Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-29

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man for your precinct. feel sure you
are anxious to do everything IN your
power to elect the splendid ticket
Hoover and Curtis which our marty IS
so fortunate as. to have in the field.
MIR. Hoover himself and the ma
tional committee are depe nding on the
women to save our country in this hour
of very vital moral religious crisis. We
must save the United States from being
Romanized and run ridden. and the
call is to the women to do so.
will you not please try TO get list
of every Republican woman and every
Hoover Democratic woman who votes
at your precinct? The men will help
be willing to make house TO house
canvass, distributing literature. and
finding out how the women feel in this
election-would you not?
I'VE are sending you some cards. and
will send more literature. if you wish it.
viii appreciate reply, giving us
an idea as to how your precinct stands
also list of Hoover women at your
precinct to whom We might send lit
erature.
Cordially yours,
WILLIE w. CALDWELL"
Run" Believed Misspelled.
Mrs Lyons assumed that run ridden"
was misspelling of rum ridden"
Mrs. Lyons wife of a Government
employee, told The Star today that she
was not affiliated with any political
party and w2S neither Catholic nor
Protestant, but member of the Church
of the New Jerusalem" Swedenbor-
gian congregation. She said she Ibid
not vote for Coolidge" in the last cleo.
ton, and voted for La Toilette in the
election before that. She said she was
an independent voter"
How in the world any one got the
idea that 1 was a Republican is a
mystery to me-" she said II have taken
part in none of their meetings, nor in
any other political movements out here.
/ suppose somebody just happened to
mention my name as a good person to
work among the women of my neigh
borhood, without first consulting me
about it.
Position on Voting.
How am 1 going to vote in Novem-
Der? Well. if the Republicans cannot
give me any better reason for voting
for Mr. Hoover than religion, 1 will
vote IOT. Gov. oInllH.
Mrs. Lyons. middle-aged woman of
cultivated manner and language, said
that the first she knew of her election
when she read it in a newspaper fol-
lowing a meeting of Republicans on
Columbia Pike.
When my husband called my atten-
ton to the use of my name in the
paper 1 Immediately called up Mr.
j. E. Spaulding chairman of the meet
ing and asked him If the report were
true. He said it was. l then asked
him why they would do such a thing
without my permission. explaining that
was not a Republican and would not
serve and didn't like the use of my
name in the papers in connection with
the campaign. Mr.. Spaulding said he
did not know how my name came to
be presented for vice chairman of my
precinct, but presumed it had been
submitted by Mr.. j. H. Bittenbender of
my community My husband went to
see Mr.. Bittenbender, but he said he
knew nothing about the matter. Mr..
Spaulding promised to take my name
off the list of precinct officials.
THE next day, however, / received
a notice of a Republican meeting TO be
held in the county. but I ignored 1t. be-
cause 1 supposed the notice had been
sent before my name had been removed
from the roster.
Angry at Letter.
81 thought no more about it until
received the letter from Mrs Caldwell
1 was so angry that. with
out stopping to read it carefully, and
not noticing at the time the reference
to 'Romanism.' l sat right down and
wrote Mrs. Caldwell that l thought 1t
very undemocratic for the Republican
party to insist on keeping me on their
mailing list after l had told them /
would not serve, and was not Repub-
lican. The letter / wrote her was not
as she says, but it was en-
phatic.
Later in the day 1 picked up the
letter again and was amazed to find
the clause about religion that I had
overlooked. / didn't know just what
step to take at first, but finally decided
it was my duty to let the world know
what sort of a campaign was being
waged here wrote letters to two
Virginia papers. quoting the part from |
Mrs. CaldWellS letter about Roman
ism and vital moral religious crisis !
That Is how the matter got into the |
papers. / am glad it has been made |
public, but / had no idea it would get |
so much first-page prominence /
lust wanted my protest to be known. |
sponsibIe for injecting this religious
issue into the campaign In Virginia,