Williams news., 1916-10-19
"SiIk- Stocking, Poodle Dog Brl- qade" 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.

Democratic prosperity to go campaign ing-but it is sending its womenfolk. The greatest aggregation of wealth ana social distinction ever represented by fuss, feathers and femininity left New York on Monday, Oct. ?, 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 Syra- | cuse on their first day, the itinerary takes the women's campaign train through the principal cities of the 1 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.
 "Womens 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 ized 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 H. Hartman, railroad magnate and ''prac- tical 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. Der nard H. Ridder, wife of one of the proprietors of the New York Staats 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, representing inherited millions of rail- road cal |; 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 iunketers 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 of the super-rich 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 ad- dition- to the foregoing members, the following:
 Mrs. E. T. StOtesbury, whose hus- band is Philadelphia partner of J. P. Morgan & Co.,. Mrs. H. 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. O. H. P. 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:
 "I read with deep interest of the preparations of the Silk Stocking Poodle Dog, Feminine Brigade that is soon to start on its million dollar spe- cial across the continent to awaken the enthusiasm of the mothers and women who carry the burden of our national greatness on their shoulders to vote for their idol, Hughes.
 Tt will not be difficult for the rank and file of the common people to see the hypocrisy of this movement"