The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-08-02
WOMEN VOTERS
PLAN OWN
BLOC
Ohio League Expects to Take
Prominent Part in SeIec-
ton Of "a Tickets.
By ROBERT s. THORNBURGH.
International News Service.

International News Service.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. g.
Ohio politics. with all the complex
ties, intrigues and enigmas bred of
years Of Mark Hannas, McKinleys,
Forakers, Harmons, Coxes and
Hardings, must undergo g. radical
evolution to meet the exacting re-
quirements of women of the State.
This is the ultimaturn emauating
from headquarters of the Ohio
League Of Women Voters to OLD
party chiefs as the nation primes
itself for the Presidential campaign
of 1924.
With Ohio the home of both
Presidential candidates of the 1920
campaign and ready to offer for re-
nomination President Harding on
the Republican side and former
Gov. James, A. Cox in the Demo
cratic lists and with a host of
national political leaders from
whom could easily loom dark
horses" the stand of the women
voters is Of paramount significance
from national standpoint.
Plan WOmen's Bloc.
Like the farm bloc, the labor
bloc and all the other subdivisions
Of politics, the women Of Ohio are
/! planning to enter the arena-with
the firm determination of hearing
the echo of powerful woman s
bloc resound in the halls of Con-
gress.
SO far no women candidates have
been mentioned for national or
fees, but the feminine clique is
ready to take a leading role in the
selection of the male party offer
ings.
Included in the front rank in
women's affairs Of Ohio are Mrs.
Robert Taft, daughter-in,law of Chief
Justice William Howard Taft; Mrs.
Atlee Pomerene, wife of former
United States Senator; Miss Julierte
Sessions, president of the Ohio
League of Women Voters; Mrs.
Newton D. Baker, wife of the for
mer Secretary of War; Miss Eliza
beth Hauser, secretary of the Ma
tional League Of Women Voters,
| and Miss Belle Sherwin, first vice
president of the league. Neither
Mrs. Warren G. Harding nor Mrs.
James A. Cox are members of the
Ohio League of Women Voters.
Will Open School.
Efforts of the Ohio women to
dominate public affairs of the
Buckeye State in the next cam
paign viii begin in Columbus early
in the winter with the opening of
school Of politics. A conference
will be held at Ohio State Univer-
| sity, with the young women Of the
school in active participation.
National women's leaders, in
Guiding Mrs. Maud Wood Park, of
Washington, head of the League of
Women Voters as well as the best
Ohio boasts in the way of male
politicians and statesmen, are ex-
pected to talk and try to tell the
women what politics is and how
to get the most out of it.
The conference here will be fol-
lowed by citizenship and political
schools in all counties of the State.
| The women are out to get IS
per cent of the qualified voters Ic
| next President. They said about
| ~ per cent voted in the last Presi-
Dental election.
Ohio women are backing the
world court program, feeling that
| such an association Of nations is
an initial step toward permanent
peace. Many of them are Inclined
to flirt with the league of nations.
The League of Women Voters, a
non-partisan organization, insists
that many of the old-line suffragists
| cling to partisan organizations and
are "hide-bound" Republicans or
Democrats. An effort to get them
to throw aside parties for a may
the best man win" policy Is being
made.
| An Ohio issue which has stirred
the women against present. policies
of the State government-the re-
moval of Mrs. Mae Stannard as
chief matron of the Girls Indus
trial School, and the upholding Of
this removal by the State Civil
Service Commission, has created d
situation which Is said to be unit
! ing women voters in a drive against
partisan politics.
According to the league, Mrs.
| STANDARDS removal was caused by
politics. They asserted no weight
was given by the State administra-
ton to Mrs. STANDARDS proved fit
| ness for the position.
A drive to eliminate the posi-
bility of removal of competent Of
| ficials, whether men or women,
because of politics. will be started
in the fall, according to Miss Ses-