Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-09-04

not In any sense party var " w.
won through the efforts OF men tha
women Of all parties who onereo
their services to be used wherever
! best fitted for usefulness. MT.
Roosevelt declared it an insult 70 the
American people to say that either
party won the war.
The last issue mentioned by the
speaker was the League of Nations
The issus here, he said, is progress
against reaction. in the establishment
of peace and the league. Declaring
that the Democratic platform and
candidate propose to ratify the treaty
and enter the league. he added: we
will say definitely in the ratification
that nothing in the treaty or the
league can ever be held superior to
the Constitution of the United states
or to the right of Congress to send
our men overseas" He likened Sen
ator Harding's proposed substitute
for the league to a hospital at the
base Of the precipice of war. to care
| for the nations who fell over the
edge, and asked whether it would not
be better to build fence at the top
of the cliff to prevent them from fall
ing off altogether. The league is a
going concern. he declared. which
needs only the keynote, the United
! States, to complete it.
Through much of Mr.. Roosevelt's
talk ran a tendency to accuse the
Republicans Of careless treatment Of
the truth, and he asserted that they
have been dece!ving the people about
the voting strength of Great Britain
in the league. The Council run the
league. he said. and pointed out that
in that body both Great Britain and
the United States have one vote each.
He dsparaged the assembly as a
mere debating society to which the
little two by four nations" may
send delegates to talk and argue
and get it off their chest" He de-
clared that the little republics of
this hemisphere have always been
with US. and that in the league they
| will act with US. IF it comes to a
show down in the assem- bly, the Unit
ed States will have so many more
votes than Great Britain that some
body will write to the London Times
that Woodrow Wilson put it over on
Lloyd George" said Mr.. Roosevelt.
In closing he urged the Democrats
to read the papers on both sides, to
study the speeches of the candidates
and to compare their records. If they
did that he had no doubt about the
outcome of the election, he said,
| "A Alr
speech Chairman Plaisted took a few
minutes to address some remarks to
the women. He charged that the Re-
! publlcans in this city are confusing
the new voters by mixing up registra-
ton and enrolment He said tney are
taking their cue from Franz Ham
who ought to be down ut the State
prison doing what he is paid to do. in,
stead of spending his time and the
states money up here telling the Re-
publican women what to do He ac-
cused the chamber of com emrce Of
allowing it's clerk to practic. partisan
politics at City hall in connection with
the enrolment matter. He explained
that enrolment is rot necessary ex-
| cept for taking part in the primaries
and that it does not necessarily mean
that one must vote as he or she has
enrolled if one wishes to do other
wise. He also had a few things t. saw
! regarding Col. Parkhurst's remarks on
the Underwood tariff, on Henry Cabot
Lodge, the martyrdom of Wilson and
politics in general. He then intro
duced Mrs. Funk as a woman who mad
sat at the feet of Theodore Roosevelt
and learned wisdom.
Mrs. Funk
Mrs. Funk said that she thinks
| suffrage an especial boon to New
England women for they are resard-
ed throughout the land as the moth
ers of the nation. During the years
that she was working for suffrage
she heard over and over the old ar
sument: "Woman's place is in the
home" She said there is no cues
ton but that it is true, we are all
agreed on it, and she goes further
and declares that mans place is also
In the home sometimes Where is
"oman's home?' she asked sit is
Wherever she is when attending to
her duties to care for her children
and her husband. Mrs. Funk then
went on to show how every detail ~
a Woman's life at the present dav is
matter of political concern. from,
the milk in the baby's bottle up "a
the election of a President. She in.
sisted that people must rid them.
selves of the notion that the ballo,
VIII degrade women and demoralize
.heir households. If it is true that
'he polls. are as bad as thew a..
sometimes reputed to be, it is t;n,e
the housekeepers went to work anII
Cleaned them up" She said.
MRS. Funk related her own polit,.
cal history saying that she was horn
ana reared in a Republican atmos-
phele' mat she had been converted
20 Roosevelts progressivism. hut sha
Iaiieo 10 state why she is now
democrat She finds no fau,t ,v;.s
i'epuoilcan as an individual. hut al.
mas hotnlng but scorn and conts,,n.
Tor the old guard leaders Nh Up
says. control the party and it's cs,,
aioate' and among whom she n.n,as
renrose' Smoot. Lodge and Wsess
one went into some details Of b;s.ar,
.esarolns the fairly equitable dist;
outlon of wealth at the Close - 81.
oiVll war and said that within q IN
nao oeen concentrated in ths
hands of some 6o,an AZ inc