Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-28
WOMEN TACKLE
POLITICS IN
MAINE BATTLE
Both Parties Sending
Speakers to Arouse
Voters in Primary.
Republicans Have Or
ganizers in Field; So
cial Events Held.
By CAROLINE NJ
special Dispatch to The Tribune

Washington, Aug. ga fierce
struggle impends in Maine by oppos-
ing feminine forces of the two major
parties. Both democratic and repub-
Iican women are ~passionately striving
to make the better showing in that
significant battle of ballots, the early
Maine election OF September IL.
Maine at the moment is the theater
for the warning feminine political
forces Of the nation as well as tor
the c~lasping ~contingents within the
state. Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, the
democratic leader, is in the field. Mrs.
Harriet Taylor Upton plans to leave
Washington shortly for Maine. Mean
while she is keeping her long distance
feminine intuition at work. enabling
her to advise her lieutenantS already
there. Mrs. Maud Wood Park, ma
tionaI political leader Of Womans
Works. plans to be in Maine next
week to defend the direct primary
system that is up for repeal IN a
referendum vote.
For the first time there will be a
real test of strength between republl-
can and democratic IN Two
years ago when the republican land
SlIuf III .NldlUt utlptI II AHA
lion majority returned throughout the
country for Harding, there had been
no time to organize the women of
either party between the ~enfranchIse-
ment of the sex and the political
election. Since that time parties have
been scouting about shooting women
into their respective bailiwicks. The
question is which party has shooed
the greatest number of EN- into camp
and are they going to remain shooed;
The outcome of September ii Will
will indicate to the nation which
party is making the greater appeal TO
women.
Organizer at Work
For many months women of both
parties have been at work preparing
for the fateful September IL. which is
so highly though tot by the rest OF
the country. Mrs. Betsy Edwards, an
organizer for the republican party, Of
nationwide experience. has been in
Maine since June. With a troop of
men and women she has been can
vassing the state. All of the county
fairs have been visited and the I'M
firing and eloquent Betsy made an I'M
precedented number of turns a day.
the crowds all hungry, she claims, for
knowledge of republican doctrines.
One of the very finest of orators
was SEM into the state by Senator
Medill Mccormick. the chairman of the
republican speakers committee. She
is Mrs. Mary Hight of Chicago. Sen
ator Mccormick believes her to be a
star when it comes to juggling cam
paign arguments and he plans to send
her into every state where a critical
situation impends in voting by the
women. She spoke first in Maine at
the republican field day. opening the
campaign at Island Park on the shores
of sparkling little Lake CobbescOnte.
The celebration took the form of a bean
bake. and millions of beans were con-
sumed by thousands of persons. many
kegs Of pickles being especially pro-
vided for the Maine flappers.
The democratic rally and opening
celebration took the form of a shore
dinner served to the democratic posts
of Maine at Oakland Park, near Rock
land. Miss A~ntoinette Funk. nationally
known democratic woman worker.
spoke.
Touches on Tariff
Mrs. Emily Newell Blair spoke at
another rally in Augusta this week on
the tariff. She warned the Maine
women that their whole day would be
absolutely ruined when the pending
tariff bill becomes a law. From the
time they are Weakened by an alarm
clock on which the duty has been raised
go per cent until on retiring they don a
nightic upon which the duty is also
raised - per cent, there will be moth
ing but financial worry. Everything
she touches in between the alarm clock