Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-10-10
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her further claim as daughter Of
Julia Ward Howe, author of "The Bat.
tie Hymn OF, the Republic Mrs. e.
lott, who lives at Newport, or there
about, and who processes to be a
farmer, "in q small way"-a very
Dresdenlike farm it must be-told
how providence" had called her to
this task, via long distance. She
spoke of her distinguished mothers
admiration for Judge Hughes. Her
tribute to North Dakota was beauti-
full creation, worthy the pen OF that
immortal parent. This has been the
greatest day Of our trip" Mrs. Elliott
said, in part. when we awoke this
morning, something had happened.
There was q new sky; a different at
mosphere; rare elixir in the air
Care and fatigue had disappeared
it was a new world that greeted US,
and such a new world. of vast dis.
tances, great sweeps of rolling prai.
ries; great, big-hearted, wholesome
people. Many years ago-when l was
quite young crossed the prairies to
California. | can't describe the change
that has taken place. We were or.
dered to sleep, but we did not. Not
an eye left your splendid fields from
Fargo to Bismarck today. And when
we steamed into the glorious sunset,
into your beautiful Capital City, and
were whirled away to the capitol, to
the statue Of Sakakawea, emblem of
the loyalty Of the women Of your
state; when we found ourselves at
your wonderful Country club, with
the grand sweep of the Missouri be.
low us; with Old Fort Abraham Lin.
coin and its memories of Custer in
the distance-and the prairies, the
wonderful prairies, so near, and yet
so far when compared with the lux
uries which surrounded us, and yet
serving In their nearness to make the
conquest more impressive-and when
We sat down to that glorious dinner,
served b. Mrs. Hughes. who shall
ever after be to me Diana OF the
Ducks and were served with a whole
duck apiece, many of which we're
proof Of the craftsmanship Of our
costess-a whole duck. where hereto.
fore we had regarded ourselves for
tunate to get wing-then we felt
that the day, indeed, was complete"
Likes Hughes for His Friends.
I'VE Judge a man by his friends, u
said Mrs. Elliot, and she proceeded to
enumerate the great men who are
friends and supporters Of Charles
Evans Hughes. At her mention Of
Theodore Roosevelt there was a
thunderclap Of applause. She paid
her respects to various members u
Wilson's cabinet, and closed with 4
plea that the women of North Dakota
organize a Hughes alliance whose
duty 1t will be to see that every votel
registers and turns out In November
with vote for every, candidate on
tho ticket.2n' II i1f% 49,
Mountain Climber for Hughes.
Miss Anna 8. Peck, who has climb
ed the highest mountain in either Of
the Americas, reaching greater alti
tude than any other man in the
world except the Due d. Abruzzi, and
who is an authority on conditions II
Latin.Americs, spoke scathingly o.
Wilson's blunders in Mexico. Foul
years ago, she declared, she cam
paigned for Wilson, and for the past
three years she has been sorry that
she did. She asserted that Wilson
prosecuted Huerta, the only man cap
able Of governing Mexico. to hit
death; that his "course, We cannot
dignity 1t by calling h 1t his policy,
had been responsible for the deaths
Of hundreds of Americans in Mexico
and that 1t constituted zone Of thu
blacklist chapters In the history o.
the United States
Miss Peck. who has spent the last
ten months in South America, lectur
ing in Spanish and Portuguese OF
United States trade relations, declar
ed that America is degraded there
and that it is discredited in Europe
and that as result of Wilson's course
1t has no friend anywhere.
What Illinois Does.
Mrs. William Severance, a member
of the National Women's committee
from Chicago, told what Illinois wo
men are doing politically, and asked
that North Dakota women organize
and take their part In the present
campaign. She complimented thu
North Dakota Non-Partisan league
and said that Hughes. should receive
the Independent vote Of all parties
interested in good government.
Edyth Ellicott Smith, a woman far
mer from Pennsylvania and gradu
ate of Cornell, discussed the cam
paign from the farmers standpoint
She told of the struggle Of the
Pennsylvania farmers to get an ade
quate return for their products.
"You farmers here" she said
make thousands where We only make
hundreds of dollars. Here in the west
lies the hope Of the eastern farmer
Your wonderful Non-Partisan lague
is making the fight that will assist in
emancipating the eastern farmer"
Mrs. Raymond Robbins of Chicago
a great labor leader who lives in the
eleventh floor of Z tenement in Chi
cago's most congested district, clos.
ed the program with q most eloquent
dissertation on the issues of the day
as regarded by the industrial worker.
She demanded Justice especially for
the underpaid woman laborer and ex.
pressed the belief that justice will
insured by the election Of Hughes.