Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-21
NOT RADICAL.


These are few Of tie planks in Anne
Martins platform. IL is the most adj
vaneed platform so far offered By q can
didate for the senate Yet Miss Martin
docs not consider herself a Socialist, nor
radical She conforms 20 no party lines.
She saws her platform is the result Of years
of study here and abroad, and Of con-
tinrious thought as to the best ways tn
bring about % more equal distribution OF
opportunity.
Anne Martin SAYS she cannot remen-
her when she first became Interested IN
politics Her father and brother were both
Republican members OF the Nevada
Senate. and she was accustomed 10 hear
ing the affairs Of the State and the nation
discussed at home When she was
graduated from college she became
professor OF history in the University OF
Nevada. Later she Travelled abroad to
study history and government IN the
Universities Of London and Leipzig.
Until this time she had been altogether
n student. though woman college pro-
lessor 20 years ago Was as much OF an
innovation as a woman lawnaker is today
II was probably her experiences abroad
which distracted Miss Martins attention
from the theories of government and
focused it on the practice For she was
in London when the British suffragettes
were making life exciting for the British
police and public.
Il came to see" Miss Martin says,
that the tactics of the British suffragsts
were psychologically sound. They could
have a mass meeting OF $4,000 and not
get line in the papers next day. But
when they picketed and spoke up in Parlla-
ment and got arrested, there were long
stories about them on the front pages of
the newspapers. All over the world people
heard about it and saw that suffrage was
a live issue
Anne Martin did not picket, nor heckle
any reactionary lawmakers, but she did
ioin one delegation to the Prime Minister,
and she did get arrested.
SHE MAS ARRESTED ONCE.
The delegation, it seems, turned into a
sort of riot, for the Home Secretary,
Winston Churchill, ordered the police not
TO arrest the women if possible, but TO tire
them out. While an army of policemen
were Worrying the delegation, Anne Mar
tin, who was not very militant by tenn
permanent, stood in doorway trying to
protect rather frightened little old lady
from the mob A policeman ordered her
TO move on, which she refused to do, say
ing that she was not interfering with
traffic She was arrested along with over
a hundred other women.
The climax to the episode came when
Miss Martin was rescued by Herbert
Hoover, who had been one of her class
mates at Leland Stanford University.
Hoover opinion of militant suffrage was
as much of mystery then as some of his
other political beliefs are just now, but
he was 'for" Anne Martin in any circum-
stances, and had her bailed out imme-
diately
On her return to the United States she
became one of the hardest workers in the
campaigns that put woman suffrage and
prohibition into Nevada law.
Then in 1918, when the death Of
Senator Newlands left vacancy in the
Senate, she announced her candidacy.
Ordinarily a political aspirant wedges
into the House of Representatives more
easily than into the higher body. Ne
vada 5 population, however, supports only
one Representative, SO that the would-be
Congressman from Nevada has to carry
the entire State TO enter either House or
Senate.
Anne Martin ran as an Independent,
which resulted in a split in the Republican
vote, and gave the election to the Demo-
cratic candidate She received 5000
votes the Republican 5000, and the
Democrat 10000. This year she hopes
that the Republicans viii offer her the
nomination on her platform. Otherwise
she viii again run Independently
WANTS WOMEN IN Politics.
Il wish more women would run for
Congress she said The women of this
country have To bear as many response
bilities as the men, and they are needed