The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-10-13

unprecedented majority of sixty-five
thousand for the Republican nomin-
ees." To more or less flippant New
York Photographer the result is at
least proof. that the Republicans in
Maine "have better control of
their wives and daughter than
the Democrats. More seri-
ously, a Republican woman quoted in
the New York Times calls attention
to the wives and daughters of Maine
Democrats who must have voted Re-
publican, and declares: "The Maine
result shows that women may inherit
their politics, but do not marry them.
1t disproves the fallacy that women
vote with their husbands and proves
that they vote the way they think
they ought to vote"
Republican editors and Republican
politicians Of both sexes insist that the
women of Maine have shown where the
Women of the country stand on the
League of Nations issue. The women,
says Mrs. Arthur L. Livermore, a
worker in the Republican National
campaign, have come to "realize that
the League of Nations is league of
some nations, governed by few ma
tiGns for the benefit Of fewer nations"
Or, to quote another Republican COM
paigner, Miss Helen Varick Boswell:
"The big percentage of women vot-
ing against the Wilson League of Ma
tons is significant. Women want
some sort of a league, but they want
a league that will leave Americas
self respect unin1paired, that will al
low her to stand with and help the
Allies she fought with, instead of tying
her hands, as the Wilson League would
do, so that she would be helpless to
aid herself or her Allies. Under a
Republican Administration they feel
something will be accomplished and a
league that the nation can accept with
honor will be brought about"
Senator Harding not unnaturally
declares himself frankly delighted
with the result in Maine. and especial
~ with the manner in which the wo-
men exercised their right of suffrage"
They voted, he says, 'as American CT
tiZens and not as a sex" According to
Chairman Will H. Hays Of the Repub-
lican National Committee, the women
demonstrated their dapendability in
this crisis"
Until Maine spoke, observes The
Wall Street Journal which is sup
porting Harding, "at least one thing
in the Presidential campaign remain
ed open, and offered possibilities of
the uneXpected"-
This was the unknown complexion
Of the new womens vote If the wo-
men were sentimentally moved by the
formlcss platitudes Of the League and
its promised millennius, there was no
question that there were enough of
them to swing the country's vote to
the Democratic side and to elect anoth-
or administration like that which has
the country for the past eight
years.
But after the election in Maine this
hope vanishes. The largest pluralities
ever recorded there prove that our wo-
men are voting not on vicious sex
ines, but under the dictate of sober
common sense. They have gone ov-
erwhelmingly Republican. The Maine
Democratic vote is about that of nor
nal years. But the Republican vote
IS portentously larger, and prove that
me women have considered the Demo-
ratio claims and will have none OF
chem"
To the Manchester Union (Rep) it
seems nightly significant that 9Th
women who were going to save the
eague of Nations, because it would
keep US cut of war helped roll up III"
majority against a project calculated
% cmbr0il US in wars"
'The sort of mush about the Ieagu,
Y hich Mr.. Cox has talked glibly" was
so the New York Tribune contend
mot counted upon to prevail with tn
male intellect, but there were frank
hopes that the woman voter would fall
for it. So the Maine campaign wa
conferred upon this issue" And, CON
.inues this Republican daily,
"1'he result explodes this fatuous
expectation beyond possibility Of re-
eve do not suppose the Maine re
ult will end the Cox campaign Of mis-
to convince the women
If America that the only possible Lea
rue is the Wilson league, unamended. |
But it should afford d solid cud for
to chew on in planning fu- !
ure appeals to the women of the coun-
,ry. Cut out the mush and talk sense !
hard, practical sense might not be
1 bad summary Of the moral to date
But the New York Globe will not be /
ieve those Republican editors who
assert that the Republican victory in
Maine was an anti-League triumph. |
n its opinion
"a simpler reply would be that the
Maine vote was a voice against Pres !
dent Wilson as a personality and the
Democratic regime as it has become |
Identified with him. There is doubt
ess in Maine as in other places a feel