Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-05
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Associate Chairman Of Woman's
Pinchot Committee Of Philadelphia
Gives Additional Data Con.
eerning the Primary
BY SARAH d. LOWRlE

Tn THIS column some time ago I wrote
| the part Of the story Of the Nomen's part
in the primary election that l had seen most
or; and before twenty four hours we're over
that were thought by the tellers to bring It
more up to date. ] am only TOO glad to
continue 1t In our next. Only had TO con.
fess that though I knew the half had not
ncr,,, been told; ! was was ignorant myself how i'm
E, ] have the tale direct from Mrs. Samuel
scott. who was the associate chairman of
the pinchot Committee Of Philadelphia,
how the women of that organization were
turned into in the way of near political
machine" in less than months time
have also some word of mouth data from
Mrs Altemus concerning her "stalwarts.'
Maybe ne readers Of this column are fed
up with How Women, Won. the: ELECTION
mink that with all their energies they
wanted IT won: And certainly both Mrs.
Altemus and Mrs. Scott we're great helps
IN the statewide move that won 1t.
WE ALL know how Mrs. Altemus made
w. her committee independent Of boss
politics last autumn. how she gallantly stood
by her guns and refused to net beaten. and
now now under her plucky stand the women that
another day.
But most Of us do not know how it was
3.
certainly does know how it was done. take
up, the .tale:
!, Before the last week of the campaign
tnere were active organizations Of wohen
WORKING Tor Pinchot in thirty nine of the
as the bloody Fifth nd the foreign dis.
trict river wards, these organizations we're
OF course, only comparatively small oases in
a a desert OF gangsters. but still enough to
tTun. tTu ior something. In. seventeen wards
organization VI Al vrSxk
WORKERS .ha 1 and watchers In every division Of
the ward. In ten more wards about half
ING DIVISIONS were we'll covered.
me sources Of these Pnchot organiza-
suns san,,.t;e were as follows: Mrs. Altemus' or
OF t1e completely organized wards. In these
wards we simply took over and used Mrs.
hhitemus organizations. Although many Of
LaI snsse ward organizations of Mrs. Altemus
had fallen into inactivity during the winter.
they were available. and the enthusiasm Of
Ine campaign pulled them together again.
~ tne remaining twenty wards, where Mrs.
t...emius ona, had either no organization or an
ffSnd']ation fnHnd Hhn; not favorable to Pnchot. |
mittces, using where could as a nucleus
already existing organizations, such as the
'otrrs League. which gave me two local
Whrd organizations. In twelve wards there
w "I h,n!, mn1thing 10 rely on. and in those had
20 build entirel" new ward organizations
IN one ward there was n local Organization
anlliated with Mrs. Lormer's club, which
became the Pinchot committee of that ward
oo,, nh nve wards @ ! was able to get at groups of
w.i,h wGhe. VINO had worked in other campaigns
@ Mi'n thc menS local Republican clubs.
reached these through the men who were tho
iocnn ilnchot committee ward chairmpn.
1 IL" tllhc element was both a difficulty
UNI u .nelp. Except in the heat of a cam.
h"ifJ hhifn IT,, IL would be practically impossible to
oulid new organizations in twenty wards in
.en uhFS' some of the cards came com.
paratively easily. But good deal of inyes.
lishtioh was necessary even in these IN
Suard GUAR, against pretended independents who
wo"id wo,J rGaiiS Sa paving with both sides and
,out mou.d 4ouD'e cross us at the critical mo.
@ nient. lou would be surprised to find how
many women who were trying TO climb on
me finchot band wagon got valid evidence
W.T.. oi thls type. and refused them n place
tit;cnte W. M'tu committee Or watchers Ger
. .incnte. In some wards that ought TO have
given US good workers il was very discour
aging, as everybody was moving ut of
town. etc. or had illness. In one Of these.
aitcr getting all the leads could, ! had
10 interview personally twenty three women
VINO were suggested by various orgnnizations
rs possibilities before I could find one of
the right ca!ibcr who was free Mt this time
to take the chairmanship of the Pinchot
women women III mat ward: Some of the ward
hairlncn ] secured had worked nj times
"lth the League Of Women Voters Several
mad had ten or fifteen years good noliticoi
training in the WOmen's League for t;ood
Government 'ou
"Of the women watchers for Pinchot who
numbered about 1900 or 1900. 300 name.
were sent to us by the Pennsylyania Remh.
lcan Women's Club. OF these more thnn sev
enty-tive were duplicates of names that had
already come in from other organizations so
that their net contribution was about 1Wo to
125 watchers. Five or six hundred cnme
from Mrs. Atemus' organization. Abont
s"venty-hvc from the local Voters IenQue
organizations. The rest were secured by the
new pinchOt committee women ward chair
men. except few names that were scnt to
me directly by the men of the Pinchot com
mittee, supplemcnting the lists sent in BY the
women chairmcn.'
60 MUCH for one Of the women organ.
- izer's ''closr- up" of the new force at
work In the city. -
1t appears that detectives wcro sent IN
check up the primary watchers and within
the ranks of the Pinchot forces these Pin
chot detectives found some women nlovinp
double game. They have a blacklist now
in the office of about 100 names marked
"doubtful.'
OF course. IT is TO be expected thcrc would
| be some trnachery, but what Intcrcsts mo
| is that it was provided against in so neat
| and businesslike n way. The dctectiyes we're
doubtless employed, but the committee that
| employed them was volunteer one and with
| no AK to sharpen but the AK of patriotism.
| Let us hope this new and lusty machine
| will not be scrapped,
| Eight young men of