The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-11-06

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for some time the real leader or the woman SUI
frage movement She founded the Internauon"1
Woman's Suffrage association and she was SERVING
her second term president Of the Nauon"t
American Suffrage association when II was re-
Gently merged into the League of Women VOTERS
She is probably the leading spirit In this iaUer
organization. The league Is nOnpartisan- IL -
well organized. Should 1t turn to the purpose oA
eiecting a woman president II has the memDersn'p
and the organization to make itself feit- tHe
Herald writer says Of Mrs. Gait among o'ner
things:
Mrs Carrie Chapman Gait might be the log
zeal first woman president We will not ask the
National Woman Suffrage association leader
whether she would consider accepting the non-
nation not Her reply would spoil Interesting
speculation. She has battled so long and so earn
estly for the matte -lal franchise for women that
Just the only sort of life that appeals to her
is one spent among the chickens and trees ana
solid home comforts Of her farm at Briarclf. II
you preached such. thing to her as running for
any public Office she might take it as bit or
pleasantly Her blue eyes would smile at you and
the corners of her well-shaped mouth '-ould curve
upward with an expression of amusement.
However. candidates have been forced into
nomination This might happen to the suffrage
leader If the pressure Of her 100000 adherents
were directed toward such an end. There is no
woman in the United States better known than
Mrs. Gait.
Like Senator Harding and Governor Cox she
has had editorial experiences, having assisted her
husband in editing daily newspaper in an Iowa
town When Mr.. Gait died his wife took a posi-
ton as advertising solicitor. Probably she set type.
lust as did Senator Harding for his Marion news
NAPIER, and she knew all about the business end Of
journalism
"while soliciting advertising her attention was
fbo ohsfa in he NJ he
seIf-supporting 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 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 woman. Mrs. Gait
was 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 were a presidential candidate. She Is
stateswoman 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-
trv She is kindly sympathetic consderate 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 a test"
The name of Miss Alice Paul, head of the Ma
tionaI woman's party would probably be the next
to occur 10 those who have kept in touch with the
long suffrage struggle just ended. Concerning her
the Herald writer says in part:
what sort of president would Miss Alice Pau
make? She has large following. though this
militant worker for the enfranchisement of Amer.
lean 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 tie event of her nomina-
ton she would be supported by members Of the
National Woman's perry, that organization OF