The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-10
MRS. OLSEN OPENS.
 HER CAMPAIGN FOR. SENATORIAL I O GA.
Woman Candidate Will Wage Active Battle Against Sen- ator kellogg-Demo-
 cratic Party Split
By GEORGE N. BRIGGS
Special Dispatch to The Age-BeralA ]
 (Copyright, 1922, by The Age Herald)


 St. Paul, Minn., September D. When Mrs Anna DiclSie Olesen, Mln- nesota democrat and candidate for the United States Senate. opened her campaign in Crookston Saturday night the isues were Joined for a struggle that bids fair to be pictur- esque and spectacular before the votes are counted next November. However, Minnesota democrats are far from echoing the confident dec- larations of victory that are com ing in from other parts of the coun- try. The fight naturally will rs- volve around Mrs. Olesen and her To- publican opponent, Senator Frank b. Kellogg, and the woman candidate has let 1t be known that she intends to carry the fight directly to the in- cumbent.
 Mrs Olesen is ignoring the pres ence of pr. Henrik Shipstead. run ming as a farmer-labor candidate, although the latter is going to poll considerable vote. Incidentally, while the wounds may be healed before election days rolls around again. there Is no question that the democratic party is split wide open over the candidacy of a woman at the head of the ticket. It Is argued, also, by many of the best posted politicians iE the state that the dissatisfied re- puhlicans who consider that Senator Kellogg Is too conservatice, will not vote for a woman, but reluctantly will support their own party candi-, date rather than to vote for Ship stead.
 Politics Taken Seriously
 Minnesota is an unusual state where politics is taken seriously and where conditions differ greatly from those in any other section of the union. For instance the claim was made that Senator Kelloggs hore rested on the farmer-labor and demo- cratic candidates being retained in the race because ''the combined vote of the republican party" This Is not true. Two years ago Gov. J. A. O. Prues boiled 50.000 more votes than the combined vote of Shipstead, the present senatorial as- mayor mayor. of st. Paul and the Iu democratic . gubernatorial candidate, while Presi- dent Harding boiled 300,000 more votes than the combined total of all other presidential candidates. While candidates have changed somewhat, Kellogg, republican leaders believe. instead of depending on a split field would be even better off with the op- position narrowed down to only one candidate.
 Women Active
 Incidentally there are four kinds of women voters in this state. namely, tho republican organization women. the democratic organization women. the wives of the men who are de- voted to the farmer-labor cause and the unattached unorganized women. The republican women vii support Senator Kellogg almost soiidly if conditions now existing do not change, and they are thoroughly or ganized. The democratic women. not so strong a unit, will support Mrs. Clesen. The farmer-labor women, If they vote at all, will stand by Ship stead. But there are many thousands of women in St. Paul. Minneapolis and Duluth. who will neither register nor vote because the jury lists are made up from the registration rolls and the history of the mixed jurles in Minnesota Is a sad one.
 Mrs. Olesen Handicapped
 The Nwet" democrats are not ex- pected to support Mrs. Olesen and If she cannot look for . big vote among the members of her own sex she Is handicapped right from tho start by having to make great gains among the men. This represents the judg- ment of leaders of all parties today at the opening of the campaign, who in moments of candor, do not hesi- tate to declare themselves. Mrs Clesen Is askinE no consideration rom the ground that she is . woman