The Connecticut labor press., 1920-09-11
REPUBLICANS GET
 NEW VIEW POINT
Farmer Labor Party Threatens to Draw Votes From Them
 For a Change.

There appears to be possibility that | the serene regard with which the re- publican party in Connecticut has been observing the Farmer-Labor party may be disturbed A determined attempt is to be made to pull votes from the re- publicans in support of two women candidates, one for the United States
 Senate in opposition to Senator Bran degee and the other for secretary of state in opposition to Frederick L. Perry of New Haven, the present in cumbent.
 Hitherto it has been pretty well
 recognized that the party in question,
 or, rather.S it's predecessor, the Amer
 ican Labor Party, has pulled votes chiefly from the democrats, as was evi- denced in the defeat of ex-Mayor Kim
 sella of Hartford In this light the party appealed strongly to the republi- cans and the Hartford Courant, staunch republican organ, has been most solicit ous for its welfare. It will be interest ing to note how this proposed drive against republican candidates will be welcomed by the Courant and other good republicans.
 Inasmuch as there are, presumably, many women in the state who would naturally vote the republican ticket 1t appears possible that the attempt of the women to introduce a fly into the oint- ment of the two candidates referred to may at least cut down their vote to such an extent that their defeat may follow as a result. The announcement from the National Women's Party headquarters at Hartford is as follows:
 "An active campaign is to be begun at once for the two women candidates on the state ticket of the new Farmer Labor Party. Both candidates are accustomed to whirlwind campaigns, and indeed to political campaigns of all varieties, and 1t IS expected that the state wills see something new in cleo tioneering by the women. The two candidates are Mrs. Josephine B. Ben nett of Hartford, nominated for United States senator to succeed MT. Frank B. Brandegee, and Miss Elsie Hill of Norwalk, nominated for secre- tary of state to succeed MT. Frederick IL. Perry.
 Miss Elsie Hill is the daughter of the late E. J. Hill, long congressman from the Fourth district, and one of the. best known and most respected of the republican members from this state. Miss Hill is accepting the nomination as a protest against the treatment of the women by the republican machine in Connecticut Her self-respect, she states. cannot permit her 10 retain her membership of a party which has shown such little regard for the women of the country.
 { Mrs. Bennett is the wife of M. Tos- can Bennett, prominent lawyer who has given up his practice in Hartford to go into labor politics and to pro- mote the fortunes of the new party. Both Mrs. Bennett and Miss Hill are prominent menebrs of the National Woman's Party, and Miss Alice Paul has given her cordial approbation to their candidati1re in opposition to the republicans. Both these candidates are likely to draw many adherents from the republican party. This is especially the case with Miss Hill whose friends are chiefly to be found among the re- publicans.
 Both Mrs. Bennett and Miss Hill have had a large share in the campaign of the National Woman's Party. Both have been in jail in consequence of their persistence in picketing the White House and carrying banners with in scriptions displeasing to the democratic administration at Washington. Hither- to their fight has been chiefly against the democrats Now both are making definite fight against both the older DartieS"