Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-11
PRESIDENT IS HELD
PROTECTOR OF HOME"
Women Will Wage Campaign for
the Reelection of Mr..
Wilson.
Home Guards Will Meet to Arrange
National Appeal for Executive
Who Has Stunned War.

The Wilson Home Guards. organized
for the purpose of campaigning to re-
turn President Wilson for another
term because of his efforts in keeping
the country out of war, are to meet at
Congress Hall Hotel tomorrow morn
ing for the purpose of mapping out
plans for appealing to the women of
the country, according to an announce
ment made last night by Mrs. Marie
Keough, statistician for the sanitary
for Illinois of the Womans National
Democratic League.
Organized at the annual convention
of the Woman's National Democratic
League following a proposal by Mrs.
Keough, the organization plans to go
before the country and make fight
for the return of Wilson not as a dem
ocrat but as a man and protector of
the home. Mrs. Keough said that the
organization will work only for the
return of Wilson and will not neces-
sarily support or boost any other part
of the democratic ticket.
Has Protected Homes, Claim.
The women of the country are a
great power and their power will be
felt more at the coming elections than
ever BEFORE" said Mrs. Keough in dis
cussing her plans with reporter for
The Star. THE women in the home feel
that President Wilson has done much
for them in keeping their homes intact
by keeping the country out of war. He
has protected their homes, and for this
reason there are thousands of women
all over the country who will work for
~ of
Il have many letters from women all
over the country who are enthusiastic
about the idea of the Wilson Home
Guards, and they are eager to work
for a man who is striving to keep the
country out of strife. The truth OF
these statements will be felt during the
coming campaign, when the women Will
rise and make themselves force that
cannot be resisted.
Force Has Never Been Felt.
The force that women WELD has
never been felt before. If women had
known the powers they held at the Pc
Rod just before the opening OF the
civil war. they could have prevented
that struggle. Even when the Spanish
American war came the women had
not been able to make themselves felt,
but not SO now. These TWO expe-
riences have shown them what it means
to keep the home intact, and to keep
father and son there and away from
the battlefield.
81 have a grown son myself, and
know what it means, and l for one APP
preciate the acts of the President which
have prevented the country from being
thrown into strife with some foreign
nation. There are thousands of wom-
en- all over the country who feel the
same way about it, ard they stand
ready to work for the return of the
man who they feel has been the guard
ian of their homes.
"It will be Wilson. the man and pro-
tector of the home. for whom we will
work We will not necessarily work
for the election of the entire demo-
cratic ticket at the elections this year
Mrs. Keough displayed letters which
have come to her since she proposed
the organiza ton of the Wilson Home
Guards at the closing meeting of the
annual convention of the Woman's Ma
tional Democratic League in this city
Saturday, congratulating her upon heI
idea and pledging support to the
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