Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-11
FLAPPER.V VOTE
IS SOUGHT BY
REPUBLICANS
Catch En- Young Is
Slogan of G. O. P. Or
~ganizers in 2 States.
Prize Offer Creates a
Howl and Gives Dem
ocrats Good Opening.
By CAROLYN VANCE
Special Correspondent Of Crest Falls Tribune
Copyright. 1929. by The Great FANS Iribaps

Copyrignt. 1929. by The Great Falls TribuDs
Washington, Sept. 9-"Catch EN-
Young counsel the sages of the re
publican party. ..,
They are sitting up o'nights at
headquarters deyising lures for the
female fIedglings who are on the verge
of casting their first vote IN the NO
vember election.
Out of this intense activity OF re
publican gray matter resulIeu the
Women's First Voters club plan with
its georgeous good times calculated by
it's sponsors to be a sure thing IN
corrailing the flapper vote.
First voters clubs have already 0een
organized in Fissouri and New YORK,
one is in process of organization IN
Pennsylvania. and similar n sin
other states are in the offing.
Catch 'em young is the advice
many young men are given when they
are bent on selecting wives. and
train 'em up in the way they should
go" The republicans feel that the
same advice holds good in getting
women in to the party.
Knows Her Down Mind
They are not trusting to the forces
Of party TO operate in the case OF the
J HlOU6TH XIII. COll1t a oAC H"S 49,
herself a reputation for doing things
in her own sweet way and she is apt,
this contrary Mary of the present
generation, to vote the democratic
ticket this fall regardless of the fact
that her dad is a dyed-in-the-wool re-
publican. By paying her ardent at
t%ention, the party leaders hope to
keep the wiIful child within the fold
and at the same time lure the m
crat daughters away from the paren-
toll political firestone. Very special
treatment for this generation OF
young women. Very-lt may be that
the politicians are not making any
desperate attempts to organize the
twenty-one-year old males. Perhaps
they believe such efforts would be
wasted as politically %spineless crea-
lures would vote as their fathers have
always voted anyhow.
Mrs. w. X. Haight of st. Lauis is
responsible for the j%olliest kind of a
first voters club in Missouri. 1t be
gan with a picnic last Fourth of july
and they have had many entertain
ments since. Simply scrumptuous
times they've had. Sandwiched in the
good times offered to the members OF
the first voters club are lectures OF
republican principles and on gooc
citizenship.
Politicians are watching the Mis-.
souri, experiment with much interest
On the other hand, Mrs. Barclay
Warburton has had rough shedding
with her first voters club in Penn.
%sylvania. After much thought she
evolved an elaborate plan. But wher
Mrs. Warburton tried to put her plar
in operation all kinds Of fuss was
raised. The feature of the plan which
caused the greatest public rub was tht
offer of a thousand dollars or a triF
to Europe to the woman in each dis
trict who could obtain the most mem
bers.
Denounced BY League
Bribery" 'corruption'-these were
the nasty words hurled at poor Mrs
Warburton. Many republican womer
who were sure Mrs. Warburton't
motives were the most innocent die
not approve of her plan. The League
of Women Voters denounced the cast
prize plan and also the idea that any
body should be pledged to vote
straight party ticket.
A distinct menace to the standard
Of political independence is involved II
any proposal to cripple the intelli
gence of young wOmen by getting then
under lure of a cash prize to pledg,
themselves to vote tor q party labei
irrespective of the personalities or tn,
qualifications of candidates, statet
Mrs. Lawrence Lewis Smith. vic
president of the Pennsylvania league
at would be extremely regretabl'
if any movement should succeed which
would stimulate the interest of younI
women in politics by the use o
l money"
The democratic state organization
i chairman, Austen Mccullough, glee
: fully made campaign material out o
the plan.
II am advised by my attorney" sal
: Mccullough, that the plan is contrar
/, to the corrupt practices act. The on
thousand dollar cash prize is nothini
less than a buying of votes"
/ The award is for effort in organi
: cation and not to corrup the intelli
gence OF any young woman she said