New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-04

parties run Onc-handed campaign
First, because the women like the game
They like the martial trumpet of the
town band and the red sputter of rally
torches. The women Of the Hughes
train have ridden pretty comfortably IN
motors 20 most OF their parades, but
once or twice in Oregon they felt the
thrill of marching men, as shoulder to
shoulder they paced the main streets
of a strange far town and counted the
cheering crowd whose votes were Just
as good and just as valuable as Fifth
Avenues.
Women Loved the Game
Mary Antin has loved the game, the
bowling TO right and left, the coming of
slogans that run like gossip Of the
bazaars up TO the political throne; Mrs.
DemOrest loved the game, the telling Of
stories that caught a crowd as big as
hundred dinner parties with pleasant
chuckle; once to have heard Mrs.
Maud Howe Elliott distributing
Hughes buttons TO the motley men on
a railway platform, with her sweet old
smile and her, "Sir, accept this token
in memory of the women of the Hughes
Campaign Train" is to know that
women enjoy the wide, wide world with
it's mans dimensions.
Second, and far more important, most
of the women of the party return from
their thirty-three days of campaign
ing. regarding national politics as
duty, almost religiously eager TO steer
the nation. and determined to find
powerful way of expressing themselves
The women's swing from sea to sea
cost more than $4,000 Mary Antn
says IL was worth it If it were nothing
more than a school of politics for tia
women who experienced il. Then
learned how local politics really are
and how little the farmers Of North
Dakota care for the unimagined work
ing children of the East. They
woke in their berths over rocky Nevada
roads TO ponder that getting the regis
tration out is the cornerstone of get
ting the party in. In Minneapolis, 81.
Paul, Spokane, Seattle and Portland
they did real service for the Repub-
lean party.
Fought There for TEDDY"
A good many of the women had made
ties in the Northwest when the fight
was on for Teddy" and nearly all were
women of national reputation for dis
eliminating social service. They were
speaking in behalf of a man. lately OBJ
scured by his official position on the
Supreme Court bench as an intimate in
the popular imagination, and what
Hughes himself could hardly in mod
esty do. they could.
They drew for the women of the
West a picture of man who had be-
lieved in women. used them in public
Office to their full capacity where men,
bers of their sex had unique talents,
man who had grasped the problems of
politics as women believe thew should
be grasped ever relentlessly in defence
of the human resources of the country,
guarding the working children. pro-
tecting the working girls OF our indus
trial centres who daily IeopardIze their
chances of wifehOod and motherhood
through the strain OF machine Indus
tries.
Again and again Frances Kellor
spoke Of the permanent quality OF his
mis- fundamental legisla-
ton, and the women of the West liked
10 be told these things by womeL whom
they believed and whose contagious
faith was far more thrilling to them
than either the more sober appeal OF
the candidate himself or the fabbily
pacific but sentimentally successful "He
kept US out of war" slogan Of the ac-
tive Wilson Women's League out on
the Coast.
Politicians Give Welcome
Twice the women had the enthusiast
tic Honest to God" thanks OF the
wariest politicians of their districts
West Coast and Illinois. It made up
to them somewhat for what DR.. Davis.
with her mouth az its tirmest, called
the "pussyfooting" of an influential
part Of the men, bearing the response
bility for the Hughes election. men
from ant-suffrage states. men who
didn't in the least see why the women
OF the country didn't put their money
into the general fund and LEI the men
work out the campaign on less expert
mental lines.
The obvious reluctance of influential
national Republicans TO pretend they
thought the adventure good politics
when they simply couldn't tell before
hand has been thorn in the travelling
flesh. whenever there was time to leave
off handshaking the voting sisters Of
Phoenix, who had cut a thousand Amer