Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-19

tives. And the date will be chiseled upon
the enduring tablets of history.
Like most women who have earned
tablets in the worlds hall of fame, Miss
Rankin is petite and like most petite wom-
en- she is dynamic and like most dynamo
women she is brunette.
She is none of your school WON
ems rights" agitators of the comic car
ICONS of a generation ago. with mar
whacked tight over her ears ana done
tight in a French pea behind her ears
Instead, she is a dainty bit of femininity
who is quite popular in ballroom as
at a political meeting and who has fox
trotted her way into the hearts OF many
of the male voters of Montana. When
she went out to win the votes OF the MIN
ers she attended their dance halls ana
with them tripped the light fantastic toe.
She won them all.
She is an expert bread-baker. she
makes her own clothes, and she loves
little children with a love that lnspireo
a special child-welfare plank In the
platform on which she stood for elec-
ton.
She was born on a ranch in western
Montana Her father is OF scotch oe-
scent, one of the sturdy pioneers Oh
the early Cos, who went to Montana IN
quest of the great, new, unknown coun
try. There were four chlidreh anu
Jeanette was the second.
one of her brothers. Wellington. a
LAWYER of Helena, is now being soou
naturetly twitted by his friends. re
ran for Congress a few years aso' And
o;cfn
he has another sister to cope win
Edna. She has just graduated IRON,
college and is preparing TOT poiilie"i
career. hoe had all
L,nde NJ education. After finishing at
the public schools in Missouri sne Me ~
with her brothers to the UNIVERSITY %
Montana where she has taken post-
Ina+a daeree Later she took spe-
e,aI curses in the New York school,
Of Philanthropy and the University "a
Washington. c.reer as a
socia1 worker like Jane Adams ana
lula Lathrop. and all OF TINS sluLs
was needed to properly nj hel .o' o,-ar
work. After college days Were W. e.,
she began earning her own living III
social work Naturally she was
stanch suffragist. and it was soon ols-
covered that she had gift OIL ora.ory
of which none of her Montana slseei
Could boast. The state was just on
the eve Of a big fight for suffrage ana
the women needed general
Miss Rankin's genius for organiza-
ton soon being recognized, she was put
in command. For five days and nlghts
she silent almost as little as did Napo-
leon during his great campaigns ana
she put Montana in the Suffrage col
umn. Shortly afterward, when she
walked into the national suffrage con-
yention at Nashville. the nan roared
with deafening applause
When asked why she thought a wom-
an should be in Congress, Miss Rankin
gave one of her charming smiles.
nodded emphatically and said: We'll.
Won see it was this way. Several years
ago. during one session of Congress.
100000 was appropriated for the STUDY
of fodder for hogs. and at the same
session only 100000 was appropriated
for the study of the needs of the ma
tons children. If the hogs of the ma
ton are ten times more important to
men than the children of the nation. it
is high time that the women should
make their influence felt in Congress.
I'VE have several hundred men in
Congress to take care of the nations
tariff. the irrigation projects and the
hogs But there is not a single woman
to take care Of the children"
Miss Rankin also takes the attitude
that prohibition is great measure
which will protect the home and chill
dren, and that is why. although run
ming on a republican ticket she put
the state and national prohibition
plank in her PLATFORM
Man candidates were trying to evade
the issue, but when Miss Rankin put the
prohibition plank in her platform and
talked of the legislative work she could
do in an effort to get legislation for
nationwide prohibition other candidates
had to get into line" with hei.
In the primaries Miss Rankin defeated
seven man candidates. and had Il plural
ity of 1000 over her nearest opponent
but she does not take a particle of credit
for the achievement She gives it all
to the women
"Don't you feel elated over what you
have accomplished" Miss Rankin is
asked daily.
This was not my campaign" she an
swers The splendid vote / received
and the hearty reception which / have
been given throughout the state during
the campaign are simply demonstrations
of the determination of Montana women
to have a woman represent them in
Congress.
You see our women are fighting for
a principle new idea in representa-
tion-and they stood together behind my
candidacy DtCduSe theJ ueilcN CIV hiide ~
meant something bigger and better than
lust sending Jeanette Rankin to Con-
gress I surely am grateful to the women
for their loyal support. and l deeply APP
preciate the honor and the responsibility
Of their having chosen me as their can
didate.'
Miss Rankin is anxious to get to work
She realizes how much there is for
woman to do in Congress. and she is i'm
pattent to be up and doing"
Miss Rankin is not a stranger in the
halls of Congress. She has a thorough
knowledge of work there gained through
her experience as a suffrage lobbyist in
the two sessions between 1913 and 1915,
whom as a member of the congressional
committee of the National American
woman Suffrage Association she sIen
months at Washington in the interests
of the federal amendment. AS field sec
r.tsrv of the National Suffrage Associa-
ton she was sole lobbyist in the New
work. legislature when the votes for
women'' question was up in that state
cha also had charge of the suffrage bill
In Delaware, Florida, North Dakota and
New Hampshire, and did work in a num-
Der of other states
All this has given her a rare insight
into the workings of the mind political.
All this has sharpened her for the