regard to the business interests
| of the country. It would also be an
altruistic action on the part Of Republi-
cans voluntarily 10 give up the reins or
government and let the opponents drive
for a while.
With the SpeIIbnders.
And then the women We're interested IN
! the speech of Governor Johnson, the
Progressive Vice-Presidential candidate
| last Saturday night, in which he said:
1--WE heard Theodore Roosevelt criticised
/ for using the big stick. but let me tell
you from my own experience that the
man who in a righteous cause isn't ready
TO use a stick or club, or any other
effective weapon, isn't worth his salt az
an executive"
This will be very encouraging 10 those
militant suffragists I'm this country who
| think women ought to go after the ballot
hammer and stones. eve will not only
win a victory in ballots, but in moral
sentiment" he said Were on our toes
and our heads are high in the air. lie
must have been talking about the ballet
/ instead Of the ballot, hut wouldn't II have
I beeu awful If Mary Donnelly or some OF
tho Moosettes had said that? And, by
the way Chairman Hotchkiss was right
when he said they could have their auto
mobile parade, but couldn't blow their
/ horns. That is the business OF the can
didates when they are telling the electors
why they should vote FOR mel Mr..
SuIzer for instanCe-the women Ike him;
/
ba has always been their great and good
frlend-but when Congress is so depend
cnt on him for resolutions and treaties
and things, and when the whole Russian
Empire trembles at his power in that
august body, should he be put into the
comparatively obscure position of mere
Governor OF New York? MY, my, how
glad women ought to be that they are
not called upon to decide these vast in
ternational questions!
The Candidates on Suffrage.
| Hare e another perplexing problem;
r1a. q, wife a right to try to have her
h,,sberd vote her way, or. indeed are
tho women Of a family justified In asking
,his NJ the men? Hasn't every man