Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-25
HULL TO THE
LADIES

lished statement of Senator Me
Cormick, chairman of the repub-
lican senatorial campaign commit
tee, implying that they are not fit
to hold important offices, Cordell
Huh, chairman of the democratic
national committee, recently issued
a statement in which he declared
that Mrs. Oleson, democratic nomi-
nee for the United States senate in
Minnesota, at whom Senator Nc
Cormick's criticism was aimed, was
a national asset and her candidacy
an inspiration to the women OF
America. The statement in full
follows:
"The recent published statement
by Senator Medill Mccormick,
chairman of the republican sena-
torrial campaign committee, in
which he said, persons might vote
for a woman for superintendent Of
schools or for the town council or
other little jobs like that, but when
it comes to the senate of the Unit
ed States they simply will not do
it," and that he did not believe
women will vote for Mrs. Oleson,
the democratic candidate for Unit
ed States senator from Minnesota,
should not 60 unchallenged by the
women of America.
THE democratic national COM
mittee resents this slur upon the
capacity of women to hold impor-
tant offices, such as United States
senator or congressman, which, in
this instance, is aimed at the demo-
cratic nominee for senator in the
progressive state of Minnesota.
THE democratic party believes
in the selection of the most COM
petent, capable and suitable per-
sons to office regardless of sex.
Wherever it finds these qualities
in any person., mar or woman, the
democratic party favors the selec-
ton and election of such persons.
The case of Mrs. Oleson pre-emi-
nently meets this requirement of
the democratic party. The repub-
lican party through one of its chief
spokesman openly repudiates this
policy and this test. and makes an
unjust discrimination against wom-
en-, however fit and capable they
may be.
THE democratic party and the
democratic national committee rec
ognize the absolute equality Of
women with men in political affairs.
They recognize the right of wom-
en- to an equal participation in the
party organization and the conduct
of campaigns, and as evidence of
this the democratic national COM
mittee is made up equally of men
and women, and this policy is ex-
tended to the minor organizations
of the party where and when pos
sible.
1.-THE republican national COM
mittee has never recognized the
right of women to be members of
that body and to take equal part
in the conduct Of its affairs. The
chairman of the republican SEM
torial campaign committee now de-
mics in effect the right of women
to hold any important office, re-
CARELESS of qualification, implying
that they all lack capacity and are
therefore unfit.
The necessary inference OF
Chairman McCormick's statement
is that women have no place and no
business in the republican party as
at present constituted. Women are
naturally democratic and progress
i've, and the republican party. as
now organized and controlled, is
%elutocratic and reactionary, and is
opposed to almost everything in
morals and in economies which the
women of America favor.
Aside from being a reflection on
women in general, Chairman Nc
Cormick's interview is a reflection
on and a reputation of the women
of his party who have succeeded in
election to the congress OF the
United States-Miss Rankin OF
Montana and the sitting congress
oma Miss Robertson of Okla
homa-and a notice that they must
not again aspire to this high Of
flee.
1.-THE democratic party considers
itself honored and fortunate in hav-
ing for its nominee for United
States senator in Mipnesota a
woman of such great ability, of the
demonstrated capacity. the high