The Hattiesburg news., 1916-10-09
THAT ROYAL BLUE.
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compose Ine hOyal Blue Speclal start
ling out to elect Hughes and punish
Wilson are not merely gilded butter
gfiies of fashion seeking in politics
rsomething to arouse the jaded sensi-
Utilities of Bar Harbor and that tired
feeling after a long and hard season
lat Newport. Quite a few of them con-
ceive that business is business and
know what they want. They are the
wives and daughters of those male
factors of great wealth." the Colonel
was so glibly and vociferously telling
us about four years ago.
The idea seems to be to keep Wall
Street as much in the background and
out of sight as possible. So, Wall
Street hides behind its petticoats.
Here is list of ladies who represent
millions of money piled UP in a few
hands by class legislation. Inevitably,
they want to repeal the income tax
and recall old High Tariff. The or
ganization is entitled The Woman
Committee Of the Republican National
Committee. Its treasurer is Mrs. Mary
Hartman Rumsey, heiress to the mil
| lions of the late Edward Fl. Hartman,
l>"practical man" of the days when
Theodore Roosevelt received campaign
| funds from the crooked business"
which political exigency later led him
| to denounce.
With Mrs Rumsey on the finance
committee are Mrs. Robert Bacon,
whse husband was translated from
the House of Morgan" to be Roose-
velt's assistant secretary of state and
later ambassador to France.
Next comes Mrs. Bernard Ridder,
wife of one of the proprietors of the
New York Staats-Zeitung, leader of
the Kaiser German conspiracy to-
control American politics by showing
that the hyphenate vote holds the
balance of power; and, right after
Mrs. Ridder, we have Mrs. Crocker
widow of the California mining and
railroad multi-millionaire.
On the train fund committee are
Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim, of the
Smelter Trust; Mrs. Cornelius Van
derbilt, representing millions of rail
road capital and Miss Maude Wet
more, of the rich Rhode Island fam
lily.
Many of the iunketers who are go
ing along to do the speaking are pro-
fessional women who could not afford
the luxury of special trains nor the
diversion OF campaigning without pay,
and who are. of course, regularly en-
ployed.
Besides the train fund committee
there is a general managing commit
tee. on which appear in addition to
the foregoing members the following:
Mrs. e. T. Stotesbury, whose hus-
band is Philadelphia partner of J.
p. Morgan & Co.
Mrs Fl. O. Hayemeyer, wife of the
Sugar Trust and Standard Oil mag
nate.
Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, mother of
William Randolph Hearst, owner Of
untold millions in American mines
and Mexican plantations.
Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont, who has un-
dertaken to raise half million dol
lars to defeat President Wilson, and
who threatens that unless the ballot
is given to women in the United
States within two years the Pank
hurst methods of physical assault will
be adopted.
Mrs. John Hayes Hammond, wife
Iof the multi-millionaire mining engi- |
neer, and Mrs. Clifford Pinchot, |
wealthy in her own right, whose mil
lionaire husband condoned ''the crime |
of 1872 to follow the Colonel back
into the Republican fold
To be sure, these ladies' have the
same right that men have to their
political opinions. But the people at |
large have the right to know Just
where they stand on the public ques
tions that enter into the campaign
They belong, one and all, to the capt
talistic class. They would repeal the
income tax. They would reordain a
high protective tariff. They would
deny the people of an entire section
Of the Union alike fair play and equal
ity before the law They are, in short,
court ladies', society ladies, aristo-
cratic and naughty, who know not the
plain, common people, and care for
nothing except their own wealth and
pleasure, balls, routs, parties and
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