Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-05
MANY SENATORS
UN0PP0SED To
SISTER S0L0NS
Woman Told Welcome
Would Be Extended if
Female Is Elected.
Various Views Heard as
To Places For Their
Activities.
BY VANCE

BY CAROLINE VANCE
special Correspondent Of The Great Fails Tribune
Copyright, 1922, By The Great Falls Tribune.
Washington, June 4.-If as a result
of the topsy turvy conditions existing
In American politics a woman should
be elected to the United States senate
this fall Or in 1924. will she. as she
crosses the hallowed threshold, find
welcome on the mat?
l put this question. bluntly to a bloc
OF senators and they all answered
yes" What else could the poor
things answers
Senators have progressed far from
that small boy lack of control when
they would have handed out black
looks and even jeers to the leggy, pig
tailed little girl creature who would
nave dared to invade their pirates
cave.
Nevertheless, under the veneer they
nave acquired, some remnant of that
feeling, call it sex a%ntagonism if you
Will. remains. 1t sticks out even in
those senator's who are loudest in
lauding the efforts of women who are
trying this year to fight their way to
the senate.
Many Women Candidates
Thus far the two leading feminine
asplrants for togas are Mrs. Peter O.
Oieson of Minnesota and Miss Belle
kearney of Mississippi. but there are
half a score others dipping their timid
toes in the political pond to see just
how cold the water is.
Should any ladies be elected to the
senate during my term of office, /
shall try to be polite to EN-" bIurted
out Senator Moses of New Hampshire.
and this is peysaps indicative of the
general attitude of the senate.
AS a matter of fact senator's are |
looking forward to participation by
women in the affairs of the senate |
with about the same happy anticipa-
ton that most men look forward to
ladies night at the club.
Senator Ashurst of Arizona. begin
ming alphabetically, fails to see where
the dignity of the most august body
in the world would be lowered by the
of a woman.
The world has seen some capable
queens. Elizabeth and Victoria of
and Wilhelmina of Holland.
SO why not a woman senatorw He
questions not without some degree of
reason.
Senator Shortridge of California
the idea that woman's
would have anything to do
her success in the senate.
Says knowledge Needed
at takes knowledge to be efficient
in the senate. Work on committees
requires a trained mind and impartial
he says. But the senator
is quite sure that there is no sex
n the intellectual world and that there
are plenty of women with keen minds
who would be e%minently qualified for
he senate
1t was rather surprising to find
Ladd of North Dakota. who
las always been a staunch friend of
he women warning them against run
hing for the senate. ,
They will injure their cause by 60
ng too fast" he disuades. There I
should be now a period of training for
women. IT is better for them now
o seek municipal offices like places
IN school boards. etc" :
He makes exceptions. however. for :
women of his own state because !
hey have voted for years and have |
lad that training. ,
Senator King Of Utah comedies the e
light of women to run for offices. .
the senate, but deplores !
he tendency. I'VE need women now I
n the home more than We ever need
hat is the matter with the world to- {
lay. There are too many apartment q
too many boarding houses, and ,
lot enough homes" ,
The senator does not insist that
place is wholly in the home, %
he thinks a back to the home" q
movement On the part of women :,
be decidedly beneficial in the !
ace. :
Senator Walsh of Massachusetts :,
the point. "a woman has \
ust as much right as a man to run e
or the senate and that she was apt to S
e just as capable as a man and that s
he should be considered exactly as q D
IAN in the senate" -
Senator Dupont of Delaware de-
Jared for equal rights, but not prefer
ntial rights" 4
/ really should have asked Carrie
'hapman Gait and Alice Paul to col
.bOrate on the statement which SEN
tor LaFollette was willing to have
lade for him in respect to women -.
INNING for the senate. He was anx- n
Jus to get back on the floor of the
mate to vote on some question, so
e gave me carte blanche to make a
tatement in favor of the proposition
strong as you have a mind to.
Dung lady," he said.
Senator Spencer of Missouri was b
illing to state that a woman might Il
e a greater acquisition in some in s.
tances to the senate thar n man. a
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