New-York tribune., 1922-09-19
5 Women Will
90 to Congress,
Mrs. Upton Says
Republican Leader Predicts
General Party Success,
Majorities i'm Both Houses,
More Feminine Members
Disparages W oman's Bloc
Declares There Never VIII
Be Division of Interest
Between Sexes i'm Politics

Three women will be elected to Con
gress In November, according to the
prediction Of Mrs. Harriet Taylor Up
ton, Vice-chairman of the Republican
National Executive Committee, who was
In town yesterday on official business.
Republican success in general, with
good working majorities in both SEN
ate and House and specially well
come increase in the number OF women
representatives, was prophesied by the
woman leader in an interview at the
Waldorf-Astoria.
81 only wish we could have ten
women in Congress- she said. "They
are needed as an object lesson to the
public at large, but they will come in
time. Miss Alice Robertson, of Okla
homa, is likely to be returned from her
district, though she has q normally
Democratic majority to overcome, and
to make her task harder this fall she
has for her opponent man Of Indian
descent. Mrs. Winifred Mason Huck,
of Illinois, nominee for the vacancy
left by the death of her father, Con-
gressman William B. Mason, will have
but little opposition.
Is of Spanish Descent
"These two are prospective occu-
pants of seats in the short term of
Congress-, while the third Republican
woman, Mrs. Adelina Otero Warren, of
New Mexico, will not take her seat, if
elected, until next March This candi-
date has to overcome the conservative
attitude of the Spanish American voters
toward women in politics, but it is
greatly in her favor that she is Of
Spanish descent, as it Is an unwritten
tradition in politics Of the Southwest
that descendants of the old Spanish
Mexican stock be represented in the
lower house.
"Women will be deciding factor in
the Congressional elections in som
states more than others this fall In
my opinion the issues, in Ohio will be
decided by the women voters. Women
voters played an important part in the
election of Senator Hale and the other
Republican candidates in Maine and
they were active in the primary cam
paigns in Massachusetts, Michigan and
Washington"
Women Are Behaving Better
The twinkle in Mrs. Upton's eye
harled back to old times, when she was
an ardent suffrage worker.
"In short" she said, "wcmen are be-
having great deal better in politics
than I sometimes thought they would
!
She laughed a short scornful laugh
at mention of the "woman's bloc"
SIT will never be-" she said; "that's
| just a catchword. There will never be
a division of interest between men and
women in politics, so long as women
are born of men as we'll as of women.
We're all more like our fathers than
| like our mothers, anyway, and, that
makes women's minds like mems minds,
and so what chance is there for a sex
division?
at has been gratifying to the women
voters, however, that this Administra-
tion has paid so much attention TO bills
in which women had a peculiar inter
est, that is, the maternity bill and the
naturalization bill, which President
Harding was to sign to-day. 1t never
was right for American women to lose
their citizenship when they married
foreigners, and as for the foreign
women who wish to become citizens
why should they wait until their hus.
bands wish to do so?
Women Want Citizenship
"This is the way it works out in many
immigrant homes. The mother, hear
ing the children chatter in English
about the home, gets uneasy, and de
cdes she must learn the language oil
the new country. She goes to night
school, but her husband, perhaps, tired
after his days work, has no ambition
in that line. So she is ready for hen
naturalization years before he is. Per
haps he never bothers with it, but
when she wants to be citizen, this
bill will take care of her.
Mrs. Upton declared she had no
knowledge of the issues of the New
York state campaign and would take
on part in it. She was here for the
purpose of comforting with Charles D
Hilles, Republican National Committee.
man from New York, and to attend q
meeting Of the directors of the Ma
tional American Woman Suffrage AS,
sociation 4o-p7orrou