The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-29
CALLS ON WOMEN TO RESENT SLUR
 BY REPUBLICANS
Head Of Republican Sena- torial Campaign Commit tee Implies Women Not
 Fit To Hold Public Office.
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 [ Washington, July 29-Calhng upon the women of America to resent the en-alshsed statement of Senator Mo- <cormick, chairman of the Republi- can Senatorial Campaign Committee Suplying that they are not fit to hold knportant offices, Corden Hull, chair saan of the Democratic National Com Hfttee, has issued a statement in which he declared that Mrs. Olesen Dem ocratic nominee for the United States Senate in Minnesota, at whom senator McCormick's criticism was aimed. was national asset and her candidacy an inspiration to the wom- en of America. The statement in
 The recent published statement by Senator Medill Mccormick, chair man of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, in which he said, Persons might vote for a wom- an for superintendent of schools or for the town council or other little jobs like that, but when it comes to the Senate of the United States they did not believe women will vote for Mrs. Olesen, the Decoratic candidate for United States Senator from Min. nesota, should not go unchallenged by the women of America
 Resent Sur.
 "The Democratic National Commit tee resents this slur upon the capac- ity of women to hold important offices such as United States Senator or Con- gressman, which, in this instance, is aimed at the Democratic nominee for Senator in the progressive state of Minnesota.
 The Democratic party believes in the selection of the most competent capable and suitable persons to of flee regardless of sex. Wherever ii finds these qualities in any person, man or woman, the Democratic party favors the selection and election of such persons. The case of Mrs. Ole iC Y-a- quirement of the Democratic party. The Republican party through one of it's chief spokesmen openly repudiates this policy and this test, and makes an unjust discrimination against women, however fit and capable they may be.
 Democratic National Committee rec- ognize the absolutely equality of women with men in political affairs. They recognize the right of women to an equal participation in the party organization and the conduct of cam paigns, and as evidence of this the Democratic National Committee is made up equally of men and women, and this policy is extended to the minor organizations of the party where and when possible.
 "The Republican National Commit eoe has never recognized the right or women to be members Of that body and to take equal part in the con fuct of its affairs. The chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Com mittee now denies in effect the r1ghl of women to hold anw important of flee, regardless of qualification, nm plying that they all lack capacity and are therefore unfit.
 .tThe necessary inference of Chair man McCormick'S statement is that women have place and no busl- ness in the Republican party as at present constituted. Women are nat urally Democratic and progressiv. and the Republican party. as now gauized and controlled is plutocrattlc and reactionary, and is opposed to al most everything in morals ana Tn economies which the women of Amer
 Aside from being a reflection on women in general, Chairman McCor- mick's interview is a reflection on ana ma a repudiation of the women of his party who have succeeded in election to the Congress of the United States Miss Rankin of Montana and the sitting Congresswoman, Miss Robert son of Oklahoma-and a notice that they must not again aspire to thls high office.
 Great Honor.
 '~The Democratic party considers itself honored and fortunate in haV- ing for it's nominee for United States Senator in Minnesota a woman oI such great ability, of the demonstrat- ed capacity the high ideals, the noble purposes and the wonderful popular ity of Mrs. Olesen. The Democratic party regards her as a national as set and regards her candidacy as an inspiration to women of Amefts.a in every effort they may make in behalf of better government. Her 1deals are the ideals of the American home and the ideals that form the basis for the aspirations of American wom- en both in private and in public life. and of these aspirations she is one or the most eloquent and convincing ad- vocates in America. She stands TOT honesty. economy, simplicity, equality and purity in private and in puphc life .'She stands for the legislative pro- gramme of. the League of Women Voters and is in sympathetic accord with women's organizations all over the country She is exactly the type of woman that would be helpful to womankind at the national capitol Surely the great mother-heart Of America is entitled to a voice in our highest legislative bodies.
 ''If she had represented Minnesota in the United States Senate instead of Senator Keuog, Truman H. Newberry of Michigan would not now occupy a seat in that body, and if she shall be elected in November, it will mean that the Newberry case will be reOpened, which would mean that it would and vote would never be given in favor of an infamous profiteerinS tariff bill to increase the high cost of living to the masses of the people for the benefit of the few, under which the women of America will pay a billion dollars more annually for their clothes alone than at the present time. Her entire career is a guarantee that