Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-22

goodly n m b er OF MOSES H. CLAPP
honorary degrees from colleges and univer-
stiles. She is between 40 and so years old.
and is one of the hardest workers In the
country. Early and late she is busy with
the important tasks which go with her office.
From the West Senator Clapp is expected to
come to speak at the meeting tonight The
BLACK Eagle Of the Northwest" is one Of his
political appellations-picturesque enough for
a man of his masculnity of appearance and
manner. He was born in the State from
which, according to an after-dinner story
very many great men have come, and the
greater the faster. Moses Edwin Capp left
Indiana when he was a youngster, the fam
lily moving to Wisconsin. His father was
a logger. Young Moses attended the public
schools of Wisconsin, later entering the law
school of the State University, from which
he was graduated in 1873 He began to prac-
tice at Hudson, Wisconsin, and has been
member of the bar of st. Paul since 1891.
Three times he was elected Attorney Cen
eral of Minnesota. From his youth he had
a considerable reputation as an orator, and
in all respect to the matter and manner of
his speeches the people likened him to the
eagle when they came to find a nickname.
Cor sobriquet, If you wish) for the rising
young attorney and politician. For fourteen
years ne mas served IN the OnlteQ states
Senate. In politics he has always been a
progressive-and always under the party des-
ignation of Republican. At the time of the
break in 1912 he was quite as heartily in
sympathy with political progressivism as
any of the men who helped in the formation
of the new and short-lived party headed by
Colonel Roosevelt. Ask him in conversation
IL he is Progressive and he will answer,
"Yes," for the capital letter does not appear
in oral speech. But when he writes down
his political preference" 1t is Republican"
He is ga years old, is married and has two
children living, a son and a daughter.
Two Kinds of "Protectionism"
Senator Clapp is strong for protection. He
is protectionist on the issue of woman suf-
frage. He himself states the matter thus:
"The time is inevitable when the American
people will confer upon American woman
hood the only peaceable weapon known to
free government for her own protection, for
the protection of her property and the pro-
lection Of her children, and that is the
ballot"
But there is another theory of protection
on which he has some definite views The
man. the husband, is supposed to be the pro-
tector of his household; of his wife to make
the matter palmer. There are thousands
OF wives" he believes "who would be better
off in every particular were they deprived
OF the protection given them by their hus-
bands" That. however, he considers a very
painful subject. He prefers to leave it alone,
but cannot refrain from occasionally paying
his compliments to the assumption that the
husband is ideal in all ways and, therefore
entitled to do all the voting. In other words
the family does not get the representation
1t should have in the male voter. To this
extent the protection theory is unsound
To the assertion that women, as a rule
would vote with their husbands and their
fathers, he replies: "Oh, that may be so, but
you are again wasting your time along the
edges OF a very grave question No matter
how she uses 1t, the right to vote belongs
to woman. Property cannot be withheld
from legal heir because of a fear that II
would be employed imprudentIy" Senator
clapp, therefore, does not believe that the
way women have used the ballot or may use
1t has anything TO do with the matter. with
him woman suffrage is simply a matter Of