The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-10-25

w Saturday, Oct. 26, the most da ring
plan that they have attempted in
the presidential contest to which
Ley have contributed so many origina!
IDEAS 1t is their first dip " into practical
politics and they want to wind up their caui
paign in a whrl of glory.
In behalf of the Progressive party, they
are to celebrate Founders day" Which
means that Oh the last Saturday in October
they are going to sell in every city and town
III the country Bull Moose badges, struck
OF as a permanent reminder Of the foundin;
of the new party. They chose the date, too
partly to honor Col Roosevelt, whose birth
day falls on the following day.
This stunt " may sound easy, but it is
SO big scheme that the men politicians
never even thought of attempting it. No
political or other orga MIA ton has ever tried
10 get the whole u. s. A. into u single ceie.
bration on u single day. 1t has looked like
, too much work.
The Progressive women would never have
dreamed % trying it i'll the early days Of tne
campaign. But they tried out their hand Ill
all SORTS Of lesser political Jobs and touu4
that after all there was no hidden secret ia
them that allowed the men only to 40 1helu
First they opened up the Bun Moose
stores: In these little snups, started here
and there In the downtown streets OIL luy
larger cities, they sold charter member &c.
uncates IN the new party, and the gay little
progressive STAMPS. over TIE couu.er,tou
they disposed oi tue Vi oose pins anu IA , Oh.
1nousanus OF copies VI the r'rogressl,e plu,
torm aud Jane Addams convention speecn
1hey invented the = bandauna bonnet.
1hls dashing little affair was mace III, =.
Dandanna dkerchlef wound aroun.
tnree cornered hat and caught up with u bu,,
moose cockade. They held " Moosette bans
u which paying guests uauceu spec,u.
oances 10 the tune OF Progressive campal.,
"uS1c. 1hey organized political meeun.>
NJ which women speakers were 1i,e man,
attraction, and they did not hesita,. ?,
shoulder their share OF the work of r.,si,,
money for the campaign fund. rb,s roo -
lnooSn they have always been called 1n..
spending sex"
Anen tney mad their great idea for t,.
"inoup OF their campaign. The thought o5
u came nrst to Mrs. Medill Mccormick ons
morning IN her apartment ON the Lake Sbor.
oflVe IN Chicago. Now, Mrs. Mccormick
Is daughter OF the late Mark Hanna
1 Is family characteristic to act promptly
on good inspiration. So she took th train
" ave-" 1ork and presented her Founders,
Jay scneme to Senator Joseph n. Dixo,
chairman OF the national Progressive com
mittee' TO hiram w. johnson, and to Osc.r
ntraus. All three men received the idea o.,
Enthusiastically and she was made cbairm..
OF the enterprise Oh the SPOT
Then the real work started Io..ou
sent 10 every Progressive newspaper in tbs
.oan'fy ASKING Its support of the plan. and
not one OF them refused to help. Other I.,-
.ers went out to every Progressive sta,.
CHAIRMAN, asking his co6pera ton. and H.
response was the same. But the main wor,
was zone oy writing directly to Prosressir-
women IN every state in the union.
- men want to find out " how womsn
ooins IN their first national entrance in+,
practicai politics they ought to read sonaos
.ne ietters OF reply that came into Mrs Ar
Oornick omces in the Hotel La Saua ~;
cago. Most OF them said not, What do VA,
want US to do:' but We have ALREADY a.
canned and started doing it." In ten dars
,oe instance, every one Of 1O2 counties !,
.iiinois nad Founders day comm;t+aa
formed and hard at work orga nizino ua,
tor the work of selling the bad on 90, o..
There Is only one thing REMAINING 800,
MRS Mccormick, at her headquarters dest
tnat VIII be necessary to make Fo,ndar.,
oay brilliant success. We appeal to tho
women all over the land to come out IN +b.+
oay and help sell the badges. For tba +;rs+
.e great ma tional party has taken women
Yfo IL
.n'o IT'S councils and asked them to helm in
.'s ca" palgn, not as auxiliaries,' but as act
i've party members. We have accented tba,
invitation because of what the pa rtv offer.
TO women and children, and now we WANT,
END our campaign with this one big coptribn-
ton to it's cause
don't know where the women have
come out most splendidly to help us. In the
east the New York women have done won.
GERS. In the west the volunteers came in
overwhelming numbers and in the south it is
most interesting to find that the women.
young and old. did not seem to hesitate a
minute ABOUT accepting our call for help"
Mrs. Amos Pinchot of New York has been
national chairman Of the woman's finance
committee. Mrs. A. Gordon Norrie has had
charge of Founders day in New York CITY.
Mrs. Everett Colby, wife of the reform
leader in New Jersey, has been active in the
woman's Progressive work at headquarters
in the Hotel Manhattan. So has Mrs. Elon
Huntington Hooker. wife of the national
Progressive treasurer.
Most Of the Founders day work has been