Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-19
WOMAN FACING
NOMINATION To
SENATE Of j. 8.
Expected to Win Out
in Monday Primaries;
Kellogg Take c. O. P.
Democratic Lady Will
Be First of Sex to Run
on Major Party Slate.
BY GEO. N. BRIGGS
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
Copyright, 1922. by Che Great Falls Trib

st. Paul, MINI, June 1S.-Unles.
some, of our very best political prog
nosticators are sadly off in their cal
culations Mrs. Peter Oleson Of Cloquet
Mimi, will find herself on Monday
night the first woman ever nominated
for the United States senate by one
OF the major parties. "Hin
The odds all favor Mrs. Oleson in
the democratic primaries and already
she has made plans for the immediate
Start of her campaign against Senator
Frank B. Kellogg, republican incum-
bent. Senator Kellogg is certain of
denomination and Mrs. Oleson feels
equally sure of success at the primary
polls. She has rather stubbor mop
position, however, from Thomas J.
Meighen, who has the backing of the
democracy of Ramsey county, where
most of the democratic voters Of the
state reside. Mrs. Oleson has made a
expected that the women of the state
will see that she is victorious.
The very fact that everybody tells
her she hasn't the ghost of a show to
defeat Senator Kellogg next November
has made Mrs. Oleson more determined
than ever to wage a thorough cam
paign.
Campaigns in Ford
With the little Ford sedan in which
she has been campaigning for the last
10 weeks she proposes to tour the en-
tire state, starting from Crookston
within two weeks after her nomina-
ton. Her plans are all laid and she
figures to spend her summer drumming
up votes. This is how worried she is
over the outcome of MONDAYS primar-
les.
This is a democratic year. said
Mrs. Oleson Sunday. The most i'm
portant thing is to draft the strong
est available democrat into the race.
If l cannot beat Mr.. Meighen in the
primaries it is certain l could not de-
feat Senator Kellogg in the fall. We
are going to defeat Senator Kellogg.
however, and l hope to be able to do
it."
OF course such a prediction is classi-
fled as revenge. up here where re-
publicanism is meat and drink and
democrats are almost as scarce as
liquor licenses" Nevertheless there is
a lot a sympathy for the peppery lady
of Colquet who has made such a
whirlwind campaign INC has met with
such rousing receptions everywhere
that the uninitiated would consider her
chances of election better thar the
average.
The surface shows plenty of support.
more than is common with democrats
running for office. but the republican
leaders say is preposterous to expect
Mrs. Oleson or any other democrat to
beat Senator Kellogg, who has the
strong republican organization OF Min
nesota behind him.
Just what sort Of campaign Senator
Kellogg, who is an extremely dignified
man, will choose to wage against Mrs. !
Oleson in the event of her nomination.
remains to be seen. 1t will be a novel
experience for a senator to have a full
fledged woman opponent and it will
be up to Senator Kellogg to set pre-
and courtesy in such n contest. Per
sonalities will be barred-on the sena-
tors side at least, but he will find
that in Mrs. Oleson he will have an
opponent of no mean political ability
and tactical skill.
Already Mrs. Oleson has challenged
Senator Kellogg to joint debate. She
wants to discuss with him the issues
of the coming campaign and above all
she wants to cross question. him on
record Of the republicans who have
been in power in congress ever since
the election of four vars ago. As
national committeewoman
for Minnesota. Mrs. Oleson has spok-
en- over most of the United States.
She is as much at home upon the stump
as she is at the kitchen range-per-
more so by this time-and the
campaign she has just waged for the
democratic nomination has been full
Of ginger and confidence.
People Presented Car
The campaign has been made largely
the Ford sedan. which was presented
20 Mrs. Oleson by the women of Min
In return for the unusual
yift she has inspired the women of
Minnesota with new hope as to their
future as political factors. And be-
of this Mrs. Oleson feels there
will be glory even in defeat. But she
l1s that the strenuous campaign she |
las made for the nomination is moth
ng compared to what she will do to
vim the November election, for she
Intends visiting every village and ham
Of 300 inhabitants and over.
As the result of a ruling by the
tate attorney general. Mrs. Oleson is !
the primary ballot as Anna Dickie I
Is Mrs. Peter Oleson. The attorney \
.eneral said ladies must be voted for ]
Inder their own names and not the
Of their husbands. He would |
uot ever allow the prefix Mrs on !
he ballot. Mrs. Oleson's friends at I
irst thought this would be a set back
0 her bat the controversy over the :
gave the necessary publicity 4
q assure Mrs. Oleson of a full vote.