The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-02
Editorial
of the Day
HOW OLD Is ANN IN POLITICS?
CFrom the Woman Citizen


A hundred years ago women were
fierce partisans of Andy jackson
in his race for the presidency, and
followed his lead for economy by
wearing calico dresses with medallions
OF his head stamped on it. As Jack
son was democrat and there was no
republican party, ii is hard to say
in which political group womHn's
participation began.
The advent of women into republi-
can party politics seems to date back
to 1888, during the campaign of Ben
jamin Harrison. Women then, appar.
emily for the first time, issued cam
paign literature. A series of pamph-
lets appealing to women and men alike
was prepared. They were known as
the Home and Flag" series.
In 1894 republican women entered
heartily into an anu-Tamany cam.
paign in Greater New York. Re.
publcans and liberal democrats united
on a fusion candidate, Mrs. Jose,
phine Shaw Lowell organized the
women who arranged meetings and
financed themselves. The fusion forces
won.
The following year, 1895, Miss Hell
gate from New York to the conven.
tion of the national league OF republi-
can clubs in Chicago. So unprece.
dented was this step that it was
deeped necessary for her TO take
chaperon to the convention. At that
time women voted only in Idaho. Utah,
Colorado and Wyoming.
In 1896. the year of the Mckinley
campaign, the New York state repub-
lican committee opened headquarters
for women on Broadway. This was
the first time women Of New York
took an active part in a presidential
campaign. Campaign music was es.
pecially adapted for women just
about this time. When women spoke
at political meetings the band always
played Her Golden Hair Was Hang.
ing Down Her Back
During that year the women started
the tenement house method of cam.
pai@ng, starting AT the bottom Of
one building and going up until the
roof was reached. when the trip across
the roof and the descent into the next
building would begin Hordes Of, moth.
ers and babies followed the speakers
through the tenements.
Womens headquarters were main.
tanned by the republican national com.
mittee in Chicago and Denver dur
ins this campaign.
At the republican convention in Phil.
adelphia in 1900, when Mckinley was
renominated, a large number OF wom-
en- was present and special women
offices were maintained. Then it was
that Colonel Roosevelt was animated
for the e-presidency.
President Mckinley appointed the
first woman to hold a national office
of Oregon. as national superintendent
of Indian schools.
In 1912, when the democrats for the
first time brought women into the
campaign, women were also exceed.
ingly active in the republican and in
the newly formed progressive party.
In 1916, when Charles Evans Hughes
was the candidate Of the republican
party women were voting in many
states. They campaigned in true poll.
tical fashion
In 1920, women win have a Hg
share in platform making for the re.
publican party. Nineteen women have
been appointed members of the plat.
form and policies committee to aid
in presenting ideas for the platform
which the republican party will adopt
in June.
Mrs John Glover South Of Kentucky
and Mrs. Manley Foster of Minnesota,