Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-11-05
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Tor some time the real leader OF the woman SUI
Irage movement. She founded the International
Womans Suffrage association and she was serving
her second term president of the Natlonal-
American Suffrage association when it was re-
Gently merged into the League of Women Voters.
She is probably the leading spirit in this latter
organization. The league is nonpartisan. 1t is
well organized. Should it turn to the purpose OF
electing a woman president it has the membership
and the organization to make itself felt. The
Herald writer says of Mrs Gait, among other
things:
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait might be the log
fcal first president. We will not ask the
National Woman Suffrage association leader
whether she would consider accepting the nom
ination not. Her reply would spoil interesting
speculation. She has battled so long and earn
estly for the national franchise for women that
just now the only sort of life that appeals to her
is one spent among the chickens and trees and
solid home comforts of her farm at Briarcf If
you broached such thing to her running for
any public Office she might take it as a bit of
pleasantly Her blue eyes would smile at you and
the corners of her well-shaped mouth would curve
upward with 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
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 Iowa
town When Mr.. Gait died his wife took posi-
ton as advertising solicitor. Probably she set type,
just as did Senator Harding for his Marion news
paper and she knew all about the business end Of
Journalism.
"While soliciting advertising her attention was
drawn to the obstacles thrown in the way of the
sef-supporting woman. And the more she consid-
cred these the more she thought of helping to
move them. She allied herself with the suffrage
movement and just 20 years ago was 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 can
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 up If 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-
try She is kindly, sympathetic. considerate and
her mind has been trained to cope with the big
issues of the day. And she has an organization
the like Of which 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
1t might have the power to sway an election, If
brought to test"
The name of Miss Alice Paul, head of the Ma
tional Woman's party would probably be the next
to occur to those who have kept in touch with the
long suffrage struggle just ended. Concerning her
the Herald writer says in part:
ssWhat sort of president would Miss Alice Paul
make? She has large following though this
militant worker for the enfranchisement of Amer
lean women entered the fight recently, compared
with Mrs. Catt's long period of service. There are
women who assert that Miss Paul has presidential
qualifications, and in the event of her nomina-
ton she would be supported by members of the
National Woman's party, that organization Of