New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

IS one OF the highest type OF women
voters, we'll up on all political plays.
However, that case proves nothing,
for the time was when we'll known
Republican Of another state con-
fided to the writer that he had
registered as a Democrat in order to
cast his vote for one of his friends
in the primary, where lay the fight.
Voting for
Their Own Sex
Will women vote for women,
everything else being equal, simply
to further the political progress of
their sex7 1t has seemed so in a
number of cases. Back in the early
days Of women's voting in Kansas a
woman lawyer ran for the Supreme
Bench of the state. She was an in
nocuous person against whom moth
Ing could be said except that she
oidn't know anything about the law.
Seven or eight persons had been
nominated, of whom three were to be
elected to the Supreme Bench. The
men nominated represented the
best talent in the legal profession in
the state. The woman was known
as "queer" in her home town, and she
had never tried a case or drawn
contract to the knowledge Of any
one. She had no Office and had to
employ an attorney to draw her
petition for nomination. In the
election this woman ran fourth, and
for a time it looked as if she were
going to run third. She outran some
Of the best attorneys in the state
and lost the election by only q few
votes.
The reason for her phenomenal
poll was the voting women Of the
state, from all that could be found
out. AS is usually true, only the
persons from her home town knew
her. The voting women looking over
their ballots in the silence Of the
canvas booths, saw a woman's name
among the prosaic masculine ones.
1t appealed to their imagination and
to their love Of ,Ah;ety, and they
voted for her Simply because she
was a woman. They stated also, in
discussing their votes, that they
thought 1t would be a fine thing to
have woman as Judge.
Something of this feeling, strength
ened by her reputation for sound
record as an attorney, will probably
be an asset in the campaign Of
Bertha Rembaugh, who is a candi-
date for Municipal Court judge in
the 1st District in New York this
fall on the Republican ticket. An
other woman Is also on the ticket
for this election-Caroline l.. Strobel
as Socialist nominee.
In New York
County
Other women candidates for Office
in New York County this fall are.
For Acknowledgements L. Smith
Republican, in the 10th District;
Mary McVicker, Socialist, in the 23d
District, and Mary M. Lilly, Demo
crat, in the 7th District. For Alder
man--Anna M. Sloan, Socialist, ir
the LIST District; Rachel Panken, So
cialist, In the I'd District; Margare,
A. Britt, Prohibition, in the 9Th Dis
trict; Bertha n. Mailly, Socialist, ir
the 18th District, and Theresa S
Malkiel, Socialist, in the 25th Dis.
trict.
Mrs. Lilly Is running for her sec.
ond term. And on Long Island Mrs
Ida B. Sammis is up for reelection
There are few new women in the
field upstate besides Miss Dicker
man. Ella Preston is running fol
the Assembly on the Socialist ticke'
in Binghamton; Kate T. Griffin, or
the Democratic, In Beacon, Dutchess
County; Martha Kleine, Prohibition
and Mrs. Sarah N. Bradshaw, Demo
crat. In Buffalo; Elsie Llnderberg
Socialist, in Niagara Falls; Kate w
Gates, Prohibitionist, in GAINESVILLE
Onondaga County; Luella B. Clark
Democrat, in Oneonta, Otsego Coun
tyi Miriam Goodman, Socialist, in tht
9th District Of Queens; Elizabeth
Van r. Gillette, on the Democratic
ticket in Schenectady, and Bernetta
Bowman, Socialist, in Larchmont.
HANNAH MITCHELL.
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