Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-10-29
NINE ZEN WOMEN
SEEK SEATS IN
NATIONAL HOUSE
Four Are Candidates for the
Senate and IS Hope to
Be Elected to the Lower
Branch of Congress.

Special to The journal.
Washington, Oct 2S.-Women
are coming into their own in poll
tics-national politics at least
This is the first year since the rati-
fication of the nineteenth amend
ment that public interest is not
concentrated on some great poll
tical problem of international i'm
port. This "off year" affords the
first real opportunity for women
ambitious to enter public life to get
something like a fair and unbiased
hearing before the electorate.
The result is that four women
are seeking senate seats and that
fifteen hope to be elected to places
in the House of representatives.
Already one woman has been duly
appointed a United States senator,
but because congress is not in ses-
sion has not been sworn in and
seated. The membership of the
lower house already includes one
woman representative, the beloved
Aunt Alice" Robertson of Okla
homa.
Political Washington never has
taken kindly to the idea of women
in politics. Nor has Washington
itself, although it is without the
privilege of the franchise under the
constitution, welcomed the suffra-
gists. 1t is not so long ago that
the first suffrage parade in Wash
ington was mobbed on the historic
Pennsylvania avenue and the police
did little or nothing to protect the
women marchers for the cause of
political equality. Unenfranchised
Washington citizens chortled when
the pickets at the White House
were sent to the workhouse of the
District of Columbia at Occoquan.
Probably not having the vote
themselves they did not wish
women to be granted vote. Pos
sibly because the city's residents
are naturally conservative they did
not wish the franchise extended
and equal rights granted to women.
Washington Resentful.
No matter what the reason Is,
Washington has been consistently
resentful of woman suffrage and
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the possibility of several women
gaining congress seats
First of the women candidates
to throw her bonnet into the ring
was Mrs. Peter Olesen, democratic
nominee for the senate in Minne-
sofa. Feminism met setback the
moment she was named and she
almost lost the nomination by a
technicality. Like all women who
have gone into politics she wished
to retain her individuality and
wanted to appear on the ticket as
Mrs. Anna d. Olesen. The matter
was carried to the courts Ono
women judges there) and it was
decided that if she went before the
electorate it would have to be as
"Mrs. Peter Olesen." Mrs. Olesen
is supposed to have a pretty fair
chance against Senator Trust
Buster" Kellogg.
The neighboring state of Wis
consin furnishes another demo-
cratic woman ambitious to change
her tailor-made suit for a sena-
torial toga. She is Mrs. Ben
Hooper of Oshkosh and she has at
tempted the seemingly impossible
task of defeating Senator Robert
M. La Toilette. Judging from the
primary returns Mrs. Hoopers
battle is hopeless. Whether Mrs
Hooper runs officially as Mrs. Ben
Hooper or as Jessie Jack Hooper is
not known here.
Calder Seems to Be Safe.
In New York State the contest
between the incumbent, Senator
William M. Calder of Brooklyn and
DIR. Royal S. Copeland is enlivened
by the presence in the field of
Mrs Ella l.. Boole. Her platform
is better enforcement of the Vol
stead law and she has the backing
of the w. C. T. u. and certain re-
form organizations. The women
of the two old line parties, how
ever, are unlikely to be drawn
away from their allegiance because
one of their own sex is running,
and unless ZAP Smith polls such
phenomenal vote that he liter
ally will drag in DR.. Copeland as
q winner, Senator Calder seems to
be holding the three-cornered race
safe.
Pennsylvania provides the fourth
woman candidate for the senate,
in the person of Mrs. Rachel c.
Robinson who is running as a Pro-
hibitionist for the seat once held
by the late Philander c. Knox.
Mrs. Ellen Duane Davis, Of Phila-
delphia, had aspirations for this
senate seat but her husband pre-
vailed upon her not to undertake
be too much of strain upon her
strength. She was not to be
daunted, however, and won the
regular Democratic nomination for
the House in the Second District.
She is the great granddaughter of
Benjamin Franklin and is widely
known and popular in the district
where she is runnig
The following table indicates at
glance just where these progress
sive women are seeking national
honors and shows which parties
they hope to represent at the
capitol:
1I&flHPSOld, lTS. EeleT oieStII,
democratic.
New York. Mrs. Ella L. Boole,
prohibitionist.
Pennsylvania, Mrs. Rachel c.
Robinson, prohihitionist.
Wisconsin, Mrs. Ben Hooper,
democratic.
House
Arizona, Mrs. H. A. Guild, re-
publican.
California, Elvina s. Beals, So
cia1ist.
# Illinois, Mrs. Winifred Mason
Huck, republican. .
Indiana. Esther Kat h lee IN
O'Keefe. democratic.
Minnasnta Lillian Coy Gault