The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-10-12
DEMOCRATS MADE
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tering for the votes which the Presi.
dent from the platform Of Shadow
Lawn and in his speech Of acceptance
had repudiated?
o'clock In the morning and matters
were left in state Of watchful wait
Ing. Hardly ten days passed by when
the second emissary OF President vii.
son appeared In New York City to ac-
complish what Senator Stone had fail.
ed to accomplish. This time the mes.
senger appeared In the person Of
cabinet minister. No less a parsonage
than Albert Burleson, Postmaster Gen.
eral, who divides the honors with Sen.
ator Stone and Colonel House in the
intimate advisorship Of the President.
MIR. Burleson arranged through Mr..
Viereck. the editor Of the Fatherland,
for a conference at the offices OF the
Democratic National headquarters be
1t said to the credit Of the gentleman
invited. that they declined to have any
dealings In the subterranean political
diplomacy which was being engineered
by the Wilson group. Mr.. Viereck was
the only one to welcome Mr.. Burleson.
What occurred between them Mr.. Bur-
Lesson and MIR. Viereck may be safely
left to the imagination until such
times as either one Of the gentlemen
Is willing to take the public into his
confidence. So much for the campaign
or kellor Stone Burleson and Wilson
what they have done in New YOr.:
they have done In the west. They have
been hypocritical TO the limit and we
have been in the best position to oh.
serve their hypocrisy. should like
to be- present at the next interview
between Hapgood, Stone, Burleson
and Wilson. Perhaps | shall not he
invited"
Inc woman's campaign special
train Is proving a great success" said
MISS Frances A. kellor at the Hughes
Alliance Headquarters today. Miss
keHor, who Is chairman OF the Wom-
ems Committee OF the National Hughes
Alliance, has had charge OF the entire
work OF financing and equipping the
tran and organizing both the speakers
that 20 with the train and the State
and local committees that receive It.
Miss kellor was obliged to leave the
train ut Minneapolis Saturday night
for business trip to New York but
will rejoin 1t at once.
The thing that pleases us most is
the activity of the Democratic Nation.
al Committee" Miss kellor said.
They have organized from the Allan.
tic to the Pacific to defeat the train.
The honor of drawing the full batter.
les OF the opposition has remained for
the women. The stories sent out
about the wealth and luxury represent.
ell by the train were enough TO make
every bandit left in the west hurry
down TO the railroad track 10 stop us.
Ihese stories are beginning TO do
us good now. In several places where
people have come to meet the train
expecting TO find all sorts of curiosi.
Ties ON 1t they have been all the more
impressed by the serious, earnest,
competent women that they really did
hnd there. Instead Of getting into an
atmosphere of diamonds and ladies'
maids and manicures they found them.
selves In a company of intelligent,
thoroughly informed. practical women
with Keen, broad social consciousness.
l see in the morning papers that the
Democratic omen expect to have the
use OF 100000 automobiles for a
month. wonder why it Is virtuous
TO have 100000 autos and wicked to
have special train? Even IL all the
cars are "Fords" they would repre-.
sent an investment of at least $40.
oo0'000 which makes the headlight OF
our special train seem pale and dim.
III woman is a plutocrat because
she can subscribe toward the speciai
and our subscriptions ran from 81 I'D
why isn't she a plutocrat is she has
car to lend for a month? wonder
now expensive a car you can have and
still be Democrat in good and regu.
lar standing? The interest that our
train is arousing through the west
shows what people really think of II,
we expected to handle three crowds
a day. We are now handling eight. No
one else is meeting as many groups az.
cept the candidate himself,
The most regrettable aspects OF the
attacks on tho train is the personal
tone that has intentially been given to
them. The Republican women
throughout this campaign have played
straight clean politics, without de-.
scending to personalities in any single
case. And there are personalities that
could be used in this campaign too II
Will be found, however, that the gen.
eral feeling among American women
demands that high tone mark their
national participation in political
life"