Graham guardian., 1916-09-29
SAILING UNDER FALSE
COLORS

AS evidence to prove our con-
tention that Mrs. St. Claire
Thompson and Miss Helen Todd,
representatives of the Woman's
Congressional Union, are not
visiting the cities and towns of
Arizona in the interest of wo-
mans suffrage, but for the pur-
pose of securing woman votes
for republican candidates, and
that they are being paid for their
services by the National Republi.
can Committee, through an Or
ganization of the wealthy women
of the East, wives of millionaire
republicans and supporters of
the republican candidate for pres
ident, Charles +. Hughes, we
give herewith statement of
facts that proves beyond a doubt
that Mrs. St. Clair Thompson
and Miss Helen Todd are sailing
under false colors:
with performance balanced
against promise, and with wo-
men of intellectual prominence
pitted against women of mere
wealth, the Woman's Bureau of
the Democratic National Com.
mittee has entered into battle
with the Congressional Union on
the field of the twelve suffrage
states.
''Blazoning the social reform
record of President Wilson and
the democratic congress just
adjourned against the veto rec
ord of Charles Evans Hughes,
during his term as governor of
New York, the Woman's Bureau
has prepared to combat the mil
lions of dollars which Mrs. Harry
Payne Whitney, Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt and Mrs. Daniel Gug-
genheim, of New York, will rep
resent on the special train on
which they will tour the west,
by sending broadcast the testi-
mony of Miss Ida Tarbell, the
greatest woman publicist in the
country; Mrs. Ella Flagg Young,
former superintendent of schools
of Chicago and eminent educator
Mrs. Belva Lockwood, leader of
the peace party and only woman
ever on ticket as candidate for
president of the United States;
Mrs. Antoinette Funk, former
leader of the Illinois progressives,
and scores of other famous pub
lic-spirited women who have
broken away from party ties or
non-partisan silence to declare
themselves for Woodrow Wilson.
1.-The democratic party is fun
damentally opposed to the British
rotten-borough methods adopted
by the Congressional Union in
campaigning in the suffrage
states. Mrs. George Bass, chair
man of the Woman's Bureau, de-
clares, The campaign which the
Woman's Bureau is directing is
leaving the conduct of local af-
fairs absolutely to the local lead
ers. We are merely aiding them
by counsel, by literature and by
publicity. We will hold confer
ences of the state organization
chairmen, but we will send out
no flying column, no special
trains, no multimillionaire spec
tacles for the enlightenment of
western women voters. We are
perfectly willing to trust our
cause to the intelligence of the
women who will vote at the No
vember election.
when the thinking women of
the country come voluntarily
away from their parties or out of
their neutral policy of silence on
politics to speak for Woodrow
Wilson, they are actuated by rea-
sons that are influencing women
everywhere.
They know that Woodrow
Wilson kept peace with honor,
and because women know and
pay the ultimate cost of war,
they are grateful to him.
They know that Woodrow
Wilson brought about the passage
of the Child Labor Law, and be-
cause women know what millions