New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-11
W omen Active
In Campaign to
Beat Ta11lrnany
Besides Preparing to Storm
Polls, They Are Putting
Candidates i'm Field for
Some Important Offices
Tiger Doesn't Like EN-
Murphy's Picked Material
Banking on Men Stand
ing Solidly for Their Sex

The first mayoralty campaign in
which women have taken part finds few
women as candidates. though all politi-
cal leaders emphasize the part that the
women voters will take in defeating
Tammany.
The highest office of New York
County for which women have been
nominated ia that of Register. for which
place the best known Republican wom-
an in the city, Miss Helen Varick Bos-
we'll, is the organization candidate. She
has made an active campaign in behalf
of the coalition ticket, for Curran,
Lockwood and Gilroy, promising her
audiences more about her own candi-
has an opponent, even in the Republi-
can primaries, in John J. Hopper Mr..
Hopper is running also on the Demo
cratic ticket against another woman,
Miss Annie Mathews, believing that he
can combine the votes of both Republi-
can and Democratic men who have a
prejudice against women candidates.
She Is Lawyer
Mrs. Margaret Douglas is a candi-
date for the place of County Clerk,
against Charles Novello. Mrs. Doug
las is lawyer and believes that legal
training will be useful. in keeping the
files in the County Clerk office
Mrs. Mabel T. S. Falco, the first
woman who ever ran for seat in the
Board of Aldermen in New York City,
does not wish to be presented as a
"woman's candidate" Her committee
sent out letter yesterday to enrolled
voters of the thirty-third aldermanic
district of Brooklyn, for which she is
candidate, asking them to consider
her on her record az a spirited
resident. p
I'VE ask you not to vote for or
against this candidate because she is &
won an the letter reads; 1--WE do ask
you to vote for her because she is by
tar the best equipped and most repre-
sentative of the district, and will be
live-wire alderman. We believe you
will be governed in your voting bv
fair, sound judgment and not by blind
unreasoning prejudice"
Mrs. Falco is we'll known not only
among the women of the district for
her work in the Red Cross and Liberty
Loan drives and other war activities
but she has been a worker in the Local
Republican organization since women
first entered the political parties. She
has thus had an opportunity to address
political meetings in all parts of the
district. She helped form the women's
police reserve and raised funds fol-
wounded soldiers at Fox Hills Hos.
pital. She represented the Parents
Association of Public School No. at
legislative hearings and has been in.
terested in Fairgrounds and child well
fare reforms
Presides in Boarding House
Mrs Falco conducts boarding house
at 1T Congress Street. She is opposed
in the primaries by Arthur V. German
present incumbent, and Edward J
Mackin.
Her committee is headed by M
Shaler Allen and DR.. L. Adele Cuinet
and includes many we'll known resi-
dents of the Columbia Heights section
among them Henry D. Barmore, presi-
dent of the Republican club of the
district
There are two women candidates fol
the Assembly, Miss Marguerite Smith
of the Nineteenth Assembly District
of Manhattan, and Mrs. Ebba Winslow
of the Fourth Assembly District OF
Queens. Miss Smith has held her seat
in the Assembly for .wo years.
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Batch, who
has been identified with the woman
suffrage movement for many years, is
the Socialist candidate for Comptrol-
Ter.
VOTE IN THE PRIMARY
If YOU are enrolled YOU are DriyiIeped