Evening star., 1922-10-12
See Only Sentiment in Mrs. Eel
tons APPOINTMENT,


"The impossible has happened" the
Wheeling Register announces. That
Georgia. Of all states in the Union.
should have the first woman senator
10 q seven day wonder to the editorial
writer's Of the country. "For Geor-
gia," the New York Herald says. "is
one Of the states where the men in.
sisted that woman's place was in the
home" and now. in spite Of its bitter
opposition to woman suffrage. it has
done what the country expected KAN
sas to do"
But whether Gov. Hardwick's ap-
pointment Of Mrs. W. H. FELTON, to
succeed Tom Watson in the United
States Senate until q successor shall
have been elected" is . triumph for
women or . very hollow honor with
. sharp political slant 10 q subject
that 10 causing what would be called
in Senator Felton's district right
smart" discussion in the papers
Since cyrano de Berrerae ceased
through the air" the Brooklyn Eagle
thinks. "there has been no such grace
ful gesture as that of Gov. Hard
wick" and even II 1t can be discount
ed merely as "chivalry;" the Grand
Ked sees soo little Of ha he n
public life" and "Georgta's governor,
with the cultural backing Of the old
south, supplies a refreshing and
heart-warming example"
The appointment. as the Danville
(va.) Register points out. 'is obvious
cause the Senate seat will have been
duly filled in the regular election be-
fore the upper house meets again. the
newly appointed senator. the Norfolk
virsinian Pilot assures us. will never
ton Is. c.J Post adds. she will be
able hardly SO much as to try 1t on"
But for all that" answers the
Chattanooga News. 1.-The tradition is
broken. An American woman is q
senator" and she thus becomes the
Buffalo Times sees It, for "a date will
be indelibly inscribed upon the roll
Of history by the first endowment Of
. woman with the senatorial toga."
"a governor, by stroke Of his pen,
do for some years at least" the Cleve-
Mrs. Mrs Feiton, the Richmond Times
Dispatch adds. "a secure and peculiar
place in the political history Of the
country"
Evening World speaks as having
recognized ability" From the new
senator's constituency comes a closer,
more detailed view. The Atlanta Jour-
nal sees the appointment "as a fitting
tribute to . remarkable personality"
and
.As the first woman member of the
United States Senate Mrs. FELTON, will
round out a career long rich in at
tainments and In honors. - She
has lived through the most stirring his
tory Of the commonwealth and the re-
memorable part. The glory and grief
Of the eighteen sixties were hers to
share, and hers the fortitude and faith
from which a new south sprang."
Many southern papers join in high
ments Of Mrs. FELTON,, and the Mem
phis Commercial Appeal suspects
that twenty-five years ago, had she
started on a campaign for the Senate
and succeeded, she might have served
that body more usefully than many
Of the men from Georgia who have
To the majority Of editors, however.
especially those Of the west, Gov.
Hardwick's gesture" is eloquent Of
political shrewdness, and this both
from the standpoint Of what the De-
troit Free Press calls this pretty
suspected purpose to secure his own
nomination by filling the ad interim
position with an appointee who could
not be a formidable adversary at the
election. ''It may be-" the Norfolk
Ledger Dispatch grants. that Gov.
Hardwick sincerely wished to pay 9
chivalrous tribute to the women Of
Georgia. or that he wanted to tell
the world that he regards women as
being precisely on the same plane OF
politics, Intellectually, statesmanship
and all the rest Of it. as men," but
there remains the suspicion that
politicians are politicians always"
But the Pittsburgh Gazette- Time
hazards the guess that ut may turn
out that Georgia women are not -
simple a. he fancies," for above all
thinss."". declares the g. Joseph lMo;)
offered . woman 1t must be In sin
cerity. Lack Of sinceE1ey IL invariably
i boomerang. The appointment OF
women to party councils followed BY
the ignoring fofs their presence In 90
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