The Washington times., 1922-07-07
OPPOSING
MlJDO IN
maryland
Mrs. Peters-Parkhurst to Run
on Dry Platform in Fifth
District.

Sitting on the front porch o.
her home. three miles from Ber
wyn, Prince Georges county. Mrs
Virginia Peters-Parkhurst, nativ,
Of Washington and one-time Gov
ernment stenographer. but a resi-
dent of Maryland for the last
three years, today declared she
was confident that she would de-
feat Congressman Sydney E
Mudd and be the next representa-
tive in Congress from the Fifth
Maryland district.
Explains Confidence.
A small brown-eyed woman, her
brown hair slightly tinged with gray.
'her age forty years. Mrs. Peters.
Parkhurst left housekeeping tasks in
her small yellow clapboard house to
explain the reasons for her conf.
dence and the platform on which
she purposes to fight.
Her home is in a rather isolated
position, standing in a grove of trees
up a mud road which was so filled
with water yesterday that an auto
mobile sank to the hush OF the wheels
In 1t.
II am unqualjfiedly in favor Of the
Volstead act and of prohibition"
said Mrs. .Parkhurst. and
have. the backing of the Anti Saloon
League, the League of Women
Voters and the National Women's
party. l am in favor Of dismissing
every soldier in the service Of the
United States, sending them home,
selling their camps and deVotingrhe
money which is now spent on them
to mothers.
Would Pension Mothers.
Every mother should receive SO
q month for every child she has until
that child Is fourteen years old. The
mothers are the real soldiers of the
world. There will be no more need
for other soldiers. There will be
no more wars. The women will see
to that. am in favor of giving the
soldiers the bonus they have been
fighting for, however.
Every disqualification which now
operates against women should be re-
moved They should be placed on ex-
actly the same basis as men. l have
long been identified with the wom.
fans suffrage movement. l go into
Washington and to the headquar-
ters of the National Women's party
often. and I have made speeches
and written articles for the news
PAPERS in favor of woman's suffrage.
'I think women should run for e.
flee more than they do. They should
run on the Democratic ticket. My
husband is a Republican. but l am
Democrat" Why should all wom-
en- run as Democrats?" Mrs. Peters.
Parkhurst was asked.
Because I think that is the oarty
which represents right-thinking ana
Justice"
The candidates husband. Charles
Peters -Parkhurst, whose business Is
the selling OF chewing gum and IKE
automatic machines, was away from
home today.
Husband Backs Candidacy.
He is in favor of my candidacy"
she said, but he is not enthusi-
nstic. My son Robert. twenty years
old. my only child, is extremely
enthusiastic. We have an automo'
bile and about August am going
to start my campaign. My son Is
going to drive it. and I am giong
to speak from it, l am going to
visit every part of my district.
am also going to send out cam
paign letter to every voter and to
|. have placards distributed.
II am absolutely confident l shall
overwhelm Congressman Mudd in
the election. may have some
difficulty in the primary, but in the
election ! shall snow Mudd under. ;"
Until three years ago Mr.. and
Mrs. .Parkhurst lived in
Washington. Then they moved to
=, their present home. Neither hus-
band nor wife, according to the
latter, has thus far voted in the
Fifth district. But Mrs. Parkhurst
SAYS she is 100 per cent Mary
lander.
She Is a descendant, she asserts
of the Hill and the Magruder fam
flies on her maternal side, Glenway
Manor having been in the family
since the early settlement of Mary
land. Her father was the late
Capt. Charles w. Geddes. u. s. NJ.
whose ancestors came to Baltimore
from Scotland. She says they
were distantly related to the family
Of Sir Auckland Geddes, the British
ambassador to the United States.
Began Work At 16.
rapher when l was sixteen years
"and was paid 50 a week. That
shows what women can do"