The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-03-04

Does Not Attend New York
Speech, but States Prin-
ciples Of Their Party.

New York, March 3.-Nriss Jeanette
Rankin, who win he officially recog-
ntzed by the speaker Of the next house
Of representatives when she takes her
seat in Washington as 1.-THE Lady
from Montana" spoke on Democracy
and Government" last night In Carr
negie hall. 70 an audience composed
mostly of suffragists.
Miss Rankin's lecture related to con-
tiitiOns in her native state and to wom-
an suffrage. child welfare and indus.
trial questions. She did not touch
upon conditions which will confront
the next congress-
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. who
was asked to attend but could not. sent
a letter IN praise of the Republican
party upon whose ticket Miss Rankin
was elected
An Independent.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. who pre-
sided. introduced Miss Rankin as one
Of the seven independent members Of
the next congress who will be tho bal
ance Of power.
Those who attended out OF curiosity
to see the first congresswoman, saw a
nlensant-faced young woman dressed
in a white evening gown with mouse
colored trimming.
She spoke easily. without notes. and
discussed the present day political ma
chinery with the ease of an old time
politician.
Her hearers predicted after the
meeting that the fact that she was a
woman was not the only reason why
her appearance in congress to speak on
different measures would attract at
tention.
Some reports have had 1t that
campaigned the state on horseback"
she said. CAS- a matter of fact l
travelled on trains and automobiles.
took one trip OF 400 miles across the
Rockies on an electrified train"
coIonelx Letter.
Colonel Rooscvelt's letter to Miss
Rankin sabl:
Dear Miss Rankin:
II wish I could be present at your
lecture. AS that is impossible. let me
wish you all success.
81 most earnestly hope that you and
those like you will make and keep the
Republican party loyal to the spirit Of
Abraham Lincoln and in every truth
the party of nationalism and genuine
democracy; the party which stands for
the rights of every man, woman and
child within our national borders and
which in return exacts from every
full grown man and woman the fullest
performance OF duty to the nation.
both in peace and war: the party which
is to make this nation the land where
love and justice go hand in hand,
which stands for fair play within our
borders. for insistence upon our rights
as against any nation which wrongs
us and for the prepared strength, spir-
itual and material, which will both
make us do justice to ourselves and to
insist upon justice being done by the
strong to the weak--in other words.
both ourselves to do and demand that
others do, international duty in the
spirit in which men who are both
strong and just behave in their rela-
tions with their fellows.
with good wishes. sincerely yours.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
Ooesn't Attend Ball.
An enthusiastic press agent an
nounced today that Miss Rankin would
be a star terpsichorean feature at a
suffrage ball the admission being two
tickets for 81.
But Miss Rankin's press agent de-
MED this pointing out that while Miss
Rankin might not be an Irene Castle
| she nevertheless possessed the pedal
deftness that was worth at least 81 o
ticket. consequently she did not appear
at the dance,