The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-10-17
WALL ST. WOMEN
TOUR FOR HUGHES
"SiIk Stocking, Poodle Dog Bri-
gade" OF 10 Invade West.
MAKES SUFFRAGE PRETENSE.

Many Members Of Party Travelling on
Train de Luxe Rcpudiated by Lead.
ers Of Women's Movement - Paid
Speakers to Do the Talking For
Them.
Wall Street is too busy harvesting
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, 10 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 Syra-
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, 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 National Hughes AL
lance
'Women's Hughes Alliance" sounds
innocent and harmless enough 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 H.
Hartman, railroad magnate and "prac-
tical man" Of the days when Theodore
Roosevelt received campaign funds
from the CROOKED business" which 20
Itical exigencies later led him to de
nounce.
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-
velt's assistant Secretary of State, and
later Ambassador to France; Mrs. Ber
nard II. Ridder, wifi 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 GugGenheim, of the Smell
ter Trust; Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt.
representing inherited millions of rail
road capital; Mrs Larry Payne Whit.
ney, daughter of the late Cornelius
Vanderbilt; Miss Maude 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 goine
along to do the speaking are profes
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 theiI
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 super-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 letterhead from Republican cam
paign headquarters gives only the
names of the Train Fund Committee
as above. but besides them there is All
additional committee in charge of this
feature OF the Hughes campaign.
Others In on the Junket.
On this committee appear, in addi.
tion to the foregoing members. the fol
lowing:
Mrs. E. II. Stotesbury, whose hus
band is Philadelphia partner of j. P.
Morgan & Co.; Mrs II. 0. Havemeyer.
wife of the Sugar Trust and Standard
Oil magnnte; 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 million dollars to defeat Presi-
dent Wilson: Mrs. John Hays Ham
mond, wife of the multl-millionaire
mining man; Mrs. Mary Dreier. Now
York society leader. of wealthy Ger
man family with strong antipathy to
President Wilson.
A leading attorney OF Pocatello, Ida,
writing to the Democratic National
Committee. says:
81 read with deep interest OF the prep
arations of the Silk Stocking. Poodle
Dog Feminine Brigade that is soon
to start OIL its million dollar special
across the continent to awaken the
enthusiasm of the mothers and women
who carry the burden of our national
s,ro, @,,.,se, a., tboir shoulders fO v0ta