The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-10-20
WALL ST. WOMEN
TOUR FOR HUGHES
"Si|k Stocking, Poodle Dog Bri-
gade" Off to Invade West.
MAKES SUFFRAGE PRETENsE.

MAKES SUFFRAGE PRETENSE
Many Members Of Party Travelling or
| Train Do Luxe Repudiated by Lead.
ers Of Womens Movement - Paie
sreakers to Do the Talking Fol
Them.
| Wall Street Is too busy harvesting
DemocratE prosperity to 60 campaign
ing-but ~ Is senseng Its womenfolk
The greatest aggregation Of wealth.
and social distinction ever represented
by fuss. feathers and femininity left
New YorR Monday. Oct 2. by special
train de luxe. to tell their sisters Of the
West how they should vote. Many OF
these women. claiming to be equal suf.
frage workers. are repudiated by lead.
ers Of that movement.
Stopping at Albany, Utica and SYRIA
cuse on their first day, the itinerary
takes the women's campaign train
through the principal cities Of the
north route across the continent and
brings thTm back through Colorado
Nebraskass Missouri and Kentucky, q
tour LASTING until Nov. 4. The expenses
are paid " and the tour Is conducted
under the auspices Of the Women's
Committee Of the National Hughes Al.
lance
"WomeIls Hughes Alliance" sounds
innocent end harmless enough until
one examines the personnel Of the or
ganizationsand discovers that it repre-
sents the Feminine side Of the organ
lied and Morganized wealth of Wall
Street.
The treasurer Of the Women's Com
mittee Is Mrs. Mary Hartman Rum
sey, daughter of the late Edward II.
HarrimanJ RAILROAD magnate and "prac-
teal man. Of the days when Theodore
Roosevelt received campaign funds
from the crooked business" which po-
litical exisencies later led him to de
nounce.
Thets Provide the Funds.
With MIS-. Rumsey on the Finance
COMMITTEES are Mrs. Robert Bacon,
whose hutband wa: translated from
the 'HouSe of Morgan" to be Roose-
velt's assi}tant Secretary Of State, and
later Ambassador to France; Mrs. Ber-
nard Fl. Rider, wifi of one of the pro-
prietors o3 the New York Stats lei
tung. lead4 of the German propaganda
against Pf{sit1ent Wilson; Mrs. w. H.
Crocker, Hil0w of he California min
ing and cad dmulti-miilionaire y
On Fund 1omnaitfee afk
ter TrnSsE IA Cornelius Vanderbilt.
representing Inherited millions Of rail
road capit4l: Mrs. Harry Payne Whit
ney, daughter of the late Cornelius
Vanderbilts Miss Maude Wetmore, of
the wealthy Rhode Island family of
that name; Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Long
worth, daughter of Theodore Roose
velt, whose husband is Nicholas Long
worth, Representative in Congress
from Ohio.
Many Of the junketers who are going
along to do the speaking are profes-
sional women who have won their own
way in the world-women who could
not afford the luxury of special trains
nor the diversion Of campaigning with
out pay. But back Of them, with their
money and the glamour that attaches
to their gilded names. are the women
standing. as financial sponsors for this
greatest society show that was ever
put on wheels. Some of these wives
and daughters Of the super-rich will go
along on this mission, and with their
presence, If not with their oratory, will
warn the women Of the West-who
are already voters-that their country
cannot be saved unless the women
cast their vote for the candidate of plu-
tocracy.
The letterhead from Republican cam
paign headquarters gives only the
names of the Train Fund Committee
as above, but besides them there is an
additional committee in charge of this
feature of the Hughes campaign.
Others In on the Junket.
On this committee appear, in addi-
ton to the foregoing members. the fol
lowing:
Mrs. e. T. Stotesbury, whose hus-
band Is Philadelphia partner Of ]. P.
Morgan & Co.; Mrs. II. o. Havemeyer,
wife Of the Sugar Trust and Standard
Oil magnate; Mrs. Phoebe Hearst,
mother Of William Randolph Hearst,
owner of millions in American mines
and Mexican plantations; Mrs. O. 81. P.
Belmont, who has undertaken to raise
half million dollars to defeat Presi-
dent Wilson; Mrs. John Hays Ham
mond, wife Of the multi-millionaire
mining man; Mrs. Mary Dreier, New
York society leader, Of wealthy Ger
man family with strong antipathy to
President Wilson.
A leading attorney of Pocatello, Ida,
Committee, says:
Il read with deep interest of the prep
arations of the Silk Stocking, Poodle
Dog Feminine Brigade that Is soon
to start on it's million dollar special
across the continent, to awaken the
enthusiasm Of the mothers and women
who carry the burden Of our national
greatness on their shoulders, to vote
for their idol, Hughes.
ut will not be difficult for the rank
and file Of the common people to see
the hypocrisy Of this movement, fos-
tered by ali element whose sacrilegious
fingers are dripping with the fat and
sweat that has been wrung from the
lives of thousands of toilers during
the half-century Of Republican control