Evening star., 1925-05-28
WOMAN MAY MAKE
j. FIGHT FOR SENATE
Judge Allen of Ohio Is Loom
/ ing Strongly as Candidate
of Democrats.
BY ROBERT T. SMALL.

Nil1O, hdy -o.-1 lie
nrst really serious attempt of the
women of the United States to send
one or their sex to a regular term in
the United States Senate may be
made here next year. Miss Florence
Ellinwood Allen, judge of the Su-
preme Court of Ohio, is the candidate
likely to be selected
Miss Aliens availability for the
Senate is being considered by the
powers that be in the Democratic
state organization. Naturally, there
still exists among the old-line. leaders
some antagonism to high political
preference for women, but Miss Allen
has powerful influences behind her,
ana there is more than an even
chance that she will break down the
remaining opposition and obtain the
democratic nomination to run against
Frank B. Willis, the Republican in
cumbent.
Nationally Known Suffragist.
Miss Allen, or Judge Allen, as she
should be called, is a nationally known
Hgure. She has been prominent for
o long while in the feminist move
inent, having fought the battle for
equal suffrage and equal rights with
Yalor and unusual ability. Already
4 she has risen to one of the highest
positions ever won by a woman at
the polls--a striking tribute to the
strides women have made in the pro-
fessions. Miss Aliens first experience
on the bench was as judge of the
Court of Common Pleas in her home
city Of Cleveland. Before her term
expired there she was nominated to
the Supreme Bench and was elected
IN 1928. She is one of the six Su-
preme Court justices, the other five
being of the Sterner if not the stronger
Sex
Already Judge Allen has enlisted
the support of Newton D. Baker for
mer Secretary of War, and highly
influential in northern Ohio politics.
bliss Allen also is understood to have
the strong Endorsement of former
Gov. James M. Cox of Dayton. Some
OF the Ohio leaders have intimated
chat they would like the former Gov
ernor and presidential candidate in
1920 to make the race for the Senate
himself next year, but Gov. Cox has
turned a deaf ear to all such Sugges-
tions and has stated that so far as
standing for office is concerned, he is
out of politics for all time. He still
is deeply interested in the welfare of
the party which honored him as its
national standard bearer, but is i'm
mersed now in the affairs of his four
fourishing newspapers.
Will Draw Support.
Miss Allen is of such prominence
IN women's circles as to make her
candidacy national affair with the
sex and to draw into the Ohio cam
paign not only the sympathetic in
terest of her sisters, but the best
talent among the woman spellbind-
ers and party workers.
Senator Willis is looking forward
30 such an opponent with no little
misgiving. Because of the break
down of the so-called Harding
Saugherty machine and the ousting
of so many of the "Ohio crowd" at
Washington, the affairs of the G. o.
p. in the State are not all that they
might be. Senator Willis great
strength, Furthermore, always has
rested in the big dry vote of Ohio.
Miss Allen would at least split this
dry vote with the Senator if not win
a majority of 1t.
Although a politician, Miss Allen is
extremely frank. She admits, among
other things, to Al Summers, and says
she would not give up one of those
precious, fruitful years if she could.
She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah,