The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1916-10-20
WALL ST. WOMEN
TOUR FOR HUGHES
"SiIk-Stocking, Poodle Dog Bril-
gade" Carries Doctrine of
PIutocracy 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.

to Do Talking.
Wall street is too busy harvesting
Democratic prosperity to go campaign
| ing-but 1t is sending its womenfolk
The greatest aggregation of wealth ane
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 women's 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.
"Women's Hughes Alliance" sounds
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
sew daughter of the late Edward FL.
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 Roosevelt's
Assistant Secretary of State, and later
Ambassador to France; Mrs. Ber-
nhrd H. Ridder, wife of one ~ the
.proprietors of the New York Stats
Zeitung, leader of the German propa-
ganda against President Wilson; Mrs.
w. H. Crocker, 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,
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 Reose-
velt whose husband is Nicholas Long
worth. in Congress from Ohio.
Many of the junketers who are go
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
IF the super-rich will go along on this
mission and with their presence, if
not with their oratory, will warn the
of the west-who are already
their country cannot be
saved" unless the women cast their
7ote for the candidate of plutocracy.
The letterhead from Republican
headquarters gives only the
names of the Train Fund Committee
IS above, but besides them there is an
additional committee in charge of this
eature of the Hughes campaign.
Others In on the Junket.
On this committee appear in adj
itiOn to the foregoing members. the
GLOWING:
Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury, whose hus-
and is Philadelphia partner of j. 2.
forgan & Co.; Mrs. Fl. o. Havemeyer,
fife of the Sugar Trust and Standard
Vii magnate; Mrs. Phoebe Hearst,
lother of William Randolph Hearst,
wner of millions in American mines
nd Mexican plantations; Mrs. o. II.
: Belmont. who has undertaken to
aise half a million dollars to defeat
resident Wilson; Mrs. John Hays
hammond, wife of the multimillion-
Ire mining man; Mrs. Mary Dreier,
lew York society leader, of wealthy
erman family with strong antipathy
, President Wilson.
A leading attorney of PocatellO,
laho, writing to the Democratic Ma
onal Committee, says:
II read with deep interest of the
of the Silk Stocking,
oodle Dog, Feminine Brigade that Is
ION to start on its million dollar spe- 81
al across the continent to awaken 81
le enthusiasm of the mothers and e.
omen who carry the burden of our e
,tional greatness on their shoulders, :,
vote for their idol, Hughes. p
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