Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-21


time Mr.. Roosevelt will use the magic
| of his voice to turn the progressives
| toward the fold, and then Beverfdge
| will come to lure them in and to put
up the bars.
| Prior to going to Indiana Albert J.
will undertake long journeyings. He
| is to speak in Chicago october 8, and
from here he will set forth on jour-
ney that will take him through the
northern tier of states, down the Pa
| cific coast, east into Arizona and New
Mexico, and thence through Colorado,
Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri, and
! then home to Hoosierdom for the last
| ticks of the campaign.
Will Not Go to Milwaukee.
| There is surprise here in some quar-
| tiers that Beveridge is not to be sent to
Milwaukee, where there is an insistent
I demand for him. Things have to be
said bluntly once in a while. Mr.. Bev-
eridge is rro-German in his sympathies.
Milwaukee is a German town,
or. at any rate, largely so. Is it pos
! sible that the republican managers
think that it would be mistake to
send Beve ridge to Milwaukee because
| of the Interpretation which might be
put upon his missionary eHorts in
made famous by something better thar
beer?
Theodore Roosevelt is to follow Bev-
eridge in Chicago with a sufficient dis
lance between the two to prevent the
firing of the big guns all at once.
Roosevelt is going to talk about the
Lusitania and the Fa1laba and the
Frye and the Arabic and of the rest
of the fleet that went down. He also
is going to talk about Belgium; The
leaders know this and some of them
are fearful and some of them are glad.
They will not send Roosevelt to Mil
waukee, although some of the repub-
lican politicians point out that he
might just as well be sent there as to
be allowed to speak in Chicago only
eighty-two miles distant, with ample
mail and telegraph facilities between
the two places and with a reading pub
lie accredited to Milwaukee rather
larger than to most cities of it's size.
In some respects it seems to be
campaign of avoidance that does not
avoid.
Middle western republicans and demo-
Gratis complained not far back that the
managers of their parties were not wide
awake to their opportunities, that the
work was tagging. that the pepper in
it. like that which Jim Mann exhibited
in the House of Representatives when
the pure food bill was in passage. was
largely tapoca colored with lamp
black Things are different today.
building on Michigan boulevard. where
the democratic management holds
forth. and in the Conway building,
where Republican Manager Hert.
Jimmie" Garfield and the rest are
pushing republicanism. The change
came overnight. Stagnation became
motion and now things are whirling
and kicking up the dust. 1t is getting
to look more like a real campaign in
this town, which is not accustomed to
anything slow.
Woman Voters Source of Worry.
The women of the suffrage states are
worrying the republicans and perhaps to
less degree are worrying the democrats.
The. republican campaign management
seems to bank largely on the fact that
Charles E. Hughes is committed to
suffrage amendment to the Constitution
to keep most of the women in line for the
party. The republicans. however. have
heard that many of the women are going
to vote for Woodrow Wilson because he
has kept us out of war; The chief cause
of worry over the woman question SO far
as the democrats are concerned seems to
be identical with the cause for hope
among the republicans, the Hughes pro-
nouncement in favor of suffrage by means
Of the submission Of a constitutional
amendment to the states for ratification.
Republican speakers who have been
through Illinois say that in joint debates
which have been held with republican
on one side and democrat on the other
every reference to Wilson's peace keeping
proclivities is applauded by virtually all
the women present at the meetings. The
republican speakers admit that they are
having trouble to meet the thing.
In Illinois women can vote for Presi-
dent and Vice President while they can
not vote for members Of Congress and
for a good many state officials. Party
| leaders who are hopeful that the wom-
ems vote will help their cause wish that
| the newspapers of the state would cut out
their woman's pages for about six weeks.
and. as the politicians put it. force the
| women to read the editorials and the
political news Announcements in virtu-
/ ally every newspaper In the state that
| women can vote for President and Vice
President have been unavailing. Seem
i ingly not one-half of the women of this
state know that they can cast ballots for
Mr. Hughes or for Mr.. Wilson as their de-
sire dictates. Editorial after editorial
has been printed in the papers urging
women to rally at the polls for the ma
! tional cause as espoused by republican,
/ ism or democracy. but it seems that Illi-
nois women do not read editorials any
more than they read the ordinary political
news Of the day.
Refuse to Believe Truth.
| One Chicago woman. who for years
| has been engaged in sociological work.
| says the belief is so strong among for
| eign-born women who are citizens of
| this country that they cannot vote for
| President that there is no use in trying
] to overtake the ialsehood with the
| truth She says that if the women are
| son or Hughes they will think that it
| is lie It is a fact, however. that ig-