Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-04
Woman Seeking
Seat in Senate
Hits NeWberrU
Fair Aspirdnt in Ohio an
AUOLOed Candidate for
High Place.
BY JuL1A c. HENDERSON.

The candidacy of woman for a
senatorial seat from Ohio, and one of the
first In America to SO announce herself,
is interesting to the women of Indiana
who have had higher official aspirations
than those laid down by the recent Re-
publican State Committee urging women
TO run for precinct committee women
or delegates to the State convention.
Mrs. Virginia D. Green, the Ohio candi-
date, who for ten years has been a mem
Der of the Cleveland board Of education,
frankly announces that her candidacy is
a protest of women against the pur-
chase of seat in the highest tribunal
In America, referring to the seating of
Senator Truman H. Newberry OF
Michigan.
She declares that america must not
allow chairs to be bought and sold to
the highest bidder. That as elections
are now run, American government is
not a representative government. The
Senators do not represent the people, they
represent the influences behind the great
wealth that put them in the Senate"
Women of all States are Of the same
opinion as, Mrs. Green and are rejoicing
that she is taking the stand that she has
in the matter. Indiana women of both
parties are slow to announce themselves
as candidates for official position, yet
there has been no little buzzing around
among them In an effort to determine the
women best suited to fill the offices, in
the coming elections.
That they are looking higher than pre-
cinct committee jobs, important as that
office may be, or as delegates to a State
convention, there can be no doubt. The
recent announcement that Miss Gertrude
Tanning MeHugh, the efficient secretary
Of the Democratic State Committee, is
being urged to run for Senator adds in
terest to the Indiana situation. However,
Miss McHugh empha ticaly denies that
she has even had a thought in that di-
rection, and that all talk along that line
has been considered by her as joke.
She thinks, however, that some women
are as capable of filing this position
as are some men. Pc
She AYERS that women should not be
selected simply because they are women,
but because of their ability to fill any
given office. She modestly states that
her equipment and qualifications are
not such as that office calls for, as she
measures them.
. While it is believed by the women Of
both parties that the men will not go
very far in advancing women in poll
tics in Indiana, they expect to see to it
that safe and sane women candidates
will be brought out in the coming pri-
maries.
Mrs Julia D. Nelson, Of Muncie, In
diana's first woman legislator, has re-
Gently announced herself as a candidate
for second term. That others will fol-
low in the near future is being talked
in political circles of both parties.
: The Republican State Committee has
had it's recent meeting with but little
show of encouragement to its women.
The Democratic State Committee, now
soon to meet, viii have a well thought
out resolution to face, from it's women,
passed at their recent Jackson Day ban
quet. Their action willsbe watched with
interest by the women of both parties.