Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-07-08
and WHO tried to cause trouble for

anger in some places
Coghlan said he was In civilian
clothes, on leave, and merely acting
as private citizen when he spoke, and
that he believed he had all the rights
of a private citizen to say what he
wanted to. The country pretty gen
orally agreed with him. It was under
stood that the matter virtually was
allowed to drop because high officials
in Germany could not help laughing
over the thing, and when the risibili-
ties are aroused no man can be over
indignant.
| When Theodore Roosevelt was pres
ident, Rear Admiral Brownson, now on
the retired list, held a high position
in the navy department. Recollection
has it that he was chief of the bureau
of navigation. Roosevelt and Brown
son were great friends, but when, as
president, Roosevelt ordered that a
navy doctor should be supreme COM
mander at sea of the hospital ship
| Solace, the line officers waxed Wrothy
| and Admiral Brownson said some
| things which caused him in way to
be disciplined
When Officers Talk Too Much.
Wamen are in full membership
fellowship with men in the Democratic
national committee Republican
women are determined to secure like
standing on the national committee of
their party as soon as it can be
accomplished. Then the women Of
parties probably will feel that they
have come into their political own.
1t was a bit of wise work, with
more than a smack Of cleverness in
1t, which resulted at the meeting of
the Republican national committee,
| which was recently held in Washing
ton, in securing the creation of the
office Of a second vice chairman of
the committee with the provision that
woman should fill the place.
1t has been rumored that the mem.
bers of the Republican national com.
mittee, or at any rate a majority OF
them, have not been over anxious that
women should be admitted to full vot-
! ing fellowship in the body, but national
committeeman are wise in this pres
ent political generation, and therefore
as soon as it can be done the voting
! strength of woman on the committee
| will be as great as that Of man. Ia
the day coming when the chairmeD
/ of both great national political com.
mittees will be women?
! What has been said about the pos.
Sible Discrimination of some Of the Re-
| publican committeeman to admit wOm0
en- to full fellowship it is said is also
true of the original feeling of the MEM
bers of the Democratic national COM
mittee but last year at San Francisco,
when the Democratic national conven-
ton met, the women were given the
membership which they desired. In
three years time the Republican ma
tiOnal committee will have one woman
in the membership for every man.
There will be a woman member and a
man member from every state.
How the Women Put It Over.
The bit Of clever work at the Re
publican committee meeting which Sc
cured for women the entering wedge OF
membership in the national committee
was on this wise: Unexpectedly a
woman, who had been given recogni-
ton as entitled to sit in the commit
tee because she had the proxy of an
absent member, moved that an Office
of second vice chairman Of the COM
mittee be created and that woman
should be named to fill the place.
1t is not wholly believed that the
gentlemen present were fully prepared
for the shock Of the proposition. II
it was case of putting it over, as
has been limited here and there, the
ladies did put it over, and what could
the gentlemen do but say, "Haye your
way" SO it was that Mrs. Leonard
G. Woods of Pittsburgh, Pa, was
chosen for the new place which was
created and now she is the second
vice chairman of the Republican ma
tionaJ committee of which John L.
Adams is the chairman and r. b.
Williams is the first vice chairman.
Now as a matter of fact the wom-
en- really did put one over on the ma
tional committee, or at any rate they
think they did, and thinking that they
did of course suits the Indies just
as well as if their little bit of parlia-
mentary plotting was entirely unknown
to the committee gentlemen in wait
ing.
Men of Both Parties Were Polite.
The women of the Democratic party
who wanted membership in the nation
al committee believed that they were
going to have a hard struggle to get
what they wanted, and so they laid
plans aggressively to campaign in be-
half Of their cause at San Francisco.
They found that the men knew what
was coming and were ready to ac-
ouiesce, but whether they were ready
to acquiesce simply because they
knew they had to, or becaUge they
really wanted to is entirely another
matter and one which perhaps it would
be impolite, and impoldc also, to dis
cuss.
Before the last meeting of the Re-
publican committee the women held
a conference They laid their plans
to secure the presenting of resolu-
ton for the creation Of the Office of
second vice chairman with woman in
fhe Mace. They thought the men did