Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1922-10-21
Is Women Seeking
Seats In Congress
Three Are Candidates For Senate
And Twelve For Lower
House.

IL others nominated for seats in the
House of Representatives, where one
woman, Miss Alice Robertson, now
sits; still another nominated for the
Governorship of her State and scores
have been nominated for Legislatures
and county and municipal offices.
All this, taken in connection with
the appointment of Mrs. William H.
FELTON,, of Georgia, as United States
Senator, the appointment of Miss Luz
ellie Acherson, Of Columbus, Ohio, as
the active participation of many wom-
en- in stamping campaigns, caused of
fcials of the National Woman's Party
to claim that the American woman al
ready is taking the place in public life
given her through national suffrage
The number of woman candidates
for office, national State, county and
municipal, is much greater this yeai
than it has ever been before but this
i attributed in no small degree to the
fact that nationwide woman suffrage
did not become a reality through rati-
fication by the required number of
States until August 1920, and by that
time most of the State primaries had
been held. This is really the first ma
tional election in which women have
had an equal opportunity to contest
with men for seats in Congress.
Publication of the official list Of
nominees in the various States reveal
ed the number of women who have
made successful campaigns for places
on the tickets to be voted upon in No
vember. They represent the Republi-
can, Democratic, Socialist, Prohibi
ton and Non-Partisan League affilia-
tons.
1t seems virtually certain that Miss
Alice M. Robertson, of Oklahoma, now
the only woman member of Congress,
will have feminine colleague in the
short session to begin in December.
Mrs. Winnie Mason Huck has received
the Republican nomination for Repre-
sentative t-large in Illinois to fill
out the unexpired term of her father,
the late Representative William Ma
son, who had been a United States
Senator.
Should Mrs. Huck be successful.
and it is the general belief she will
be, she will take her seat in the House
as soon as Congress reconvenes after
election. Her term will expire March
A next. Mrs. Huck is not candidate
for the new Congress.
The three women who have been
nominated for the United States Sen
ate are Mrs. Anna D. Oleson, of Min
nesota, and Mrs. Jessie Jack Hooper,
OF Wisconsin, both on the Democratic
ticket, and Mrs. Rachel c. Robinson
of Pennsylvania, Prohibition. Neither
is believed likely to be successful in
her campaign. Alice Lorraine DAILY,
OF South Dakota, who has received
the Governorship nomination in that
State, is believed more likely to cap
ture her honors, for the Non-Partisan
League in that State is the second
political organization in strength,
standing next to the Republican
party.
Mrs. Adelina Otero- Warren, of New
Mexico, is the only woman who beat
sitting member of Congress in her
race for the nomination this year.
She defeated Representative hester
Montoya, receiving 446R votes in the
Republican convention to 991a for
Mr.Montoya. Mrs. Warren has beer
superintendent of schools in Santa
F'e county for several years, and has
insisted that English be taught ex-
cIusively in the schools, despite the
fact between 60 and 70 per cent. of
the residents of that county are Span.
ish- Americans.
Mrs. Ellen Duane Davis, of Phila-
delphia, who won the Democratic
nomination for Congress in the sec
ond district, is a great-granddaughter
O, Benjamin Franklin. She had plan
ned to make the race for the Senate
hut being advanced in years her hus-
tand prevailed upon her that State
wide campaign of Pennsylvania would
be too much Of a strain upon her
strength.
Mrs. St. Clair Moss, of Missouri,
who has obtained the Democratic
nomination in the Eighth district, won
her fight against man who had been
a successful candidate for public office
seven different times. Other women
nominated for the national House of
Representative this fall are: Mrs.
Elvina H. Beals, Socialist, California;
Esther Kathleen O'Keefe, Democrat,
Indiana; Lillian Cox Gault, Democrat,
Minnesota; Lucy E. Patterson, Repub-
lican, North Carolina; Helen Murphy,
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