The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-06-04
THEY DID HEAVY WORK
Pulled Doorbells "Out by the
Roots" and Saved" Scores
Of Republican "Souls"
WHERE ONE VOTE COUNTED
Woman Decided the Babies
could Wear Safety Pins"
Until II Was All Over

The writer was connected with tho
publicity department Of the women's
campaign In Pennsyivania ana speaks
from first hand observation of all
the Developments which resulted In
P,nohots nomination.
by ESTHER EVERETT LAPE.
In the victory of clifford Pinchot
in his race for the republican nomi-
nation for governor OF Pennsylvania
women demonstrated for tho first
time on big scale that they would
not vote NJ their husbands and faith
ers. but asserted their independence
In way which left old-time lead
ors short OF breath.
Pinohots victory was not alto
gethcr that OF the women, but they
which he could not have been noml-
mated.
First, through Mrs. Barclay War
burton's leadership they threw his
way some regular" republican sup
port In campaign In which tho
main object OF the mons machine
was to prove that Pinchot was some
Kind or Irregular republican. whom
real republicans must rcpudiate.
Secondly, tho women contributed ia
every county most OF the hard work,
Ing, the canvnssing, tho personal So
llicitation, the soul saving that ac-
tually got votes. Soul saving In tho
word. That IL exactly the spirit In
which the women went about "a.
And that brings us to tho third thing
they contributed--they supplied this
ardor. the religious zeal in cam
palgn which otherwise would have
been tcpid. for there was no par
N IA ~ E..
against George n. Alter.
All of the Alter literature harped
upon the same point. the regular
lty' of Alter, the fact that no had
been "chosen" by party leaders to
represent the party, and all OF the
clements In II that had any right TO
be represented. Even the sample
ballot scnt out by tho organization
forces on the day before the primary
characterized Alter in huge type az
the "regulnr republican candidate"
Tho whole force OF tho opposition
went into emphasizing Pinchot's In
dependence. In challenging his re-
republicanisrn, past and present, and
In appealing to the rank and file for
loyalty. Assiduously they spread the
inpression that there was something
off color about the Plnchot candl-
dacy. They belIeded that they could
bank on popular Ignorance of tho
real idea and theory of tho direct
primary, and OH the respect for ira
dition to which tho republican state
of Pennsylvania has clung so long.
Women Wouldn't Be Fooled.
Especially they tried TO bamboozlo
the republican women county lead
ers and voters. II In really q won-
der that they did not succeed with
the republican women officers and
leaders, for women all over the coun-
try who have been taken into the
party organization as state and
county and local officials have dis
played desire not to be trouble
some. They have taken the atti-
tude that to set In at all was n
great thing. and that they must be
slow to anger and plenteous In mercy
and conformity They feel that
the independent thinking had better
be done by those on the outside. A
stand like that taken by Mrs. War
burton and small group OF other
workers was practically unknown.
The effect of this stand was
promptly evident in the attitude OF
local women leaders In the 81 cOun-
ties and in thousands OF commune
ties in Pennsylvania. The new lead
ersbip Strengthened their spines and
liberated their minds from the old
traditions. They hadn't n thought
In the world about "bolting the par
ty" They would not have Joined
any such movement. Hence the i'm
portance OF making II clear to thom
that Pinchot was a regular republic
can running In a regular republican
primary. Their support OF him was
n movement of republican women
working inside party lines, using
party machinery and conforming 10
the spirit and letter OF tho party
laws and the direct primary law OF
the state. They were not fighting
or repudiating the republican party.
They were simply reclaimlng II. In
this Pennsylvnnia campaign there
was no national issues. There was
not really critical state Issue. eS-
cept economy and sound financial
administration ht Harrisburg. This
issue was the ono the women empha-
slzed--who was 20 own and control
the republican party OF Pennsyl-
yania7
II was pretty hard shedding for the
organization men to try TO take away
Plnchots republican respoctability,
with the republican women contin-
ually proclaiming that Pir~hot and
Pinchots candidacy represented tho
best In the republican party and that
his nomination meant Saying" the
party In Pennsylvania. reclaiming II
from the bosses 20 whom IL had been
so long subject, 10 the detrlment OF
the marty and the state, and
restoring II to the rank and file OF
the voters.
From that idea came the womens
ardor for pinchot Women voteFS
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