New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
HACH fall nnds a few more
New York women with their

y New York women with their
hats in tho ring Of politics.
Even before women could vote a
few brave feminists got their names
on the ballots each year and were
regularly showed under on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday In
November, II they lasted through
the primaries.
Once or twice stories came from
the Middle West and the Far West
OF women who had been elected to
office; one was a state Legislator, an
other was sheriff, and several
were county school superintendents.
But for years these tales of Office
holding women west of the Missis-
sippi River were merely feature
page articles, attracting the eye for
moment because they seemed
startling and new.
Since New York women got the
vote more Of them have run for Of
flee than in any other state in the
same length Of time. The woman
candidate for Office has passed from
the feature page Of the Sunday
newspapers to the political sections
Of the dailies. Announcements that
women will run for seats in the As
sembly, for Congress, for judgeships
and even for the United States SEN
ate are not sensations nowadays.
Brooklyn-"the City Of
Baby Carriages"
There are more than twenty-five
women running for the state Assem-
bly, In New York this fall. The
largest number of these candidates
are in Brooklyn. It will be inter-
esting to see whether the city of
baby carriages and rubber plants
will keep its reputation for domes-
ticity in the face Of feminine politi-
cal ambition.
The women out for Office this fall
in Brooklyn are Mary j. Mckee, on
the Prohibition ticket In the 1st AS
sembly District; Gladys Eakins,
Prohibition, in the I'd Assembly Dis
trict; Gertrude We'll Klein, Social
ist. in the 4th Assembly District;
Mollie Rumpler, on the Socialist
ticket, and Florence E. Tabor, Pro-
hibition, in the llth District; Susie
Hughes, Prohibition, In the 18th
District; Martha Irvine, Prohibition,
in the 18th District; Bertha R. Wat
son, Prohibition, in the 21st Dis
trict; Emily Peterson, Prohibition,
in the 22d District For alderman
Jeanette Glassberg is running as a
Socialist in the 43d District; Eva
Miller, on the Republican ticket, in
the 44th District; Sue A. Mulhol-
land, Democrat, in the SD District;
Margaret Lenhart, Socialist, in the
57th District.
When women first began running
for Office many Of them came out as
Socialist candidates. In most cases
they ran on the weak ticket Of the
district They are keeping this up,
winning their places gradually in
the of1ceholding world by coming
through this way. The few women
candidates who are not on tho So.
clalist or Prohibition ticket are
Democrats running In strong Re.
publican districts or Republicans II
strong Democratic districts. Time
and again these old strongholds suf
fer reaction from their blind de-
votion to party, split tickets and the
minority party gets some one inte
Office for term or two. It is be
heved by many that this Is the
situation In Oswego County, where
Marion Dickerman Is running
against Speaker Sweet. The dis
trict is Republican stronghold, bu
even the conservatives are becom
ing restive. and It Is believed Mis-
Dickerman has a chance to win.
Tho New
Element
A new element enters into thi
perennial overturn which is suffered
in any one-party district: that O.
the new voters. Women In New
York have not yet become a stabl
part OF the voting public. OF cours
1t remains to be seen whether the,
ever will. Women Of political expe
rience In states that have had woma,
suffrage for years say that mos
women split their tickets and tha
they go right on splitting them yea
after year. Women voters have littl
feeling for the party emblem fetisl
In discussing registration one c
New York's most understanding pt
litlcal workers said last week tha