South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-10-02
Wall Street is Too Busy Har-
veSting Democratic Pros
perity so 1t Will Send
the Women Folk.
NAMES OF COMMITTEE
LIKE 400" RECEPTION
Bio Interests Are All Repre-
Sented by Wives or 0augh-
terS-BiggeSt Society
Show on Wheels.
News-Timea snecIal ServIce /,

News-Times Special Service,
NEW YORK, oct. wall St is
too busy harvesting democratic
prosperity 10 go campaigning, but is
sending its wOme.4 folk. The great
est aggregation of wealth and social
distinction ever represented by russ
feather and femininity' left New
York today by special train de luxe
10 tell their sisters of the west how
they should vote.
stopping at Albany. Utica and
Syracuse on their first day, the tin
erary takes the women's campaign
train through the principal cities Of
the north route across the continent
and brings them back through Colo
RADIO. Nebraska. Missouri and Ken
lucky. a tour lasting until Nov. A..
The expenses are paid by and the
tour is conducted under the auspices
OF the Women's committee OF the
Hughes National alliance.
Sounds Innocent.
''Women's Hughes alliance sounds
innocent and harmless enough until
ere examines the personnel Of the
ORGANIZATION anu q A1N.ff'Aff $3.50 ~
represents the feminine side OF the
organized Morgan wealth of Wall St
The treasurer of the wOmen's COM
-nittee is Mrs. Mary Hartman Rum
sev. heiress 10 the millions OF the
late Edward IT, Hartman, railroad
magnate. and practical man OF
the DAYS when Theodore Roosevelt
received campaign funds from the
crooked business" which political
exigency later led him 10 denounce.
with Mrs. Rumsey on the finance
committee are Mrs. Robert Bacon,
W hose husband was transferred
from the house OF Morgan" 10 he
Roosevelt's assistant secretary Of
state and later ambassador To
France
Mrs. Bernard II. Ridder. wife OF
Of one OF the proprietors o. the New
York Staats-Zeitung, leader of the
German propaganda against Pres't
Wilson. and Mrs w. H. Crocker,
widow OF the California mining and
railroad multi-milnOnaire are MEM
Lers OF the party.
Train Fund Committee.
on the train fund committee are.
Mrs. Daniel Guggeuheim OF the
smelter trust. Mrs Cornelius Van
derbilt representing inherited mill
lions OF railroad capital; Mrs. Harry
Payne Whitney. daughter of the late
Cornelius Vanderbilt. Miss Maude
Wetmore OF the wealthy Rhode
Island family of that name, Mrs.
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ter OF Theodore Roosevelt. whose
husband Nicholas LOngworth. in
herited a large fortune. Many OF the
junketers who are going aloug 10 do
the speaking are professional WOm-
en- who have won their own way in
the world; women who could not af-
ford the luxury of special trains nor
the diversion OF campaigning with
out pay. but back Of them with their
money and the glamor that attaches
10 their gilded names are the women
standing as financial sponsors and
social background for this greatest
society show that was ever put on
" heels
some OF the wives and daughters
Of the super-rich will go along on
this mission and with their presence
Il not with their oratOry, VIII warn
the women Of the west who are al
ready voters. that their country can
not be saved" unless the women
cast their vote for the candidate of
plutOcracy.
Among These Present
The letter head from republican
campaign headquarters gives only
the names Of the train fund commit
tee as above. but besides them there
is an additional committee IN charge
OF this feature OF the Hughes cam
paign. ON this committee appears
in addition 20 the foregoing mem
berS. the followinE. Mrs. r. T..
Stotesbury. whose husband is a Phil
adelphia partner OF j. r. Morgan &
Co. MIS-. .. Fl. .Havemeyer. wife OF
the sugar trust and Standard oil
ularnate. Mrs Phoebe Hearst.
mother OF William Randolph Hearst.
owner of untold millions in Ameri-
can mines and Mexican plantations:
Mrs %. r. p. Belmont who has
undertaken 10 raise half a million
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