The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-10-27
WALL ST. WOMEN
TOUR FOR HUGHES
"SiIk-Stocking, Poodle DOG Bri-
gade" Carries Doctrine of
PIutocracy to West.
MAKES SUFFRAGE PRETENSE
Many of Party on Train de Luxe Re-
pudiated by Leaders Of Woman's
Movement - Paid Speakers
to Do Talking.

wall street Is too busy harvesting
Democratic prosperity TO go campaign
ing-but IL is sending it's womenfolk
The greatest aggregation OF wealth and
social distinction ever represented by
fuss, feathers and femininity left New
York on Monday. Oct. 2, by special
train de luxe. to tell their sisters
of the West how to vote. Many
of these women, claiming TO be eQua
suffrage workers. are repudiated by
leaders Of that movement.
Stopping at Albany, Utica and SYRIA
cuse on their first day, the itinerary
takes the wOmen's campaign traiI
through the principal cities of the
north route across the continent anC
brings them back through Colorado
Nebraska, Missouri and Kentucky. 6
tour lasting until November 4. The
expenses are paid by and the tour i.
conducted under the auspices OF the
WoIaen's Committee Of the Nationa
Hughes Alliance.
"Women's Hughes Alliance" sound.
innocent and harmless enough, unit
one examines the personnel Of the or
ganization and discovers that 1t repre-
SentS the feminine side OF the organ
lied and Morganized wealth Of Wal
street.
The treasurer of the WOmen's Com
mittee is Mrs. Mary Hartman Rum
sey. daughter OF the late Edward II
Hartman, railroad magnate and ''prac
teal man" of the days when Theodore
Roosevelt received campaign fund:
from the CROOKED busin esS" which
political exigency later led him Il
denounce.
These Provide the Funds.
With Mrs. Rumsey on the Financi
Committee are Mrs. Robert Bacon
whose husband was translated from
the House of Morgan to be RoOsevelt'i
Assistant Secretary OF State, and latel
Ambassador to France; Mrs. Her
nard III. Ridder, wife of one Of thu
proprietOrs of the New York Staat
ZeitungS leader OF the German propa
ganda against President Wilson; Mrs
w. III. Croker, widow of the Cali
fornia mining and railroad multimH
lionaire.
On the Train Fund Committee ar
Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim, of the Smell
ter Trust; Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
representing inherited millions of rail
road capital; Mrs. Harry Payne Whit
ney, daughter Of the late Corneliu
Vanderbilt; Miss Maude WetmOre, o
the wealthy Rhode Island family o
that name; Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Lon.
worth. daughter of Theodore ROose
Welt, whose husband is Nicholas Long
worth, In Congress from Ohio.
Many of the junketers who are Sc
ing along to dO<the speaking are pfl
fessional women, who could not affor
the luxury of special trains nor tn
diversion of campaigning without pa,
But back Of them, with their none
and the glamour that attaches to thei
gilded names, are the women standin
as financial sponsors for this creates
society show that ever was put o
wheels.
Some of these wives and daughter
of the super-rich will go along on thi
mission and with their presence,
not with their oratory, will warn IN
women of the weSt-whO are alread
voters-that their country cannot B
saved" unless the women cast the.
vote for the candidate Of plutocrac,
The letterhead from Republica
campaign headquarters gives only Ii
names of the Train Fund Committe
as above. but besides them there is a
additional committee In charge of th
feature Of the Hughes campaign.
Others in on the Junket.
ON this committee appear in n
dition 10 the foregoing members, Il
following:
Mrs. f.. L. Stotesbury, whose hu
band is Philadelphia partner of j.
Morgan 4 Co. Mrs. II. o. Havemeye
wife of the Sugar Trust and Standal
oil magnate; Mrs. Phoebe Hears
mother of William Randolph Hears
owner OF millions In American min
and Mexican plantations; Mrs. o.
=. Belmont. who has undertaken
raise half million dollars 10 defe
President Wilson; Mrs. John Ha
Hammond. wife of the multimillio
, nire mining man; Mrs. Mary Drei'
New York society leader. Of q wealt
German family with strong anupat
10 President Wilson.
A leading attorsey OF Pocatel
Idaho. writing TO the Democratic \
,lonal Committee. says:
Il read with deep interest Of
preparations of The SILK Stockir
: Poodle Dog. Feminine Brigade that
soon 10 start on its million dollar 81
} cial across the continent TO awak
The enthusiasm OF the mothers a
women who carry the burden OF G
national greatness on tfrefr shoulde
. 10 vote for their idol, Hughes.
: 1T will not be difficult for the "a
and file OF the common people 10 :
the hypocrisy OF this moyemept-'