Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-08-12
MRS. HUGHES IS
GOOD CAMPA|GNER
Former Justice Converted Her to
Suffrage, Says Wife of Pres
idential Candidate.

Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes is prov
ing good campaigner. Like her hus-
band, the presidential candidate, she
makes friends easily.
Mrs. Hughes is on the rear platform
at every stop. She gets off at the first
opportunity and clasps the hands of
the people gathered to receive them.
She does not complain of her hus-
bands ardent work. She says that
she is enjoying the tour as much as
Mr.. Hughes.
Mrs. Hughes was converted to the
cause of equal suffrage by her hus.
band. He convinced her after some
argument. Now she thinks his views
on the subject are unanswerable.
Until Mr.. Hughes became suffrag-
list, the question of votes for women
had not been serious one in the life
of Mrs. Hughes. She didn't need it
in her sheltered freedom. She was
too busy raising her children and car
ing for her home to touch the ques-
ton other than lightly. ~.
1t was her husband who showed her
that there are women in the world to
whom the ballot may be a necessity,
and she heartily agrees with him now
that the giving of the franchise should
result If the women want it.
No one may quote Mrs. Hughes di.
rectly. Although in two days she has
earned a reputation for silence from
reporters who think they have not an
interview unless they use quotation
marks, she is in reality the most
agreeable of takers, woman of
many ideas, and not meager in telling
them. 1t is too bad that her own
frank way of expressing herself can't
be expressed through linotype.
However, she doesn't like to talk
suffrage, although the women wanting
the ballot have done much already to
show their appreciation of her atti.
tude. In Detroit they swamped her
with flowers. In Chicago Mrs. Will.
liam SEVERN was the suffragist to
send Mrs. Hughes greetings from the
Womans Republican association and
other organizations of women whose
numbers total 100000, according to
Mrs. SEVERN. The greetings were
outlined at special meeting of WON.
en- called together Monday afternoon
by Mrs. SEVERN. But really Mrs.
Hughes wants to enjoy herself. Here.
tofore-for some twenty-odd years
she has not been able to take pleas
ure trips of any length without the
care of small children. Now they are
growing up. She is having her bip
vacation. And she is seeing the far
west for the first time in her life. al.
though she has been a traveller in
Europe frequently.
It's the big adventure for this If.
tie woman, of whom Sunday maya.
zine f1ctlonists have written nothing
but stories for her housekeeping prow.
ess. Maybe it is interesting to know
that mountain climbing is a recrea.
ton in which she is interested, and
that she could fatigue an inhibitant of
the continental divide region in a
morning walk, for she learned her art
in the Swiss Alps
She can paddle a canoe. and II is q
faVorite sport with her. She loves
baseball. She boasts that her brother
known as Dutch" Carpenter. was tho
best pitcher Yale ever had.
She was simply dressed in stvle
colors and lines that were tempered
She travels with no maid. She ia tho
only woman in the campaigning par
", ana she doesn't mind it a bit,