Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1920-11-05

for some time the real leader woman sur
frage movement. She founded the International
Woman's Suffrage association and she was ser''ns
her second term president of the Natioh"f
American Suffrage association when 1t was re-
Gently merged into the League Of Women VOTERS.
She Is probably the leading spirit In this ia''er
organization. The league is nonpartisan y y
we'll organized Should 1t turn to the purpose oi
clecting woman president 1t has the memoersn'p
and the organization to make itself feits me
Herald writer says Of Mrs Gait. among otner
things:
"AIrs. Carrie Chapman Gait might he the log
zeal first woman president We will not ask the
National Woman Suffrage association leader
whether she would consider accepting the NOM
nation or not. Her reply would spoil interesting
speculation. She has batted SO long and so earn
estly for the national franchise for women that
just now the only sort of life that appeals to her
is spent among the chickens and trees and
solid home comforts of her farm Mt Briarclin. IL
you preached such thing to her as running for
any public Office she might take II as a bit OF
pleasantly. Her blue eyes would smile at you and
the corners of her well-shaped mouth would curve
upward with expression of amusement.
However candidates have been forced into
nomination. This might happen to the suffrage
leader IL the pressure of her 2,O000O0 adherents
were directed toward such an, end. There Is no
woman in the United States better known than.
Mrs. Gait. ~
has had editorial experiences, having assisted her
husband In editing a daily newspaper in Iowa
town. When Mr.. Gait died his wife took POSI-
ton as advertising solicitor. Probably she set type
Just as did Senator Harding for his Marion news
paper and she knew all about the business end Of
journalism.
.while soliciting advertising her attention was
drawn to the obstacles thrown in the way OF the
self-supportng woman. And the more she consid-
cred these the more she thought of helping to re-
move them She allied herself with the suffrage
movement and just 20 years ago was elected pres
ident of the National American Woman Suffrage
association.
"New York women voters have been urged BY
their suffrage leaders not TO vote for woman
didate Just because she Is a woman. Mrs. Gait
wns one of the first to give this advice. Fitness
for Office is the great test according to their idea
The question Of sex would hardly come up II Mrs
Gait we're a presidential candidate. She Is
stateswoInan of broad and generous vision. stu
dent of international affairs: she has Travelled
around the world and has been closely associated
with men and women Of nearly every foreign coun-
fry She is kindly sympathetic considerate. and
her MIND has been trained to cope with the big
issues Of the day. And she has an organization
the like Of which no man running for president
ever had to support him.
..When the women really enter politics.. both
state and national, the men will begin TO realize
the sort of organization these vote yearners have
been building up for more than score of years.
II might have the power to sway an election, II
brought to test"
The name of Miss Alice Paul. head of the Ma
tiona woman's party would probably be the next
TO occur to those who have kept in-f0uch with the
long Suffrage struggle just ended Concerning her
the Herald writer says in part:
sWhat sort of president would Miss Alice Paul
make? She has large following though this
militant worker for the enfranchiseinent of Amer
fcan women entered the fight recently. compared
with Mrs. Cats long period Of service. There are
women who assert that Miss Paul has presidential
qualifications, and in the event Of her nomina-
ton she would be supported by members Of the
National Woman's party. that organization Of