Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-11
CAPITAL GOSSIP HEARD At Washington


Robert N. MeWses.
Bismarck Tribune Washington Bureau.
WASHINGTON, July 11.-WOman
suffragists at the National Capital and
elsewhere throughout the country, are
deeply chagrined over the failure OF
the Republican and Democratic ma
tional convention to present woman
suffrage planks in their respective
party platforms, and now, they are
looking eagerly forward to Colonel
RoOsevelt's third party to give them
a show. They are firmly OF the Opln-
ion that he will see to 1t that they are
catered to, because he has already
placed himself on record as in favor
of it. Many OF them assert that he
will show decided political sagacity
by doing so, because the women In
the suffrage states will vote for him
to a man" in the event Of his standing
pat on his promises to them.
Feeling quite satisfied that further
efforts to induce the two great politi-
cal parties to endorse women suffrage
will prove fruitless until the women
can go to the State and National con.
ventions with plenty of votes behind
them, the leaders of the movement
in Washington declare that they will
do everything possible to have more
States give women the privilege OF
the ballot in order that their cause
may be strengthened. Mrs. Harvey
w. Wiley. the wife of the nations
famous pure food expor. and cham
pion. voices the feeling of her sister.
hood when n says:
1--WE do not condemn the two par.
ties because we realize that the lead
ers OF both of them believed that the
time was not ripe for them to en-.
dorse our forward and decidedly pro.
gressive movement. W. will, hOwev'
er, keep right on plugging away, and
before many years are passed, both
parties will be glad to put in woman
suffrage planks."
Another noted s~uffragiSt, Mrs. D.
Cramer, while deploring the mistake
made by both of the old parties in
their failure to insert a suffrage plank
in their platf1rms",. suggests that "the
old parties had better look out for Col.
Roosevelt's party If It endorses won.
an suffrage, as has been predicted and
is generally believed. With the thou.
sands OF women's votes which are now
cast in every election in the six suf-
frage states, the question is not one
to be ignored. should not be sur
prised to see Col. Roosevelt get large
votes in those States Simply because
of his endorsement of our cause"
Political Troubles.
Although the two big national con-
ventions are over, and both Of them
I have made their choice Of standard.
bearers in Taft and Wilson, the po-
litical waters are greatly disturbed
and a bit muddied by the Roosevelt
movement, so much SO, indeed, that
the wiseacres are in a quandary and
frankly acknowledge their inability to
"see daylight" ahead, and pr02hesy
how the voters are likely to align
themselves. What helps to obscure
the situation is the funny condition
that Observation-Disclosures naIu III
their home. States. II the republi.
cans In the Buckeye State who de.
cHnedl to follow Taft and favored
Roosevelt in their primaries, continue
in the same mad there is some prob.
ability of the formers failure to car
ry Ohio in November. If New Jersey
holds true to it's heretofore staunch
Republicanism, and is mindful of its
thousands of manufactures, fostered
and made prosperous by Protection;
- the New Jerseymen remember Will
sons habit of forgetting his friends
when he has no further use for them;
If the Wilson lectures in Princeton
for SO many years and the books that
Wilson has written with their re-
markable attacks on immigrants and
their descendants, and their equally
remarkable statements on other i'm
portant national subjects come back
to plague him and to disgust them:
and if his riff-for-revenue-only plat
form does not carry weight in Tren-
ton, Newark, Jersey City, and other
industrial towns, there is a POSSIBLE
ity too of his losing his home State.
On of the candidates pins his faith
for success in the ABUNDANT prosperity
evidenced on all SIZES, the other on a
razlng OF the entire tariff schedules.
Then, Roosevelt steps in with his rad
lcal propositions, some of them revo-
l%utionizing n conditions to the ex.
tent Of making judicial decisions the
subject of popular votes. Whether
Taft's claim that the nation is pros
porous through Republican rule, or
Wilson's that the whole people will be
benefited by a wholesale downward
revision, or Roosevelt's that his en-
bryotic platform will knock into
smithereens the high prices for food
stuffs and be a panacea for all of our
alleged troubles of various sorts, the
voters will be better able to determine
after they have given the claims OF
the triumvirate a thorough sitting
through the seive or common sense
and practical experience.
No matter how the situation is view
ed, the fact remains that Roosevelt is
a most disturbing factor, and in any
discussion of the probable outcome
must be taken into consideration. One
of the most ~level-headed Statesmen
in Washington, who has been through
many national campaigns, insists that
Teddy and his supporters are the big
gest element OF doubt ever injected
into any battle for the Presidency
within his recollection. In sizing up
the situation in what are now regard
ed as doubtful States" he says: