Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-09-29
WOMEN FIT FACTS
AGAINST PROMISES
CONTRAST WILSON'S SOCIAL RE.
FORM RECORD TO HUGHES
VETOES WHILE GOVERNOR.

With performance balanced against
promise, and with women of intellec-
tual prominence pitted against wom-
en- of mere wealth. the Women's Bu-
reau of the Democratic national COM
mittee has entered into battle with
! the Congressional Union on the field
of the II suffrage states.
Blazoning the social reform record
of President Wilson and the Demo-
cratic congress just adjourned against
the veto record of Charles Evans
Hughes during his term as governor
of New Yorr, the Woman's Bureau
has prepared to combat the millions
of dollars which Mrs. Harry Payne
Whitney, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
and Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim of New
York will represent on the special
train ON which they will tour the
West, by sending broadcast the testi-
mony of Miss Ida Tarbell, the great
est woman publicist in the country,
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, former super
intendent of schools of Chicago and
eminent educator, Mrs. Belva Lock-
wood, leader of the peace party and
only woman ever on ticket as can
didate for president of the United
States, Mrs. Antoinette Funk, former
leader of the Illinois Progressives,
and scores of other famous public
spirited women who have broken
away from party ties or non-partisan
silence to declare themselves for
Woodrow Wilson.
No Millionaire Specials.
"The Democratic party is funda-
mentally opposed to the British rot
ten-borough methods adopted by the
Congressional Union in campaigning
in the suffrage states" Mrs. George
Bass, chairman of the Woman's Blu
reau, declares. "The campaign which
the Womans Bureau is directing is
leaving the conduct of local affairs
absolutely to the local leaders. We
are merely aiding them by counsel,
by literature, and by publicity. We
will hold conferences of the state Or
ganization chairmen, but we will send
out no bying column, no special
trains, no multimillionaire spectacles
for the enlightenment of Western
women voters. We are perfectly
willing to trust our cause to the in
telligence of the women who will vote
at the November election.
"When teh thinking women of the
country come voluntarily away from
their parties or out of their neutral
policy of silence on politics to speak
for Woodrow Wilson, t hey are &C
tuated by reasons that are influence
ing women everywhere.
"They know that Woodrow Wilson
kept peace with honor. and because
women know and pay the ultimate
cost of war. they are grateful to him.
"They know that Woodrow Wilson
brought about the passage Of the
child labor law, and because women
know what millions Of children in in
dustrial servitude have endured. they
are grateful to him.
"They know that he has given the
country prosperity that has not
been confined to the few, but which
has been showered upon the many,
and they will prove their apprecia-
ton by voting for President Wilson's
reelection.
Hughes Cannot Hide Record.
"Mr. Hughes may initiate the os-
trich by declaring his belief in woman
suffrage at the eleventh hour. but he
cannot hide his record as governor of
New York when he vetoed the Coney
Island nickel fare bill, which pro-
vided cheaper fares for the poor of
New York city to their amusement
ground, the two-cent-a-mile bill, and
the equal pay for equal work bill
for New York teachers, a measure
which gave to women equal emolu-
ment as that received by men doing
the same work.
"These are contrasted records
which brought under the Wilson BAN
ners the women leaders Of American
ideals. They are the records on which
the Democratic party stands. And
they are the records that will re-elect
President Wilson by an overwhelm-
ing majority in which women's votes
will have been the important factor"
Mrs. Bass, who has returned to
Chicago from the East, held several
conferences with President Wilson
during her stay there. She also es-
tablshed an Eastern branch Of the
Bureau in New York.