Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-01
WOMEN FOR HUGHES
TRAIN READY TO GO
Details of Itinerary Will Be
Left to Be Arranged at
Each Stopping Place.
SPEAKERS OF EXPERIENCE

New York, Sept. 2o.-(Special Tel
egram 1.-The genius of occasions is
to have something to do with the de-
tails of the five-week campaign in
twenty-eight state. Cor Charles E.
Hughes. republican candidate for pres
ident, to be carried on from the wom-
ems campaign train which will leave
the Grand Central terminal at II
o'clock next Monday morning for a
tour Of the country.
Although an absolutely clock-work
itinerary has been worked out by the
woman's campaign committee of the
republican national committee and the
woman's committee of the National
Hughes alliance and train committees,
composed OF large number Of wom-
en-, have been organized in cities along
the way to receive the train speakers
and cooperate with them in their
campaigning, no hard and fast sched-
ule has been made out as to speeches.
Can't Be Done by Recipe.
In a general way it is known which
women are best fitted to speak in GER
tain parts and on certain questions.
But although this is the first time
women have ever got together to help
elect a president of the United States
or to enter in any definite and sus-
tanned way into national politics. they
know that campaigning is not the sort
of thing which can BE- done by recipe
written out beforehand. Much has
been left to the local committees, who
know their people. Curiouslv enough
the women who are to go on the cam
paign train are with few exceptions
not women who have talked for suf-
frage. The exceptions are Miss Helen
Todd of California, Mrs. Rheta Childe
Dorr of New York and Mrs. Ray
mond Robins OF Chicago.
The other women, although all SUI
fragists, have not worked as actively
for it as they have for the immediate
relief of social conditions of one kind
and another. They are Miss Mary
Antin, Scarsdale, N. Y; Miss Helen
V. Boswell, New York; Dr.. Katherine
B. Davis, New York; Miss Mary F.
Dreier, New York; DR.. Katherine P.
Edison, Los Angeles; Mrs. Maud H.
Elliott, Newport, R. l.; Miss Maude
E. Miner, New York; Mrs. Henry
Moskowitz, New York; Mrs. Nelson
O'Shaughnessy, New York, and Miss
II NItfpyt, Ghfroon
Experienced Speakers.
They are all experienced in public
speaking, all used TO having convic-
tons worth talking about. This is
not a suffraglsts' expedition, but
something bigger. The women on
this train are not going simply be-
cause Mr.. Hughes has come out 70.
the federal suffrage amendment. They
have reasons OF their own apart from
the issue Of votes for women which
make them believe that Mr.. Hughes
is the best man to further the social
reforms for which they work.
1t is a representative trainload. As
one of the women said today: This
is no ladies' holiday. This is no stunt
to keep women in the public eye. 1t
wouldn't be possible to finance and
manage a five-week stunt nor could
we get the sympathy and cooperation
of the women of the country as we
have done if we were not sincere in
this thing or if we had only one rea-
son between us for thinking Mr..
Hughes the right man. This is the
elimination of he social interests
which women have had for years in
different groups. This is simply an
expression of women's political inter-
ests based upon what they believe to
be the best way to the social better
ment they are after"
Not Personal Issue.
The party will be joined at various
points by women who cannot 60 all
the way, but who will go through
their own state, making speeches and
working with the women from other
parts OF the country.
Nor can suffrage, so far as that en-
tiers into the campaign, be considered
a personal issue, even by those peo-
pie who are wont to consider it so.
Mary Dreier, who gives suffrage as
reason for her campaigning, has
national and social reasons back Of it.
She says:
81 believe that the time has come
when working women throughout the
country should be qualified to use
political power in behalf of them
selves and their children. Out of the