Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-07-01
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Coghlan recited to the dinner guests
the famous Me und Colt" poem. The
country roared over it, but it reused
anger in some places
Coghlan said he was in civilian
clothes, on leave, and merely acting
as a 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. 1t 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 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 a 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.
It was a bit of wise work, with
more than smack of cleverness in
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
a woman should fill the place.
It has been runored that the mem.
bers of the Republican national com.
mittee, or at any rate 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. Is
the day coming when the chairmen
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 wom'
| en- to full fellowship it is said is also
true of theloriginal 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 woman member and
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
rnittee be created and that woman
| should be named to fill the place.
| It is not wholly believed that the
gentlemen present were fully prepared
for the shock Of the proposition. Il
| 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, "Have 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
/ tionaI committee of which John Z.
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 ladies 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 becaTs6 they
really wanted to is entire}g another
matter and one which perhaps it would
be impolite, and impoljtic also, to dis
cuss.
Before the last meeting of the Re
publican commiStee the women held
i n oonfnronon Thav laid their n1anS