Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-30
WILL WOMEN PUT
IN PRESIDENT To
SAVE ON CLOTHES?
Pomerene Makes Assertion
That Tariffs Cost Them
Billion.
By CAROLYN VANCE.
Special Correspondent of Great Falls Tribune

= Copyright. 1922. by The Great Fails Tribune
Washington, Oct. 29.-Wil the
women Of the country elect a man to
the presidency in 1924 who promises
TO make their clothes cost one billion
dollars a year less? The democrats
think it is quite possible. but the re-
publicans do not believe they will allow
themselves to be fooled.
The man, it is limited, who is to do
the promising standing upon a platform
of fine feathers for fine birds, is Sen
ator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio. To be-
come a candidate for the presidency in
1924 he must be reelected to the
senate in the present campaign.
Which may explain why the atten-
ton of women is 50 focused on the
Ohio campaign. 1t is a preliminary
tussle. the women leaders believe, for
the presidency in 1924.
Women Leaders In Ohio
Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, the re
publican leader. has hardened to the
danger to her cause. She has rushed
QUITO Ohio calling upon women not to
allow themselves to be hoodwinked
into thinking that all they need to do
in order to trail around in spiffy I'm
cries forever after is to vote for Sen
ator Pomerene. She will spend the
next 10 days in Ohio desperately de
termined to slap the presidential bee
in the Pomerene bonnet into a bee
heaven. She sounds a new slogan,
stand by the president" Mrs. Emily
Newell Blair. the democratic leader,
is now out in the presidents home
She is lust completing an extensive
sneaking campaign in behalf of Pome-
rene. !,
THE women of the country will
spend one billion dollars more TINS
coming year for their clothes. from
lace 70 hairnets. under the fordney,
McCumber tariff law. than they would
if the Observation-Disclosures law had
remained on the statute books.
This statement by Senator Pomerene
in. some of his campaign speeches Is
exnected to make such a profound m
nression on women that its influence
will extend into 1924. The theory, Is
that clothes may not make a man, but
r,ay make a president. If Pomerene
should succeed in his ultimate alnbi-
ton il would be the first time a man
las fioated into the presidency on OIL
Iowy promises to present women Win
scads and slathers of SILKS, etc.
Woman's Party Involved
The national women's party has also
herome mixed UP in the hectic Ohio
campaign. The democratic members oi
the marty have complained that Aiice
pau1 was unfair because she wrote d
letter for Representative Fess. VINO IS
onnosing Pomerene, and did not give a
similar one to the latter.
Meantime. like small boys whlstilng
to keep up their courage IN the DARK
politicians make q raucous racket Ten
ing why. they believe that women are
really o going to upset Things 50
badly November Z.
This bravado is typical Of politicians
the country over as the portentous Tth
comes nearer. It was clearly exhibited
at the luncheon given during the past
week in Baltimore by the Maryland
republican women's federation.
The republican state ticket was in
yited. And it came, to the last man;
not with bells on, perhaps but with
b%uttonieres. The posies on the lapel
were profoundly symbolic Of the change
that has come over the political world.
The candidates tried to appear non
cbalant before the 300 pairs Of more
or less friendly feminine eyes. but they
did not succeed very well. Some of
the ladies did their best to calm the
men. but. somehow their agitated feath-
PfS TpIuStu W lC ao"h- "N
told than that the women were not
really DESTROYS of q "woman's' bloc in
congress: that it probably would be
wears and years before there would be
apy women at all in the senate, and
that it would be a long. long time be-
fore a third of the house was feminine,
if ever.
Feminine Ambitions Disclaimed
The mistress of ceremonies. Miss
Grace Spofferd, disclaimed any high
FLYING political ambitions on the part
of the She says women are
very humble in their desires to serve.
They are only anxious to help men on
to the heights. wanting neither the
plumes nor the plaudits of politics. In
their humbleness she said the are very
much like the young man who aspired
to the life of the stage. He put an
advertisement in the paper reading as
follows:
"Wanted-Small part in Il play,
as a dead body or " shouts out
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