The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-31

trict Nomination. OF course. meant
election. and the Democrats were not
giving a sure district to woman
. Scores of women are running for State
and local offices in various pariA of the
country. In no less than five States Cali
except one safely Republican, the
Democrats have sought the favor OF the
women by putting one OF the sex on the
State ticket for Secretary OF State.
Miss Harriet May Mills OF Syracuse
is running In New York Miss Catherine
Doran OF Detroit. In Michigan: Ruth v.
Sumner of Dallas Corners. In Iowa: Mrs.
Fanny Dixon Welch OF Columbus, in
Connecticut. and Mrs. Nellie A. Hay
ward OF Douglas, in Arizona.
As for city. town and county offices.
from mayor to constable. there is
scarcely section of the country that
has not woman aspirant
For years women have been repre-
sented in the State Legislatures OF the
States, most of them Western, which had
granted woman suffrage. The number
OF woman lawmakers this year is divided
as follows: Arizona. two; California.
four: Colorado. three Idaho, two. Kan
sas. one; Montana. two; Nevada. one !:
New York. two: Utah. five: Washing
ton. one. All are in the lower branch OF
Colorado and one in Utah.
The first woman TO sit In the House
OF Representatives was Mss Jeanette
Rankin of Missoula. Mont. She was
elected to the Sixty-fifth Congress in
1916. Running at large In n Democratic
State In year when President Wilson
swept the West. Miss Rankin. on the Re-
publican ticket. carried Montana by a
plurality OF 5000 votes. The Wilson
plurality in the same State was $4,000 or
more
In 1918 she aspired to the United
States Senate. Encouraged by her sue
cess two years before. she entered the
Republican primaries but was defeated
by Dr. o. VI. Landstrum by LOO votes.
Not content to give up public life, how
ever. she accepted a nomination for the
Senate on the national party ticket. Her
defeat by Senator 7. J. Walsh. the Dem
ocratic nominee. was q foregone conclu-
sion, however. a4n
Ardent advocates of woman suffrage
sought to run a woman for the United
States Senate as early as 1914. They
begged Mrs. James J.. Brown of Denver
to go into the fight against Senator
Charles s. Thomas. Among those most
active m urging this was Judge Ben"
Lindsey. friend Of Col Rcose-eit. AS
stirred she could have the Progressive
backing as well as the Democratic NOM
ination. she gave the matter, much
thol ght but decided IL was too early for
women TO test their Senatorial wings.
Miss Martin I'm Her Second Fight.
Miss Anne Henrietta Martin of Nevada
shared with Miss Rankin the honor of
being one Of the first two women to run
FOR the Senate. Chairman OF the Ma
tional Woman's party in 1916 and fo-
two years legislative chairman in Wash
ington. Miss Martin went after the Re-
publican nomination In her State two
years ago. Failing, she ran as an mde-
pendent and gave her opponents ire
mendous race. polling In the sparsely
settled State of Nevada 5000 votes to
1900 for the winner. ~
She said then, as now, when again she
;s running on an independent ticket for
the Senate:
II believe the time has come when the
nation should attest its faith in democ-
racy and the power of self-government
Of all its people by the election OF q
woman to its highest legislative body
II believe the crucial problems which
this nation now faces are problems which
women can help solve and which Justice
demands they should have a voice In
solving. The welfare of women demands
their presence in both houses OF Con-
gyess, and the welfare of the nation de-
mands it,
Defeated for the Republican nominal
ton this year By Gov. T. l.. Oddie, Miss
Martin is putting up the same sort Of
independent fight she did two years ago.
Lovely blue eyes. hair that curls in
spite OF her efforts and enhancing DIM
pies" is a description Of Miss Martin by
famous Comstock Lode In Nevada. she
lived In the open as a child. later ex-
ceiling all women and many men In her
State in tennis and golf.
Having received liberal education In
the University OF Nevada, Leland STAN
ford and Columbia, she later studied
abroad at Cambridge and Leipsic. She
loves music and has studied art under
William NJ Chase In this city.
Energetic to the last degree. In her
campaign two years ago Miss Martin
motored over wretched. IN some cases al
most impossible roads so she might
reach every part OF the State. She really
covered the entire territory two or three
times. much to the amazement OF the
veteran campaigners.
Mrs. BooIe Assnils the VETS.
A woman candidate IN whom New
York IL much interested Is Mrs Ella A.
Boole of Brooklyn. She fought for the
Republican Senate nomination against
Senator James w. Wordsworth. Jr. Her