Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-18
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Why Political Machines Do Not Like
Notwithstanding . Rum.
mage Sale Has Points Not
Wholly Unlike Political
Campaigning
BY SARAH d. IOWRIE

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| their return to party convention methods
versus the primary. which latter they have
| partially scrn1pped. thanks to very persistent
come BACK maneuvers on the part OF
one, II not both. the political machines.
., Political machines ana machinists do not
| like primaries.
-, / remember. very well hearing Mr.. Will
JUNCTION W a the Nervousness OF leaving the
public so 10 n chance to 20 astray. lie
was very earnest and very funny in a Dick
ensian way He was Mt the time. 50 to
speak. in the bosom Of his friends at com
Portable afternoon tea, when he preached
MS praught. That was the -car the pri-
mares were intcrjected into the politics of
ms State-hiS in more than one sense until
aoout thenrand he was outraged. and I
thought little fearful of losing the reins.
Which fear was not i'll grounded for time
at least
7NHE program for the convention this
= month has two sides, public and prl-
vate aspect. apparently.
o-ihe delegates convene mt 12 80 on the
Eth and adjourn at 80. All afternoon
there are special committee meetings. which
are publicly announced. All night there are
informal conclaves, which are not specified.
NeNt morning tho convention meets again.
nonlnates its candidates for State Offices,
votes on the nominations and then disperses.
It's slate OF candidates Will appear on the
November tickets as the nominees Of The
State Republican Party.
nov me important meetings Of course,
are the informal ones that are held at night.
ghn IT.ween M, me TWO meetings of the convention.
Ihey viii really decide who oro 10 he the
ranaidates whom the delegates to the CON
ventlon Will be required TO choose among
Almost all candidates for any election ore
gprign,nally p, chosen by small groups of men
sn,a, en- L,ehnsSivana this spring and late winter
I4x.
or or Lewis or Pinchot or other candidates m.
but the Republican voters of PENNSYLVANIA
nad nad four months or more to contemplate
ane candidates and to weigh their merits
them. ''''' "''' o"eN'"s
In New York this month. on the con.
trhrF, the voters at large will not have anv
chanrc to consider the party candidates as
a whole until the final choice for the party
And at best the majority of the delegates
70 the convention will have the brief morn
Ing hours before the second session Of the
convention opens. when they will have TO
sIa.s p@e ,n ,ogether rumors In order to know the
lhey Will vote. therefore, as representa-
ives OF all the Republicans of the state of
NeW 1ork without any exact knowledge as
TO TO the reaction of the Republicans of the
'h acuWen Is ms virilc. for in
stance; as the assured prophetic powers
of the political leaders of the PENNSYLVANIA
majority in Philadelphia for Mr., Alter Alter
and an 10000 majority in Allegheny
t.ounty were announced as dead certainty
Tor the primary election, they might we'll
vote for n Republican candidate that could
not in the end get enough backing of the
state Republicans to see him safely through
tie November elections
IN the case of a primary election can
date the voters who are to vote at the
autumn election give their verdict. In the
case OF n convention chosen candidate the
delegates of the voters choose the candidate.
IN Pennsylvania wc might well have had
Alter instead of Pinrhot by n Republican
convention votc-not calamity for Penn
sylrania. but not so free a choice, or 50
hopeful of a fairer deal in party manage.
ment as what actually happened.
AZ an events 1t VIII be interesting to see
what happens in New York on the 9th and
the 2sth of September. and whether the
new voters among the Republicans and tho
Progressives get "look in during those
night powwows in some well guarded suite
OF rooms in the big local hotels.
MYTH the present quasi hold .up of old
w methods in PENNSYLVANIA as an object
Workers will be consulted
understand that the New York political
women are well posted and on the watch
ana keen as to their organizations in the
counties. For they are grOwingly we'll
organized. and the independent Republican
clubs which the women have started are,
here and there. facts to be considered and
dealt with Mrs. Livermore is woman
of very decided talents for organization.
and she has women under her that are very
much on their jobs. l have known more
than one leave her summer time home and
vacation occupations for the purpose of
putting the finishing touches to her local
political organization. A great deal of first.
hand information has gone direct to voters
from those local Offices. I think the main
difference between the men and the women
In this respect is that the woman leader
really tries to let all the woman voters
know all that she knows. while the men
are chiefly concerned that those who can
hand over the votes shall know; the rank
and file of the voters can be sent last min.
ute orders.
COUNTY fairs, movies. Grange meetings,
~ church sociables and pageants are
familiar places for women to get in some
of their activities for phlanthropic ventures
and now they make good soil for political
recruiting, even If 1t is only the word to.
mouth variety or the cheerful pos,a-card
reminder.
There is nothing new in the methods; Just
additional facts to he gathered and sent
along the well-worn channels.
fOr IN an ordinary community II takes
very little preliminary planning to send n
message to every householder. I tried that
this week in community of some 1000
villagers and summer cottagers This com.
munity has never known the joys and sor-
rows of rurnmage sale. And it so han
pened that there Is an accumulation of
rummagc here just now that would create
n furry even on the Philadelphia market
BY word dropped here and there casually
but to persons who act on their convictious
in three days time I was able to arouse
| such n passion for Il rummage sale that the
gift of n hall, the services Of an auctionccr,
the accommodating and carting away of rum.
mage rubbish were eagerly undertaken and
the affair is being put through by II crowd
| of applicants.
One woman who has a talent for sending
| post card notices sent out all the post cards
| necessary in an afternoon of her own ar-
| cord. The clergy Of the village and the
| Postmaster were walking bul leins and the
householders are lighting their lamps and
| searching their houses diligently for thInys