Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-10-12
WALL ST. WOMEN
TOUR FOR HUGHES
"Silk- Stocking, Poodle Dog Bri-
gade" Carries Doctrine of
PlutoCracy to West.
MAKES SUFFRAGE PRETENSE
Many Of Party on Train de Luxe Re-
pudiated by Leaders Of Woman's
Movement - Paid Speakers
to Do Talking.

Wall street is too busy harvesting
Democratic prosperity to go campaign
ing-but it is sending it's womenfOlk.
The greatest aggregation of wealth and
social distinction ever represented by
fuss, feathers and femininity left New
York on Monday, Oct. 2. by special
train de luxe, to tell their sisters
of the West how to VOTE Many
of these women, claiming to be equal
suffrage workers. are repudiated by
leaders of that movement.
Stopping at Albany, Utica and SYRIA
cuse on their first day, the itinerary
takes the wOmens campaign train
through the principal cities of the
north route across the continent and
brings them back through Colorado,
Nebraska, Missouri and Kentucky, a
tour lasting until November 4. The
expenses are paid by and the tour is
conducted under the auspices of the
WOmen'S Committee of the National
Hughes Alliance.
innocent and harmless enough, until
one examines the personnel of the or
ganiZatiOn and discovers that it repre-
sents the feminine side of the organ
lied and MOrganiZed wealth of Wall
street
The treasurer of the Women's Com
mittee is Mrs. Mary Hartman Rum
sey, daughter of the late Edward III.
Hartman, railroad magnate and ''prac-
teal man" of the days when Theodore
Roosevelt received campaign funds
from the CROOKED business" which
political eXigency later led him to
denOunce.
These Provide the Funds
With Mrs. Rumsey on the Finance
Committee are Mrs. Robert Bacon,
whose husband was translated from
the House of Morgan to be ROOseyelt's
Assistant Secretary Of State, and later
Ambassador to France; Mrs. Ber-
nard III. Ridder, wife of one of the
prOprietors of the New York Stats
Zeitung, leader of the German propa-
ganda against President Wilson; Mrs.
w. FL. Croker, widow of the Cali
fornia mining and railroad multimil-
liOnaire.
On the Train Fund Committee are
Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim, of the Smell
ter Trust; Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
representing inherited millions of rail-
road capital; Mrs. Harry Payne Whit
ney, daughter Of the late Cornelius
Vanderbilt; Miss Maude Wetmore, of
the wealthy Rhode Island family of
that name; Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Long
worth, daughter of Theodore Roose-
welt, whose husband is Nicholas Long
worth, in Congress from Ohio.
Many Of the junketers who are 60
ing along to do the speaking are pro-
fessional women, who could not afford
the luxury of special trains nor the
diversion of campaigning without pay.
But back of them, with their money
and the glamour that attaches to their
gilded names, are the women standing
as financial sponsors for this greatest
society show that ever was put on
wheels.
Some of these wives and daughters
of the superrich will go along on this
mission and with their presence, if
not with their oratOry, will warn the
women of the West-WhO are already
vOters-that their country cannot be
Saved" unless the women cast their
vote for the candidate of plutocracy.
The letterhead from Republican
campaign headquarters gives only the
names of the Train Fund Committee
as above, but besides them there is an
additional committee in charge of this
feature of the Hughes campaign.
Others in on the Junket.
On this committee appear in adj
ditiOn to the foregoing members, the
following:
Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury, whose hus-
band is a Philadelphia partner Of J. z.
Morgan & Co.. Mrs. III. O. Havemeyer,
wife of the Sugar Trust and Standard
Oil magnate; Mrs. Phoebe Hearst,
mother of William Randolph Hearst,
owner of millions in American mines
and Mexican plantations; Mrs. 0. III.
2. Belmont, who has undertaken to
raise half a million dollars to defeat
President Wilson; Mrs. John Hays
Hammond, wife of the multimillion-
aire mining man; Mrs. Mary Dreier,
New York society leader, Of a wealthy
German family with strong antipathy
to President Wilson.
A leading attorney Of Pocatello,
Idaho, writing to the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, says:
II read with deep interest of the
preparations of the Silk Stocking,
Poodle Dog, Feminine Brigade that is
soon to start on it's million dollar spe-
cial across the continent to awaken
the enthusiasm of the mothers AMI
women who carry the burden of our
national greatness on their shoulders,
RI yoto for fhair idol HUGHES