Evening star., 1915-01-07
MISS ROBERTA HILL AIDED
PRESIDENTS CAMPAIGN
Spokeswoman for Suffrage Advo-
Gates Swaps Stories With
Prominent officials.
Reminds Chief Executive of His Past
References to Her Sex's Po-
liticaf influence.

Miss Roberta Hill, one of the spokes-
women for the suffrage advocates when
they presented their plea to the Presi-
dent for his support of their resolu-
ton in Congress, at the White House
yesterday. took an active and pro"i-
nent part in the campaign which elect
ed Mr.. wilson She is today swapping
stories with prominent officials IN
Washington with whom she was asso-
ciated during the campaign.
Miss Hill did such good work at the
Wilson headquarters in New YORK DUR
ing the e-nomination campaign that
when the democratic national head
quarters was organized to further the
WILSON, Marshall candidacy she was re-
tanned as. an assistant organizer and
fought right through until the ticket
was elected.
Reminds the President.
In her speech yesterday Miss Hill re-
minded the President of this as her
particular reason for wanting to see
him go on record for suffrage. she
said in part:
Because truth is the perfect defense
| hope you will not misunderStand me
when l say that in the eyes OF the
world today you are the democrat
marty in America Therefore it is only
natural that we democratic women
should come to you in this hour OF our
great need to pray your CONSIDERATION
and help. .,,,
The women who enthusiastically ana ana
loyauv worked for your election leei
with YOU that the laws of this country
have not kept up with the change OF
circumstances in the country. we look
to our party to right the wrongs
suffer The federal government does
not protect a woman's citizenship as IL
protects a mans. A man moves from
one state to another and loses HoliuHe
of his political power. but "o'haI Il Il
who has lived and voted in any one oi
the enfranchised states loses her po-
Iitical rights the moment she steps
across the border into an unenfran-
chised and undemocratic state
Refers to His Speech.
MIR. President, I would not have the
courage to come to you today as
spokesman did I not remember your
speech at Spring Lake, n. j., few
months after your nomination, on the
occasion of the formation of the Wom-
ans Wilson and Marshall League. At
that time you said:
When the last word is said about
politics it is merely the life of all of
us from the point of view of what can
be accomplished by legislation and
the administration of public office
think it is artificial to divide life up
into sections; it is all of one piece.
though you can't attend to all pieces of
it at once.
Influence of Women.
And so when the women who are
in so many respects at the heart OF
life begin to take an interest in poll
tics, then you know that all the lines
of sympathy and intelligence and COM
prehension are going to be interlaced
in a way which they have never been
interlaced before, so that our politics
will be of the same pattern with our
life. This, it seems to me, is devoutly
to be wished.
"And SO when the women come into
politics. they come in to show us all
those little contacts between life and
politics, on account of which ], for
myself, rejoice that they have come to
our assistance: they will be as indis-
pensabie as they are delightful.