The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-09-27
WOMEN FORM
AN ORGANIZATION
In Kentucky To Uphold
President Wilson.
MRS. MAUS IS At HEAD OF IT
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Defends Its Policies and De.
clares Country Needs His
Reelection.
A WOMAN'S STRONG COMMENT

A woman's Democratic Wilson
Progressive Club" has been organic
ed among women of Kentucky as a
counter-balancing influence TO til \
Hughes Woman's Alliance. The or
ganization was effected at Frankfort
last week. Mrs. l.. Nj. Maus was
made permanent chairman and Mrs.
George Chinn secretary.
An effort will be made to form
chapters in a number of towns in
the State
One of the points made at the
meeting was that the suffragists
know that Wilson went to his home
in New Jersey to vote for woman's
suffrage. while Hughes has never
voted for the issue--he has only an
nOunced for it.
Mrs. Maus, In brief address.
commented upon the many wonder
full achievements of Wilson's admin
| istration, and expressed the convic
ton that, to a woman and a mother,
his great humanitarianism makes
the greatest appeal.
Few people realize, she said, the
amount of commercialism in war.
! The aggressive. insistent and often
abusive individuals and corpora
tions, who have lakes to grind"
those who deal in ships. guns, am
munition and mules, as we'll as some
who are willing to spill the blood of
the young men of the country in or
der to attain wealth and promotion.
We're all cited as influences which
beset President Wilson in dealing
with the Mexican situation. In this
connection Mrs. Maus said: Let
us look at the result of this splen-
did, wise policy-we are so prosper
Gus that we are the bread basket of
the world, and Democrats and Re
| publicans alike are enjoying this
prosperity-for the Lord sends rain
alike upon the just and unjust. This
same prosperity has enabled us to
/ help millions of innocent, suffering
people, whose rulers were not as
wise or as humble as ours, and who
are paying the price of pride. AFRO
gance and stupidity"
Mrs. Maus, who is the wife of
Col. l.. Nj. Maus. Medical Depart
ment. U. S. A., retired. referred to
the Spanish-America war in defense
Of the non-war policy. She express
ed personal conviction that there
was not sufficient cause for that war.
1t so happened that Mrs. Maus was
in the White House with Mrs. Nc
Kinley when Secretary of War AL
ger announced that the President
had just signed the declaration OF
war. She said:
There was nothing really au-
thentic as to who had blown up the
I Maine. Gen. Lees pride had been
wounded and his friends wished him
to return to Cuba with an army at
his back. but it was the yellow jour
mails and contractors which persuad-
ed our lovely. gentle President that
war was necessary, and he told me
that he had every assurance that il
would all be over in three or four
months. Little did he realize what
il would mean to our country, even
short and bloodtess as it was
In discussing the action of the
President regarding the recent rail-
road strike. Mrs. Maus said that he
had been actuated By a desire to
serve the masses of the people. She
cited the horrors of a strike from an
experience in Chicago several years
ago during the strike of the shirt
waist makers.
In concluding her address, Mrs.
Maus said:
''ItI is the far-reaching foresight
of our wonderful President which
fills us with admiration when we
feel he is not only benefactor to
Americans but to the whole human
race. Upon one occasion l met his
daughter, then Miss Jessie Wilson,
and when I expressed the fear that
her father might oyertax his
strength, she answered very quietly.
Father is not depending on his own