Evening journal., 1916-07-24
WOMEN Of \. !. NOW
factor IN CAMPAIGN
Debut Seen in Choice OF
Two on Body of Hughes
Alliance
ACTION MARKS
EPOCH in STATE

for President.
Two women. DR.. Katherine B. Da-
vis. chairman OF the Municipal Board |
Of Parole. and Mrs. George w. Wick
ersham, wife of the former United
States Attorney General, have been
named members of the executive
committee of the New York State
Hughes Alliance. a mems organiza- !
ton. Such a thing has never hap
pened before, except in a suffrage
State. or a committee Of the Pro
gressive party II marks an epoch
The choice signifies woman's com
ing-out party in New York politics.
and is being reckoned with by Repub-
licans and Democrats. by Progress
sives and Prohibitionists alike. Not
one leader Of any party has attempt
ed to deny womans importance in the
campaign.
Hughes Receives Women.
Charles E. Hughes, Republican
candidate for President. has received
committees Of women concerning the
Susan r. Anthony amendment, and
has predicted that they will be salts
fed with his stand William G. Nc
Adoo, Secretary Of the Treasury, has
taken time this busy week. to near
the women through, and to express
the Democratic interest in what they
have to say. It is also reported that
President Wilson is giving the MAJ
ter more or less thought
Woman is a political debutante, and
certain. great men high in office or
in hope. are crowding around her
uuarrelling for the ninety-one cleo
toral votes she holds.
All over the city signs that women
are taking a profound interest in TINS
campaign. the first in which they
have ever been a decided factor, are
10 be seen. Clubs and organizations
of every kind are entering the con-
test.
So many women are coming INTO
the Woman's Roosevelt League IN us
campaign for Hughes that they are
being lined up in groups. doctors IN
one authors. business women. artists
and rchitects in others. "Whos 1of
Hughes?" is their slogan, and they
~Rxpect TO have 1000 members by the
first of September. according TO Miss
Alice Carpenter, president OF the or
ganization
81 feel that must accept" cabled
hack Miss Anne Morgan, from Parls'
asked to be chairman Of the execu-
tive committee.
eyes. I think women are tremen-
p douslv more significant in this than
thew have been in any former cam
naign" Miss Carpenter said yester-
dav "Our power has been almost
doubled since the last election.
There was equal vigor IN the room
next door at the Hotel Astor' mead
quarters of the Women's Commlttee
of the National Hughes Alliance. MISS
Frances A Kellor. chairman of the
organization. is probably as busy a
woman as can be found in the United
states lust now. To orsanize the
women of the country into a lineup
for Hughes is the rather stupendous
duty appertaining to her title.
at is our object 10 have 100000
women come out for Hughes by Sep
+ember j" was the word given out II
the strenuous little Office yesteday
'"Tbere will be a special committee o.
1000" -
Branch organizations are beinl
formed in all the cities and in all TIT
states. ANY woman anywhere in th'
Trnited States may affiliate directl,
with the organization. Any twenty
five women in the community Will D.
notified that they may organize in
local branch. and obtain a charter.
Object TO Elect Hughes.
The election Of Hughes is the sin
gle object of the alliance. and to be
long TO it does not signify a belief i
ANYTHING except Hughes. The aim
10 keep the national point of view 4
everything sectional or racial name
of sub-organizations. as the Wester
Hughes Alliances, or the Frenc
Hughes Alliance. will be permitted
The organization includes many VIC
men prominent in society in thi
city.
In the headquarters OF the Cor
gressional Union, at Is West Forty
first street. its leaders needed no ir
formation concerning the importanc
of women in the present campaign
They had seen it coming they declared
A slender little woman with BIZ
eager eyes, MISS AliCe dui' NH'Ai
man of the national organization
offered reasons for the change S
thick and fast that one had to liste
carefully to keep up with her
"The reason is that over 10000
women are able to vote in this ele'
ton" she said. I'VE have double
our importance since the last eie'
tion. The men know the power tn;
the women have. and, what is NOR
they know that the women know
II is wonderful to think of havin
women Representatives in bot
houses. at last"
Miss Paul has conferred with E'
ward Fileno, the Democratic orgai
izer. who professed himself great
interested in what the women ha
TO say. Mrs Mary Beard and Mr.
Richard Boeckel have presented the
arguments to Mr.. Hughes. who heal
them through with the same flatterin
attention. Mrs. William Kent, wi
of the chairman of the Wilson Ind
pendent League, has laid the matt
before Mr. McAdoo, and explains
that upon the attitude of the variol
party leaders depended the vote
the women.
With the Congressional Union
affiliated the National Woman's Pa
ty. whose chairmen and vice chai
men are leaders in suffrage State
On August 10. IL and ~ there will
a conference of this party at Co
orado Strings and il is then tn