The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-16
WOMAN Will
BE NOMINATED
FOR SENATOR
Mrs. Olson, of Minnesota, Ex-
pected to Win Democratic
Nomination Blazing Trail
For Her Sex.
WILL OPPOSE KELLOGG
BY MARK SULLIVAN

WASHINGTON, June 16.-Harassed
conservative Republican leaders can
look forward safely to a breathing
spell so far as the Republican primary
in Minnesota next Tuesday is con-
cerned.
Senator Kellogg will surely be re-
nominated. He has two opponents in
the Republican primary, of whom the
less negligible is ex-Congressman Lun-
deem.
Mr.. Lurdeen's congressional district
is one in which there is large pro-
portion of voters of foreign birth or
foreign antecedents. When Lundeen
was in congress in 1917, he took
referendum IN his district on the ques-
ton of our entering the war. The re-
suit was overwhelmingly adverse to
our declaring war, and in consequence
Lundeen voted against the declaration
OF war, against the draft act, and
against some other war measures. In
consequence he was defeated when he
sought to return to the house in 1918,
and in 1890, when he tried once more,
he made little showing. No one can
expect that his opposition to kellogg
with amount to much.
In the Democratic primaries, on the
same day, one OF the contestants, Mrs.
Peter B. Olsen, is almost 70, much in
the lead in her party as Kellogg is in
in his Her chief opponent is an eld
erly farmer and banker, who years
ago was identified with Greenback and
Populist movements. Mrs. Olsen will
almost certainly be nominated and
will be the first woman to ever to
have received a regular nomination
for the United States senate.
Safe In Election
Senator kellogg will be almost as
safe in the subsequent election as he
is IN the primaries. His immunity is
largely due to the fact that the radi-
cal elements which in some other
western states express themselves in
the Republican party In Minnesota
have segregated themselves into a
third party known as the Farmer-Lab-
or party. This party will have a sepa-
rate candidate for the senate in the
person of a Minneapolis dentist. Kel-
logg's only danger lies In a possible
union after the primaries between the
Democrats and the Farmer-Labor
party. Just now certain moves are be-
ing made to bring about such a COM
bination. But 1t is unlikely that Mrs.
Olsen would be willing to become a
party to it.
Mrs. Olsen will be the most con-
spicuous example of the woman in
politics during the present political
year Aside from her, there are
throughout the country, twenty-five
other women who are trying to get IN
TO either the senate or the house. In
Mississippi and In West Virginia there
are women trying to get the Demo
cratic nomination for senator In New
York and in Pennsylvania the prohibi
tion candidates for senator are wo
men. AS to the lower house, the one
woman who now sits in that body
Miss Alice Robertson, of Oklahoma
will be candidate for reelection.
In each of the states of Illinois, In
diana, Pennsylvania, Alabama. anC
Texas, two women are trying for con
gressional nominations or for election
In each of the states of Arkansas, Cal
ifornia, Michigan, Nebraska, Tennes
see and Mississippi, there is a con
gressonal district in which a woman
is trying for nomination or for election
In Minnesota, a woman who fills thu
office of mayor of the town of St
Peter, is trying for a congressional
nomination.
Copyright, 1922, by
The New York Evening Post, Inc.