Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-19
AS ONE WOMAN SEES 1T
What Women Did In the state Was
Largely Due to the Snubbin0
They Received From Or.
oanixatlon Leaders
By SARAH u. IOWR1E


choosing the winner when she backed Mr.
Pinchot he was reading the sentence Of dc.
feat for the side that he had backed to the
limit In order to overwhelm the independ-
ents with defeat. lie is very good loser,
is Mr. Baker. That is. he was capable then
and there. after a night Of great anxiety
and morning Of complete disillusionment,
TO be good friends with the persons who
had come out ahead. and to look the results
sqnarely in the face. ] also thought that
tude ms loser. those who had come out as
winners in that little group. the five women
gathered there. took the Responsibility en-
tailed by their victory in quite as good a
spirit. They were serious and deeply thank
fu and without rancor for what had been.
and with quiet npproachableness for what
could be.
T ASKED Mr.. Baker as he summed up what
L had happened how IT had happened. He
said quickly. and as though he had said it
more than once in the course of that last
twenty -four hours:
THE women did il 49,
Since then other leaders. from the Gov.
ernor to the contractor bosses, have said
the same thing. Only I noticed that the
ladies gave way slightly under the stress
OF his defeat. when he divided the onus of
~" defeat between the women and the coal
strike. which was Il verdict perhaps more
'ru" OF MS state OF mnd than 1t was of the
state of tho case.
Personally knowing women even better
than these gentlemen Of the political sort.
l 20 nor think il was due to women that
,,iiford Pinchot was elected the majority
Republican candidate for Governor. great
ana good man rs he is, and entcrprsing
and rcsourceful n candidate as he proved
himself. think the independent Repub-
leans could not have swung the women who
are new to voting into SO universal par
tsanshlp. even for Pinchot against Alter.
if the Organization leaders. from the Gov.
ernor to Mr.. Ware. had not done surrcp-
titiously and in corner what should have
been done openly and in order. and accord
ing TO the good traditions of Rcpublcansu.
IN the full light Of day. with all the pub.
nc'tI mat persons who have nothing to fear
should observe in Il matter touching the well
farc of a great Commonwealth
F7NHE women knew that neither they nor
L the State leader Mrs. Warburton. who
represented them had been consulted in the
hnal choice Of Mr.. Alter as the Republi-
can Organization candidate. They only
nrrw nno,",! ior certain that men who were "sus:
p"cted on account of their motives had
3cei gwen a chance to help in that final
decision by, the leaders who called the con.
c'af" together. That was not RepublicaniSm
as they understood it from the bosses them
selves; 1t was not Organization fair play
rs they had been taught it by the Organi
Zation chiefs. As between an Alter and a
i'lnchot they might. under regular and above.
n1ard methods. not have felt 50 much at
l,e'T,! 10 choose; regardless of the desires
OF the state leaders, but with the leaders
themselves not playing the game according
10 thr accepted rules. the women of the
organization. from their leader to the very
wives of the Stat" officials. felt justified in
choosing the candidate that promised by his
past records the most progressive and CON.
sri"ntiouS administration. Their attitnde
WAS not mat OF revenge for not being taken
ihto tne hnal councils of the State leaders II
was tnht BY eliminating them from those
'pun'!S 'hc organization leaders deprived
'n'hS'N'S OF Il very necessary co oneru-
tiOn. ''oPe'"
me ,'oV'rnor and tho others might we'll
I"Ne dIsl'Hsrd with the services of Mr..
i.mnrH Larry, Eyre or even of Mr.. vare as il
,omati ourmaa out Out not of tn" intelligent. CO.
olrratlv" l h"lp Of the persons who will not
sell their votes and who intend to use tban,
~ come back TO the point ,hot tho roo
' ~ SOD lor 'he defeat Of Mr.. Alter md tho
success OF Mr.. Pinchot must he lai,i t ~ .h .ho
toof n,, %, ane organization leaders who faiIrJ
corditinn' 20 ttn,m h ,nal times hav" changed and
iehroSc machine will not do for M ,h, .!', in.
Typ" or voter. 1t does not mnko fo mt"
'SaJh 'S'"pt among the very ipnnrant.
II makes for ro-oporative opnositinn NJ
t nr"S & may carry their wards by naytnv
they d" not H 90; s"' or Ry hy furnishing for what
IN" c,tF' nor is the city the Statc ~, Io
not SAY mat tho new type of yotor basn',
nls.,n ms or h'r price. or will not eagerly and
ialthtullN follow leader. but III" nr;cn "'i. is
raIeI"u"aS chno nus ana parks for the children, and
n scnuo's an" h'alth ccntcrS harbors and
roads. ana state budgets instead ~ stn," "."
n"ncl'S' credits instead of srund,Is on,'
tracts 'nat are awarded for labor n ho
performed not for favors that have 70 pe
A FOR the leader whom the women fol.
lowed in this late contest her nowor ,",.
in IN" fact that she asked no blind cnnG! 81!
dehcr OF any one Of them. nov H., H.
r'""'S' tA''iil faVorS. nor even cnrouro,o
them by high hopes of Immediate snonos,
w '"' n'In 'ld was 7" mark out a very ourn
"mou mu S'np' anI t"mrSr for herself, giving very
OPEN ana SiHlpl" reason for followin, a.
Ana then She followed it through thtct. .ni nj
thih' expecting other simple and ahovn
pohri women not 10 follow. bur IN oo
shoulder T." shonld"r with her through thirl
anu 'nin hN matter of course not be-.
rhu" by that way Law immodia,c or ov,r
near success but because that way was me
strhight"St. most direct road To ius,ico on',
right living for all concerned. ''''
And her Sur"nesS Of her fellow women YEAS
justified. They did walk with hon ""S
superior to her in experience and occou,.
PlIshhcnt. her eHun's and her interiors ,Iiks
spurrcd by h"r inventive surencss, and rn
Moved by the simplicity of her single.
mind"dnc>S.
A LETTER from the vice chairman of tho
"A rX"rntiv" committee Of the RepubIic,n
National t"mmittce--tho woman Thar g. 80
tn" Nation what Mrs. Warburton :" :"
the State-giv"s the point Of view that mos,
Of us have had during the stresses of this
campaign:
Republican National Committee. IJurr.o,
Taylor Upton, vice chairman cxccutiyo com.
mittcc. MunScy Building, Washington. u, e.
. -. May II. 1922.
Dear Mrs. Warburton:
Before the battle Is over, ! want IN tcl |
YOU how wonderful ] think YOU have hccn
in it all. am not saying this to approyc |
of any candidate. but for you TO have Inc
courage 10 do what You have done gives
me added faith in womankind.
To see n thing when others dn not "a