The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-28
ASTOR FINDS
SOME FEW TH0R&
American Born Peeress Now
Running for Commons Is
Learning Politics,

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 2S.-Lady Aston,
AineriCan-bo born candidate for the house
Of commons, Is perfectly amazed at the
lengths to which some nave gone In
the slanderous campaign against me, y
Politics is a rough game, the first
woman candidate for the English legis-
lature Is learning.
Today Nancy" Ms she is Familiarity
known among the people of Plymouth,
heard that some women ''have sheer
ingly said Lady Astor win kiss your
babies today, Splash them with mud
good
DO you women of Plymouth really
feel that wayF' she asked an audience
Of women,
Cleanse your hearts of hatred and
spite" pleaded Nancy Aston Hatred
is the most horrible of complaints. I've
had II myself and ] know
Until recently Lady Astor's oppon-
ents have carefully refrained from men
tioning her name. Now they are dig
party using as "A weapon the charge
that the Aston titles were bought with
American money for Americans.
j. ii. Thomas, organizer Of the rail-
way unions, telegraphed the laborites
urging the election of Gay, their can
didate, He asked every workman to
throw himself into the fight against
the forces Of privilege
Gay, in his speeches, says he hopes
voters will not be influenced by Lady
Aston because she Is a peeress, Gay
says he win win the election by 1000
plurality. Lady Astor's friends believe
she viii lead the field by hat number
and predict n vote of IA, 900 for her.
Charges and countcr-Charges have
been hurled regarding military service
Of the candidates, Laborites first as
sailed Lord Astor on the grounds that
he had not served In the army. Nancy
Astor stoutly defended her husband, as
sorting he volunteered five times and
had been rejected for physical reasons.
The Astorites accused Gay Of boasting
that he had evaded military Service.
! Gays comeback was:
u was medically rejected I've got
my certificate, | never heard anything
more Naturally | did not 20 UP and
say | wanted my skin taken off or my
head blown off. Nor did any other
man over the age Of those volunteering
enthusiasts, II I'd been n young man
| might have done the same,
Lady~Astor has 10 time for hecklers
now, and h has a new way of dis
posing of them.
III there are any professional ques-
llpltTS NtIt lltN can smut w, uOI I
want to hear them she tells her audi
ences,
A Plymouth politician said that IN
~ years experience he rad never seen
anything like this election for spirit,
Despite "A snowstnrm. Lady Astor drew
huge meetings this afternoon.
She visited the poorest quarters n
town. entering a broken-down house
which she, In an undertone, said re,
minded her OF "Wipers.'
"Wipers" Is the English Tommy
namo for battered Ypres, Flanders,
Lady Aston held her own against 9
hostile audience of qu%esttoners in tn,
gas works district, J
At one meeting she was asked II sh,
believed the lottery loan plan encour
aged gambling, She replied whimsical,
" that she did not believe so, judginE
A from The number OF people who bet OF
her husbands horses apd derby win.
ners,
Replying to a crowd Of railway work.
ers who tried to overwhelm her with
a storm of questions, Nancy Asto'
shouted hotly:
II want no insulting questions. |
you people are trying to break my spirit
you won't do H. | come from virgins
and am of good old English fightinG
| stock