The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-10-30
The Woman Voter.


this year, and she is giving some OF the
candidates restless hours and sleepless
nights.
The question in the minds of the
campaign managers is: How will this
army of women vote on party lines|
But women who are outside of the
pale. the Thoughtful ones are interested
in another phase of the question:
How will these women make up their
minds as to the best way to vote
what process of reasoning will open up
the path before their feet?
1t is an interesting query and the
answer would have much weight with
other women who are lowering on
the suffrage brink If this big pres
idential vote is to be cast merely for
the novelty of the thing, and if the
political color is to be decided by
the dictates examples or words-ot
men relatives; if there is no thought
under the ballot, just a herding
together in community drifts, then
woman's suffrage is going to get
what the prize fighter call black eye
This presidential vote is, in way, a
test of the efficacy or woman's suf-
frage 1t is going to show whether
the mass of woman voters are merely
moved by a really worth while
impulse.
A woman of one of the western
states where the franchise is a new
acquisition, will cast her first vote
next month, and it will be for Wilson.
Asked why she has dropped her pol
itical anchor in the Democratic waters,
she answered promptly:
On the subject of Mexico Mr..
Hughes is vague, so vague that |
cannot be sure he does not favor
intervention therefore | prefer Mr..
Wilson. On the subject of the
European war he is as indefinite,
but he conveys an intimation of
greater aggressiveness, which makes
me wary. On other issues he seems
to me sometimes wrong, as on the
issue of protection, sometimes right
but probably powerless, as an economy
of administration Appointment of
experts to office, the federal admend'
ment for woman suffrage. On the
other hand although | cannot follow
Mr. Wilson in all things, feel pro.
foundly grateful to him for his wise
conduct of the affairs of the nation
through several difficult and serious
crises. and / believe that on most
questions of foreign and domestic
policy he is right For all these
reasons ! decide to cast my first
presidential vote for Woodrow
Wilson.
Here is a woman who has taken her
enfranchisement as a duty to her
country, and who will not discharge
it lightly or unthinkingly She has
studied both sides of he campaign
issues. and has chosen what she con
siders the better part,
Are there many women like her
throughout the equal suffrage state?
II so. then the balloting next month
will be along comprehensive lines that
cannot fail to be helpful in the gen.
eral advancement Of the country,
no matter who gets them
An intelligent, thoughtful woman's
vote would mean much, not only in
help to decide the coming election.
but in convincing the country that
women as a rule are ready for the
ballot, and that their share in the
country's politics will be earnest and
helpful.
The woman voter will be next on
trial in the court Of public opinion next
month as she has never been before
since Wyoming came into the Union
with her men and women on the same
suffrage platform. - Commercial Ap
peal