The Washington times., 1922-06-11

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with knowing what moves the
appointing power.
THE WOMEN DID IT."
Just q few days before the pri-
mariss there came . report that
some Of the coss In Penrcse's ma
chine In Pennsylvania, unwilling to
let Governor sproul receive Pen.
roses mantle, had decided to grab
the reins by floating It on the
Pinchot ship that had been we'll
launched and well creased. But
Washington said that Vermont
would vote for Bryan for Prssi-
dent sooner than Pennsylvania
would nominate Pinchot. They
laughed at Bcveridge-called him
the boy orator"--and said no
Mary and the wine-clad cottage
could make q track against the
now machine. oiled and creased by
the Harding Administration"
You could have cut pessimism
with q knife In official Washington
the day It became known that the
Old Guard had failed and the ANA.
tsurs had put It over on the united
State and Federal machines. It
was q cold day for Johnny when
the mercury went down"
Until day before yesterday the
big and little politicians and
prophets Of Washington were sn.
gagged in . diagnosis to determine
what laid the machine candidate
low. The first week they had a
many theories as experts have
when summoned to testify In court.
They all agreed on only one thing:
that the patient had gone UP in
the flame. What caused IT. After
two or three weeks Of learned dis
sertations or so-called learned for
I have como to distrust expert tes-
timony when introduced by a par.
ticular side, suddenly an II It had
been revealed by q message from
the skies or Sir Oliver Lodge, they
came forward with the parrot cry:
THE women did it."
TOM REED IN 1890 SAID SAME.
Now you think Of 1t. from the
way they announced this as II It
were some new discovery disclosed
by them In some occult way, that
no such explanation wns ever given
before the the result Of . political
election. It isn't the first time the
women have been given the credit
or the blame for overturning a
political party and driving out ad.
ministrations supposed to be firm
ly seated.
In the year 1890. after the
passage Of the, Mckinley high
tariff act-ut was called high"
then by comparison. for the people
had then never heard Of the
Payne-Aldrich or Fordnev bills
Of abomination" n")-the big majority
in the House was swept out and
the Democrats carried the House
by an unprecedented major!'y.
The wiseacres held many autop-
sizes and gave various diagnoses.
In the midst Of the confusion Of
voices. Thomas B. Reed, Of Maine,
who had a habit Of looking the
truth in the face and blurting It
out. said:
The women did IT,
WOMEN COULDN'T VOTE THEN
They couldn't vote then except
in wyoming and a few other States
which the effete East called "the
sagebrush States." You ask, then,
how could the women work the
revolution with which they were
credited II they had no vote? Here
10 the way that Mr.. Reed explained
it, After the passage Of the Nc
Kinley tariff act the price Of
nearly everything was put up by
the merchants. who told the people
that the tariff compelled the hoist.
ing Of prices. The women do the
buying and they made their influ'
ence felt.
Some people say that before they
could vote women exerted more
influence than now-for then
they agitated and cornered men,
whereas now II they seek to make
sentiment. the men are deaf and
say do It yourselves. You have
the ballot"
ENTITLED TO CREDIT
I do not know whether the
women are entitled to the credit
Of beating the machines cendt'
dates in Pennsylvania and Indiana
or not. Certainly q large majority
Of them voted for a change.
whether, aside from the benefit
which always accrues from the de-
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