Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-09-19
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TO BLAZE NEW TRAIL
Mrs. La Toilette and Mrs.
Wheeler Will Take Political
Stump to Assist Mates

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.-Wo-
mems progress in politics will be
demonstrated within the next few
weeks of the presidential campaign.
wives of candidates on presiden-
tial ticket will take to the stump as
real political helpmeets to their hus-
bands.
The women who will blaze this
new trail of political action will
be Mrs. Belle La Toilette and Mrs.
Lulu Wheeler, wives of the hide
dependent candidates for president
and vice president respectively.
Mrs. La Follette's first speech OF
the campaign probably will be made
at an Independent Progressive rally
scheduled for some nearby point in
Maryland. Mrs. Wheeler, who will
accompany her husband on his tour
into the middle west and west, will
address gatherings, particularly of
women, int the same towns where
Senator Wheeler speaks.
Although this will be new ex-
perience for the nation-having the
wives of presidential and vice pres
idential candidates speaking from
the stump-it will be no new exper-
fence for the two women.
Campaigning for their husbands
is an old story to them. True
this will be their first venture as
orators in a national campaign.
But as each of them has always
been her husbands right-hand as
sistant in campaigns for minor of
fees, even including their campaigns
for the Senate, they see no reason
why they should not participate
equally now that their bubbles head
presidential ticket.
Being both progressive and IN
dependent wives, they're going to
proceed on that basis. Conservative
folks may frown, but they don't ex-
pect to win the conservative vote
1Of tneE IlcKeI, anyway!
This move by the wives of the
Independent candidates may be the
solution to the puzzle that has been
bothering the political managers Of
all the parties, which puzzle is:
GLOW can we stir the interest
of the women voters?"
All of the parties, of course, have
"Women's Bureaus" with some sem
blance of enthusiasm among the W.
men. But although the women were
fighting tooth and toe nail few
years ago for the ballot, now that
they've got it they're seemingly try
ing to conserve it as a sort of SOU
venir instead of using it, the cand.-
dates complain.
This is particularly true of the
very organizations that were in tho
thickest of the fight for equal SUI
frage.
The National League of Women
Voters, for instance, are both stand
ing on the sidelines, declining to be
entfeed unto any of the rival poll
teal camps.
Officials and influential members
of these organizations say they must
not side either with Republicans,
Democrats or Independents lest their
action be miscontructed. Since
their organizations are non-partisan,
they must be non-committal.
A concentrated campaign to
crack this reserve on the part of
women's organizations is under way
by the womens bureaus of all three
political outfits.
So far as winning an open en-
dorsement for any candidate, how
ever, by any of the national woman
suffrage organizations, the outlook
is altogether bleak. There will be
no effort, on the part of any OF
them, to deliver" the women's vote
Probably they know they coundn':
deliver, even if they promised. So
they decline to raise any false hopes
1t is the individual women, not
the organizations of women, that
will decide where the women's vote
will land.
And, understanding feminine psy-
chology better than the masculine
campaigners, it is the vote of indi-
vidual women Mrs. La Toilette and
Mrs. Wheeler will invite from the
stump.