The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1916-09-21
WOMEN TO CAM.
PAICN FOR HUGHES

Interview with Frances A. Kellor)
"In the appointment of the Repub-
lican Women's campaign committee
by Chairman Wilcox, the leading par
ty in American politics recognizes in
a most significant way the political
cooperation and interest of women
citizens of America. The committee
is not a suffrage committee. 1t rep
resents women both as voters and as
active participants in the whole So
cial and political life of the country
in this campaign.
"The craftsmanship and non-parti-
sanship of this recognition is seen in
the nationwide representation of the
committee, which includes states
where women vote as well as those
where they do not. Mr.. Wilcox has
lifted at one stroke the political ac-
tivity of women above the strife for
suffrage and has made it of construc-
tive value to the country. He has
made it clear that women's co-opera-
ton is welcome along all lines
whether they vote or not.
"The committee includes: Mrs.
Geo. w. Aiken, 624 Alaska Bldg, Sc
attic, Wash; Mrs. Larz Anderson.
Brookline. Mass. Mrs. Edna c. Ba-
ker, Sparks, New; Mrs. Chas. Sumner
Bird, East Walpole, Mass; Mrs. Jo-
seph It. Bowen, Chicago, ILL.,; Mrs.
Nicholas Murray Butler, New York
City; Mrs. Henry Danforth, Roches-
ter, N. Y; Mrs. William Einstein, 121
East 57th St, New York City, Mrs.
Laura B. Evans. Taylorville, ILL.,;
Miss Belle Fligelman, Helena, Mont:
Mrs. Mary e. Gibson, Los Angeles,
CAL; Mrs. John Hays Hammond,
Massachusetts; Mrs. L. c. HARMS
berger. Lander, Wyo.; Mrs. Nelson
H. Henry. New York City: Mrs. Solo
mon Hirsch, Portland, Ore; Miss
Frances A. Kellor, New York City.
Mrs Addie E. Krebs, San Francisco.
Cal; Mrs. Margaret Hill McCartcr,
Kansas; Mrs. Frank Mebane, Spray,
N. c.; Mrs. Henry Morgan, Wilcox,
Ariz.;; Mrs. William Severence, Chi
cago, ILL.,; Mrs Oscar Straus, New
York City; Mrs. Cabot Ward, 81 Mad
ison Ave. New York City; Miss
Maude Wetmore. Newport, R. L.; Mrs.
]. D. Whitmore, Colorado; Mrs. Mar
garet Witcher, Cherdon, Utah.
Il believe that the character of the
women appointed is itself indicative
of the new spirit abroad in Republi-
can politics-the spirit that takes wo-
mems work on its merit and admits
them to its counsels because of prov
ed ability and leadership.
Mrs. Frank Gibson, of California,
is a member of Governor Johnson's
commission in immigration and hous-
ing, and long has been leader in
progressive. movements and legisla-
ton in that state.
Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen, of Chicago.
has long been associated with Miss
Jane Adams of Hull House, and is
known throughout America for her
Juvenile court work and for the pro-
lection of city youth. Mrs. Simko-
witch, head of Greenwich House, is
well known throughout the country
as a leader in all social welfare
movements. and Mrs. Einstein for her
splendid fight for mothers pensions.
Miss Maud Wetmore, of Rhode
Island, is known among her many ac-
tivities for her splendid achievements
in the welfare department of National
Civic Federation, and Vacation socie-
ty and in the Red Cross and Prepar-
edness movements.
"Mrs. Cabot Ward is leader in
Catholic charities and is well known
nationally for her writing and for
her work in music in parochial
schools throughout the country. Mrs.
John Hays Hammond and Mrs. Chas.
Bird, of Massachusetts, Mrs. Oscar
Straus, of New York, and Mrs. Frank
Mebane, of North Carolina, have long
been identified with leading civic and
philanthropic national movements;
Mrs. Nicholas Murray Butler repre-
sents the educational world.
"The time has come for the nation
alization of work and issues in which
women are interested. for the aboli-
ton of sectional, state and sex lines
in political work, and for the politi-
cal education and expression of wo-
men on broad lines
1.-The persistence of suffragists in
the 'non-partisan attitude is depriv-
ing the country of some of its best
workers, is shutting women off from
political education so essential to the
wise use of the ballot, is alternating
them from participation in great ma
tional movements of education, immi-
grafton, Americanization, prepared