Paragould soliphone., 1921-06-24
THE LADY FROM OKLAHOMA"
 IS MILITANT ANTLSUFFRACIST

strain that held her hearers spell bound as sine recounted some of the experiences of her remarkable life. Among her first recollections are those of being q refugee when 6 child of five, during the Civil War. She told of the long flight from the Confederates to the Federal camp, and said she would never forget how good to her childish old Glory look ed when they saw it in the distance. Her youth was rich in hardships. The struggle for existence by the missionary family was a hard one often they just kept about the Plim soll line of sufficient sustenance
 Often her childish hands bled from the necessary work of huliing corn
 She skipped hastily over many wears in her narratiye-thOse years which we hear of from the lips of others wherein her kind and neigh borly acts made her the best known and best loved woman in her part of the State Plunging into the story of how she came to run for Congress, she said;
 T was sixty-six years of age when they came to me and told uc was the only person, man or woman, who could win against the man rum ming on the other ticket. I told them it would look funny for me, an anti-suffragist, to run for Congress but l didn't want to be 8 stacker I told them to wait and I would think it over l talked with three persons about it that day, and none of them were women, mind you. and decided it was my duty to run"
 She told how they abused her as a candidate. They asked her why she didn't go and raise family and she replied that she had helped to raise and support more girls than one person in hundred--and told with a sad note in her voice how teen girls. Her campaign slogan was I'm a Christian, I'm an Ameri- can. I'm a Republican.
 And then after I had won they but they didn't If all the fight ing blood of all my fighting ances- tors hadn' [ come to my rescue. how ever, they would have I'm going to keep fighting, too. until every white person q won't say anything about the others) in my State of Oklahoma who wants chance to vote shall have his vote fairly count ed
 Then she told about many women who had come to her and complaint ed because the men had not done this thing or that thing and blamed the men in Congress and out "I told them" she said. "that they would better see that their own back yards were in good order be- fore attempting to criticise the ac- tions of others on nationwide and worldwide affairs. And say, you ought to see the letters some of them write to me. tell them God made men a little less than the angels and then made woman one better. but now she has stepped down and il is fifty-fify now"
 She practises what she breaches, too, having man for secretary, and is quoted as saying that it is a ! mans job. Before coming to Wash ! ington she was proprietor of sue cessful restaurant in Oklahoma and her office here is right next door to the cafe in the House Office Building whether by accident or intention is not generally known.
 Her hobby is justice to the h. dians. She pleads for them at ev- cry opportunity and states it is the dearest wish of her life 10 be able to do something for them during her service in Congress. She only 1 made two requests of the Committee 1 m Committees when she arrived, l one to be placed on the Committee 1 on Indian Affairs, and not to be i put on the Womans Suffrage Com | mittee. "They put me on both. she said, but they tell me the Woman's Suffrage Committee 1 has 'innocuous desuetude, so it is 1 all right
 Another paradox about this wo- man in Congress is that although 1 she came largely aganist her wish i she is making good in the estima- tion of everyone about Congress, 1 She has he respect and admiration | of members and secretaries alike 1 as rare as a day in June about these parts. Everyone has a | good word to say about her
 There was another woman who i came to Congress because she sought | to come. Women's political oreani- zations wanted her to come and | helped her to the spotlight basking | in the margin by reflected glory. | She toyed with radical voters and | sought perpetuation in office at the end Of nolitical rainhOws liln many