New-York tribune., 1920-09-12
Mrs. Boole to
Carry Fight to
November Polls
n She Is Not Nominated
BY Republicans for u. S.
Sesate She Will Rum as
Prohibition Candidate
Homes to Beat Wadsworth
ssys She Is Making Race ON
Last Two Amendments;
for Educational Reforms

Far the first time in the history OF
r.v York State, woman is running
e.. the United States Senate. This is
u,s Ella A. Boole, for many years
,,.s;dent of the Woman's Christian
rsmnerance Union, who is the .candi-
asse Of suifragists and temperance
varksrs to oppose James ". Wads-
vorth for the Senatorial nomination
II hope to be nominated on the regu.
"a, Republican ticket in the primaries
an Tuesday, but even if 1 fail there l
.hsll stay in the race until Election
psy," Mrs. Boole said yesterday, 81
.hall still have the Prohibition nomina
+;on. and / shall stick it out to the
end"
Mrs. Bodies candidacy is the outcome
Of the long drawn out campaign of
The suffragists against Senator Wads-
vortb. Ever since the senior Senator
from New York refused to cast his
vote for the Federal suffrage amend
ment, following the suffrage victory at
the polls in 1917, the suffragists have
declared they would fight his reelec-
ton. The first part of their plan, to
prevent his running again, was unsuc-
sessful; likewise their efforts to find
a powerful man in the Republican
ranks who would contest the nomina-
ton with him. Many men were asked
to run, amog them President Schur-
man of Cornell University, Congress
man Hill, of Binghamton; John Lord
O13rian, of Buffalo, and Elon Hunting
ton Hooker. All refused.
Mrs. Boole had already been named
90 the candidate of the Prohibition
party. When in August the women gave
up all hope of finding man to lead
their campaign they decided TO throw
their support to her as their capdi-
da& in the primaries.
What She Stands For
II am running on the Eighteenth and
Nineteenth amendments" said Mrs.
Boole. II represent the women, the
home keepers and mothers throughout
the State. who desire the enforcement
Of the prohibition amendment and the
Volstead act. We believe that if the
Volstead act is changed SO as to per-
nit the sale of beer and light wines
1t viii mean the return of the saloon.
aWhen / say / am running on the
Nineteenth Amendment, I mean that I
stand for the things that women have
had in their minds all the time they
were fighting for woman suffrage. They
did not want suffrage for its own sake,
but for the good they could do with it
by bringing about laws to protect wom-
en- and children and the home"
The slogan of Mrs. Bodies campaign
is, Send mother to the Senate" Her
platform includes a promise to work
for child labor legislation, for educa-
tional reforms. including q Federal de-
partment Of education; for better citi-
senshlp laws, and the independent cit9-
sanahip of married women.
u believe that an American woman
living in this country should retain
her American citizenship so long as
she lives in this country, even if she
narries foreigner. If she makes her
home in foreign country she showld
not retain her American citizenship"
hrs. Boole says.
Regarding the League Of Nations, I
believe the matter is too important to
se made political football between
parties any longer. I favor q league
such as advocated by former President
Taft"
aaa National Reputation
Mrs. Boole is known throughout the
state and nation for work in the tenn
pefanee cause. She Is known as an
orator who made many a hostile audi
enee Of men admit the forca of her ar
guments on temperance. Many stories
are told Of her wit and keenness in
sepaTtee.
Once she was debating with Samuel
Sompers at hearing before the New
soak State Legislature on the ques-
aen OF forbidding the use of barley
snd other grains for the manufacture
a nquor, on the ground that they were
Needed for food during the war. Com
para declared that nobody had ever
ssar9 Of using barley for food.
WELL" drawled MRS. Boole, "I seem
70 semernber reading somewhere about
. lsd who had five barley loaves and
sso small fishes"
Hrs. Boole has been a widow FOX
many years. Her husband was g min
ises, living on a scanty income, and
wasn he died she had $50 in the bank
az t1o young daughters TO support.
eae esgan work on the lecture plat
!s and to-day she has put her two