Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-10-05
El)NEN OF WEALTH
| AND |DLENESS
INVADE WEST
.r WHO LIVE ON FRUITS OF
WHO TOLL.
RLU[BLOODS FIGHT WILSON
- c+reet Finances Move-to Defeat
Esn ',,i,,au- u-..Women's Hughes ALI
49, 1n.s" or alliance of Plutocracy.'

y.n York. October 1.-Wall street is
"a busy harvesting democratic pros
a,;tv to 90 campaigning but is send.
M T. women folks. The greatest ag-
srot;on Of wealth and social distinc-
~ ever represented by fuss, feathers
s"5 @ feminity, leaves New York tomor-
nw % Monday by special train de luxe
" tsll their sisters of the west how
hbey should vote.
81 stopping at Albany, Utica and Syra-
,use on their first day, the itinerary
AXES the women's campaign train
tbrougb lne principal cities of the north
,Oute across the continent and brings
+bem back through Colorado, Nebraska,
Missouri and Kentucky, a tour lasting
rntil November A. The expenses are
paid by and the tour conducted under
he auspices of the women IS committee
of the National Hughes alliance.
"Women's Hughes alliance" sounds
Innocent and harmless enough until one
examines the personnel of the arganiza-
tOn and discovers that is represents
the feminine side of the organized and
&MOrganized wealth of Wall street.
The treasurer of the women's COM
nittee is Mrs. Mary Hartman Rum
sey, heiress to the millions of the late
i Edward H. Hartman, railroad magnate
and practical man. of the days when
Theodore Roosevelt received campaign
funds from the crooked business
which political exigencies later led him
4 10 denounce.
With Mrs. Rumsey on the finance
committee are Mrs. Robert Bacon, whose
husband was translated from the
\ house of Morgan' to be Roosevelt Is
assistant secretary of state and later
ambassador to France.
Mrs. Bernrd III. Ridder, wife of one
Of the properietors of the New York
Stats zeitung, leader OF the German
Propaganda against President Wilson.
Mrs. W. H. Crocker, widow of the
! California mining and railroad multi.
4 millionaire.
On the train fund committee are Mrs
Ghgenheim of the smelter trust, Mrs
Cornelius Vanderbilt, representing in
herlted millions of railroad capital; Mrs
Harry Payne Whitney, daughter of the
late Cornelius Vanderbilt; Miss Maude
wetmore of the wealthy Rhode Island
family Of that name; Mrs. Alice Roose
velt --ongworth, daughter of Theodore
roosevelt whose husband, Nicholas
IOagworth, inherited large fortune.
Many Of the junketers who are going
along to do the speaking are professional
women wha hove won their way in the
world, women who could not afford the
luxury OF special trains nor the diver
aon Of campaigning without pay. But
Oaek OF them, with their money and ths
glamour that attaches to their gilde6
names, are the women standing a,
financial sponsors and social back
stouhd Tor this greatest society show
Ia1 was ever put on wheels. Some OF
.sse wives and daughters of the super
nsn viii go along on this mission ant
WIN their presence, if not with thei
Wa.ofy, will war the women of tn,
"ss', VINO are already voters, that tbei
oountry cannot be "savedD unless tn,
avheh east their vote for the candidat,
Piutocracy. The letterhead from re
puuiean pu',i campaign headquarters give
G tne names of the train fund com
i.'ee as above, but besides them ther,
I;a an additlonal committee in charge O.
0n a. feature of the Hughes campaign
tha .ne committee appear in addition t,
NJ. M.Ofegoing members the following:
il iS n Z. L. Stotesbury, whose husban,
Wo. Philadelphia partner of j. P
morgan and Co.
naa, on,s d. Q, Havemeyer, wife of tn
M.. 'rnst and standard oil magnate.
R.nas; s; fhoebe Hearst, mother of VIM
lons pm Hearst, owner of untold mil
nlon,n IN American mines and Mexical
tsIan S " II. Belmont, who has under
asfea. n 70 . raise half million dollars t
'',1a1 W President Wilson.
tbs ,s m',. John Hays Hammond, wife o
Ms N;ui-mllilonaire VI mining man.
leada, Mary Dreirer. New York societ,
hbos with aspirations to emancipat
n,on,, oI a wealthy German family wit
M.ss antlpathy to President Wilson.
own III Tifford Pinchot, wealthy in he
hertz m5gnt, whose husband with his in
Of lou IeIs,, millions condoned "the Grim
pubEsa. to follow T. R. into the rt
Pipcbo.H !oid, while his brother, Amo
dent tVS; W;,. Is strongly supporting Pres
nilHonoi""i Williams Enstein, wife of til
en- mills. VI tne harltan Woo
not reoOiy Gy 1t appears that the west wi
class I've e,;., this vanguard of the leisur
leadinc" WIN unmixed enthusiasm.
writins attorney of Pocatello, Idah,
says: Tue democratic committe,
preparat;aa ataa with deep interest of tn
dog fem;n;o OF the silk stocking, poodl
ihe brigade that is soon /