Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-17
UNDER FALSE PRETENSES

According to the morning paper in Portland those
women on the Golden special did not to Oregon to
tell how to vote but only to ask them to help those
who did not yet have the ballot What they did tell then
however how to vote and whom to vote for and that
Candidate Hughes. If that not what they came
for why did they do it, and why did the republican cam
palgn committee" pay the expenses of the trip? The
OregOnian is simply telling what it knows is So and
is deliberately doing So Regardless of whether they are
wealthy or the train paid for by wealthy women they
here to tell the Oregon women who by their own
efforts achieved the ballot how to vote to help he-by
voting for Mr. Hughes. sense OF decency would have
suggested that instead of coming here instruct they
would have to sit at the feet Of the Oregon women
voters and learn from them how to win the ballot In
stead, having failed in their fight for suffrage they
come clear the continent to tell the who
made successful fight for the ballot what they should
do with it, 1t is the baefaced assumption of superiority
of these eastern that is CALLING to the sensible
solid Oregon woman voter 1t is the assumption that the
women Of Oregon did not know enough to vote without
instruction from these social and settlement workers.
that gals Yet here in Oregon the leader of the suf
frage movement. woman far above these eastern
visitors mentally, the sky is above the earth woman
who battling for suffrage when some of these would
be advisers were in leading strings And what could they
tell our Oregon women, that they did not know? Could
they any reason for the women of this state support
ing Hughes as far the suffrage movement was con-
cerned other than that Mr. Hughes had repudiated his
partys platform and had announced that personally he
for national suffrage? Was necessary to travel
clear across to deliver such message The
not for suffrage and the members of that party are
deliberately trying to deceive the voters Of the
state when they make the assertion they seeking help
to get the suffrage for themselves They hired spell
binders working for pay just like any other crowd of
political wordmongers, and they are trying to obtain
votes for Hughes under false pretenses.
The excursion was the idea of Miss Ann Morgan
daughter of the late king of Wall street and sister of the
reignng monarch The treasurer is Mrs Mary Hartmann
Rumsey heireSS to the Hartman Millions Associated inI
the enterprise with her are Mrs Robert Bacon whose
husband, partner of Morgan was made assistant
secretary of state by Roosevelt and later ambassador to
France and Mrs. W. H. Crocker widow of the California;
bonanza king.
On the train fund committee are Mrs Daniel Gug-
genheim of the smeer trust; Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt
representing inherited millions of railroad capital Miss
Maude Wetmore of the wealthy Rhode Island family
Mrs Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Theodore
Roosevelt whose husband Nicholas Longworth inherited
large forune Mrs f. T. Stotesbury, whose husband 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 untold millions in American
mines and Mexican plantations; Mrs 0. H. P Belmont
who has undertaken to raise half million dollars to de-
feat President Wilson; Mrs John Hayes Hammond wife
Pinchot wealthy in her right whose husband with
his inherited millions condoned "the crime of 1916" to
follow T. R.. into the republican fold; Mrs. William Elm
STEM wife of the millionaire of the Raritan wool
mills; Mrs Harry Payne Whitney and others.
These social workers part and parcel of organized
charity which is dependent upon wealth. Organized char
ity always spends its efforts to ameorate conditions as
they are and opposes fundamental reforms which would