The Little River news., 1922-08-09
ggOMEh HAVE BaD
 NEEK is POLITICS
Candidates Are Beaten in Several important Primary.
 Contests.

Ntmen aspiring to office in five sta.e where primaries were held, and many T a'e candidates favored by the O. men bit the dust at the polls. Par tiCularly tantalizing to womel gen ersliy was the victory of ,'amcs A. Reed of Missouri in obtaining reHom- ination to the Senate.
 It was a mOurnful Wee:l be cause, until then the new voter iE Clitius had been pictured as an j;i r I5le force. Had not the women pd; over Beveridgde in Indiana, Pinchot in Pennsylvania and Brookhart in Iowa? It has been generally accepted that they had and the women were quite set up about it. Also one of the two major parties had actually nominated two women for the Senate, Mrs. Peter Olesen of Minnesota and Mrs. Ben Hooper o1 Wisconsin.
 But Lady Luck drowned upon the politically ambitious of her sex this week and the candidacy of Izetta Jewel Brown for the Senate in West Virginia came to sad end along with a lot of other feminine candidates for office, state and national.
 Women Against Lone Winner.
 It is true that in Oklahoma Miss Alice Robertson won renomination but that could hardly be considered as a victory for the sex since women s organizations fought her renomina tion because she had not been amen able to their ideas of legislation fay bring women.
 In Virginia the pet of the League of Women Voters, Westmoreland Da- wis, aspiring to be senator, lost out at the primary. Mrs. Davis, who managed her husbands campaign had enlisted many women's organizations in his cause. In Kansas, two women who ran for governor received a small vote.
 Bitterness and intensity marked many of the campaigns in which wo- men were especially interested. Prac- tical politicians are eyeing them to see how women are going to take the defeat of favored candidates. Are they going to be good losers or bad? To the mind of the practical pOliti- elan bad loser is one who scratches his ticket at the general election should the candidate he favored fail to secure the nomination ct he pri- maries Are women going to be good sports and stick by the party?' They ask pleadingly.
 Not Strong for Parties.
 Women are more apt to stick by their principles rather than by their party" answers Mrs. Minnie Fisher executive secretary of the League of Women Voters. 'Wo- men do not make fetish of party
 Woman has never been a sporting animal is the way Mrs. Emily New ell Blair the leader of the Democratic women analyses her sex.
 They do not take ,heir defeat as a joke. One cannot be sportsmanlike about the defeat of good CT the vic tory of evil Men may make of poli- tics sport as an antidote for intOl- erance or a salye for rancOr. Women take politics tCo seriously to view it as 8 sport They believe that their choice for the nomination is the best. Then they will view defeat as less than the best. They will not view it with smile.'
 Mrs. Blair is not at all pessimistic about women's tendencies to be sol emn in politics rather she looks upon it as force for good.
 Scratching the ticket in the fall elections, particularly Senator Jim Reeds name by many Democratic women of Missouri is a possibility that politicians who hope for Demo- , atic gains in the Senate fear. The women who were members of the Rid Us of Reed" Club in Missouri and a lot of them were Democratic women, are not expected to vote the straight Democratic ticket this year. Reed is regarded as the cave man of women in the Senate. His cave man tactics must have appealed to some Missouri women, however, or he would not have won.
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