Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-11-09
WALL ST. WOMEN
TOUR FOR HUGHES
"Sik Stocking, Poodle Dog Bri-
gade" Off 10 Invade West.
MAKES SUFFRAGE PRETENSE.

WI linSI ! III ! IESSIs
Many Members of Party Travelling on
Train de Luxe Repudiated by Lead
ers of Women's Movement-Pa Paid
Speakers to Do the Talking For
Them.
Democratic prosperity to go campaign
ing-but it is sending its womenfolk.
The greatest aggregation of wealth
and social distinction ever represented
by fuss, feathers and femininity left
New York Monday, Oct. 2. by special
train de luxe, to tell their sisters Of the
West how they should vote. Many Of
these women, claiming to be equal suf-
frage workers, are %repudiated by lead
ers of that movement.
Stopping at Albany, Utica and SYRIA
cuse on their first day, the itinerary
takes the women's campaign train
through the principal cities of the
north route across the continent and
brings them back through Colorado.
Nebraska, Missouri and Kentucky, II
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 National Hughes AL
lance.
"Women's Hughes Alliance sounds
| innnpant and horrplncc nrorph until
one examines the personnel of the or
ganization and discovers that it repre-
sents the feminine side Of the organ
lied and Morganized wealth Of Wall
Street.
The treasurer Of the Women's Com
mittee is Mrs. Mary Hartman Rum
sey, daughter Of the late Edward III.
Hartman. railroad magnate and "prac-
teal man of the days when Theodore
Roosevelt received campaign funds
from the CROOKED business" which DO
litical eXigencies later led him to de-
ounce
These Provide the Funds.
With Mrs. Rumsey on the Finance
Committee are Mrs. Robert Bacon,
whose husband wa= translated from
the House of Morgan to be Roose-
velts assistant Secretary of State, and
later Ambassador to France; Mrs. Ber-
nard II. Ridder, wifo of one of the pro-
prietors of the New York Stats lei
tung, leader of the German propaganda
against President Wilson; Mrs. w. II.
Crocker, widow OF The California min
ing and railroad multi-millionaire.
On the Train Fund Committee are
Mrs. Daniel Gugsonheim, of the Smell
ter Trust; Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
representing Inherited millions Of rail
road capital; Mrs. Harry Payne Whit
ney, daughter of the late Cornelius
Vanderbilt; Miss Maudc Wetmore, of
the wealthy Rhode Island family of
that name; Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Long
worth. daughter of Theodore Roose
welt. whose husband is Nicholas Long
worth, Representative in Congress
from Ohio.
Many of the junketers who are going
along to do the speaking are profess
siOnal women who have won their own
way in the world-women who could
not afford the luxury of special trains
nor the diversion Of campaigning with
out pay. But back Of them, with their
money and the glamour that attaches
to their gilded names, are the women
standing as financial sponsors for this
greatest society show that was ever
put on wheels. Some Of these wives
and daughters Of the supcr-rich will go
along on this mission, and with their
presence, If not with their oratory, will
warn the women of the West-who
are already voters-that their country
cannot be saved" unless the women
cast their vote for the candidate Of plu-
tocracy.
The letterhcad from Republican cam.
paign headquarters gives only the
names Of the Train Fund Committee
as above, but besides them there is an
additional committee in charge of this
feature Of the Hughes campaign.
Others In on the Junket.
On this committee appear, in addi-
ton to the foregoing members, the fol
lowing:
Mrs. E. Il. S%totesbury. whose hus-
band is a Philadelphia partner of j. P.
NloiSdIl ~ w., MIS-. IL. ". enc
wife Of the Sugar Trust and Standard
Oil magnate; Mrs. Phoebe Hearst,
mother of William Randolph Hearst.
owner of millions in American mines
and Mexican plantations; Mrs. O. II. P.
Belmont, who has undertaken to raise
half a million dollars to defeat Presi-
dent Wilson; Mrs. John Hays Ham
mond, wife of the multi-millionaire
mining man; Mrs. Mary Dreier, New
York society leader. OF a wealthy Ger
man family with strong %antipathy to
President Wilson.