The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-31
WOMEN PUT UP
HOT FIGHT FOR
PUBLIC OFFICE
Five Run for U. s. Senate
Ten Seek Seats in
House.
MANY AFTER STATE JOBS
Candidates Give Views on Pub
lie Questions to THE New
York Herald
MANY AFTER STATE JOBS

Women running for national office
in this, the first year of the operation
of the Federal suffrage amendment.
have had the searchlight of public in
terest focused on them In the cam
paign,
One woman has sat in the nails of
CongressA-in the House of Repre-
sentatives. Will others enter its por-
tails this year? WIN the sacred pre-
cincts OF the Senate be invaded by
member of the sex which so recently
has thrown off it's political shackles?
These questions involve an inquiry
into the number and qualities of the
women who are candidates. But the
number of women whose turbans are
in the ring cannot be taken as COM
plete measure of the future part the
sex is to take. in contests for ofiicS.
For the Federal amendment did not
enfranchise women In all the States
until after it was too late to enter the
primaries in some of them.
Although no women are candidates
for President or Vice. President of the
United States, it may be entirely per-
tinent at this point to call attention
to the fact--known by few--that two
of them were entered in the South
Dakota primaries last spring as as
pirants for the Republican nomination
for Chief Magistrate of the nation.
They are Miss Lucy Page Castor of
Chicago, founder OF the Anti Cigarette
League, whose platform included a
cigarette ban and the regulation of
woman's dress and the movies, and
Miss Abbie Whistler, also Of the
Windy City - te@.
More to the point. possibly were the
aspirations of Mrs. Marie Brehm of
Long Beach, Cal. to be the Prohibition
candidate Tor Vice-President. She did not
miss IL by so very many miles Perma-
nent chairman of the National Conven-
ton of her party--the first woman who
ever held such an Office in any party
she was seriously considered for second
place on the national ticket
Five Women Seeking Senate Seats.
In almost every State women will be
listed on the ballot on election day as
candidates for Presidential electors. 1t
has been felt by all parties that this Is
place where graceful tribute may
be paid to the new entrants into the
national political arena. But when 1t
comes to actually guiding the destinies
of the ship OF state FIVE women hope to
become United States Senators. They
are:
Mrs. Ella A. Boole. Brooklyn. running
on the Prohibition ticket.
Mrs. Leah Cobb Marion. Emporium,
Pa. Prohibition.
Mrs. Gala j. vayhinger. Upland, Ind.
Prohibition.
Miss Anne II. Martin OF Nevada. indie
pendent.
Miss Rose Schneiderman of New York,
Farmer-Labor party.
At least ten candidates for the House
Of Representatives in various parts OF
the country are anxious to follow In the
footsteps of Miss jeanette Rankin Of
Montana. the first and up to this time
the only woman to ever sit as a member
of Congress. There probably are others
that have not been reported to the East
ern headquarters. but of the ten In mind
one Is running on the Republican ticket
three on the Democratic, two on the
Prohibition. two on the Farner-Labor.
one as a Non-Partisan Lacquer and one
as Liberal They are:
Miss Alice Robertson OF Muskogee.
Republican. Second. Oklahoma district.
DR.. Esther Pohl Lovejoy OF Portland
Democrat. Third Oregon district.
Mrs. Neil K. Irion OF Standpoint. Dem
ocrat, First Idaho district.
Cleona Searles. Democrat, Sixth Ohio
district. -
Mrs. Flora ]. Diefenderfer OF wico-
nisco, Prohibition, for Representative at
Large from Pennsylvania.
Miss Margaret wintringer OF Chicago,
Prohibition. for Representative at Large
from Illinois.
Miss Frieda Miller, Farm Labor. for
Representative at Large in Pennsyl-
vanla.
Mrs. Hattie Hari of Council Bluffs,
Farmer-Labor and Independent. Ninth
Iowa district.
Mrs. Marie Weeks Of Norfolk. Nom
Partisan League. Third Nebraska dis
trict.
Olga s. Won zellan OF Marquette.
Liberal party, Twelfth Michigan dis
trict.
Others Who Sought Nominations.
Those IN the foregoing list survived
the primaries. In addition there were
n dozen or so who pitted their strength
against men In the race for the House
of Representatives and lost The most
notable contest was that of Mrs. Helen
c. Statler of Kalamazoo. Mich. who
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Trillsdale after hard fight for the Re-
publican nomination In the Third dis
trict. He got 1875 votes to 5.s9i for his
opponent
Two women in New York state
sought nominations for Representatives..
one contesting in the Democratic and
the other in the Republican primaries
Miss Anna @. w. Dayley lawyer. OF
Poughkeepsie. was the asplrant for the
Democratic nomination in the Twenty
sixth district. Miss Dorothy Frooks OF
Kingston tried for the Republican nomi-
nation in the Twenty-sevcnth district.
Both, however, were defeated by n con-
siderable margin.
Aside from those already mentioned
two other women In Michigan fought
for nomination 90 the House. Mrs
Aletha Wheeler of Grand Rapids.
linotype operator in the Government
Printing Office in Washington, went
after tho Republican nomination In the
Fifth district Miss Edith W. Dunk,
president Of the DSroit Housewives
League and active In suffrage circles,
made bid for the Republican nominal
ton in the Thirteenth Michigan dis
trict
In the Eleventh Massachusetts, dis
trict Miss Katherine w. Bowling OF
Roxbury made an unsuccessful run for