The sun., 1918-10-27
Some of the Women Running for Office

IT is here. The bogy that men have
Il seen threatening them ever since
Susan b. Anthony began to agitate for
the vote has arrived. Women are run
ming for Office.
In the Empire State, where the more or
less fair sex has possessed the right Of
franchise less than one year, more than
one hundred spinsters and wives and
widows are romping up and down and
to and fro in their districts, blithely and
boldly demanding to be made Lieutenant
Governors, Secretaries of State, Coroners,
Town Clerks, Assemblywomen, State SEN
ators, Congresswomen of the United
States. Their respective parties are aid
ing and abetting them and some Of them
seem to have an excellent chance of win
ming on November 5. One baleful thing
about the whole business is that those who
are running against odds and don't ex-
pect to be elected are making their cam
paigns with the greatest zest, saying, oh,
well, we won't get In this time but it is
good practiee-it is important for Us
women to get the hang Of this-and the
next election you can just look out for the
women candidates!
Three Likely Winners in Their Races.
Three women who are said to have
q pretty good prospect of getting their
bite Of the political pie this year are Mrs.
Ida B. Sammis of Huntington, l. l., rum
ming for the State Assembly from the
Second district on the Republican and
Prohibition tickets; Mrs Mary Grey
Brewer of Staten Island, Republican,
who wants to represent the Twenty-fourth
district in the State Senate, and Mrs. Mary
NJ. Lilly, Democrat, who is trying 10 beat
Abram Ellenbogen for the Assembly in
the Seventh Assembly district.
Now Mrs. Lilly lives in what she de-
scribes as silk stocking Republican dis
trict, and the first time l saw her, which
was about two weeks ago at tea for
women candidates at the Fifth Avenue
Restaurant, she spoke with philosophic
pessimism of her chances.
give about as good a lookout to be
elected as the rest of you women eandi-
dates" she said with good natured sar-
easm-
Mrs. Lilly is a lawyer with a fairly
sharp mind and is onto the pleasant male
habit of handing out nominations to
women in districts where their parties
are regularly showed under at the polls.
felt sorry she wasn't going to the
Assembly, because when in the course of
that tea Miss Pauline Newman, whom the
Socialists nominated for Congress in the
Eighteenth district, got up and made
animadversions upon the United States
espionage laws, which resulted, she said,
in sending "our best citizens to JAIL" Mrs.
Lilly arose and dealt Socialist pacifsm
some heartfelt wallops that did my soul
good. Mrs. Lilly has son in the service
and will tolerate no nonsense about the
war, wherefore, and also because she is
suffragist and a good, solid, sensible
woman, I regretted that she had no
chance.
Suffragists Resent His Stand.
But now it seems that she has. had
it straight from Republican leader, who
knows what is what, that Mrs. Llly's
prospects are excellent, and the candidate
herself thinks so now and is making a
fight for it. According to my Republican
informant AssembIyman Ellenbogen, the
G. 0. p. candidate to succeed himself, is
an avowed anti-suffragist, and the women
of his district resent that.
Mrs. Lilly, at her new headquarters at
20l0 Broadway, pleasant room with the
biggest American flag ever saw on the
wall flanked by the picture of her SOL
der son, has gathered around her q
strong committee of women, which in
eludes a good many Republican names.
Among her committee women are DR..
Alma Arnold, Mrs. Simon Baruch, mother