Evening star., 1932-01-27

The election Of Mrs. Hattie Caraway
to fill out the unexpired term Of her
late husband in the Senate arouses IN
terest throughout the country because
she is the first woman to serve in TINS
august body, except for Mrs. Feltons S
one-day appointment number OF
years ago.
Arkansas claims the distinction of
being the first State to elect woman
United States Senator" says the Rock
ford Register Republic as it notes that
her election lis tribute not only 10
herself but to the esteem in which Ar
kansas voters held her talented nus
band"
The State plainly showed to Mrs.
Caraway it's desire to have her occupy
this important place. AS the worcester
Evening Gazette states: Mrs. CaraWay
hurled her opponents gloriously. In
many precincts they received no votes
at all; in her own home city, Jonesboro,
they received only two votes. The cleo
ton shows that she held an enthu-
siastic following. Nor did she return
from Washington to campaign in per-
SON. The Abilene Daily Reporter
quotes her victory as having been IN the
proportion of IA, ,12l as against 43b ana
925, respectively, for her two masculine
opponents"
Her election is the most notable vic
tory for the feminine side OF the e!ec-
torate since it was granted the fran
chise" declares the Hartford Daily
Times. So, also, comedies the Prov
dence Journal, rs it remarks that the
triumph of Mrs. Caraway, the first
elected Senator of her sex, marks an
other milestone IN the progress OF
women" Referring to the history OF
woman's fight for equal rights, the
Journal continues: I'VE think OF Wom-
an suffrage as a development OF receHt ~
date, but the crusade IN behalf OF IL
has been intermittent for centuries.
In Italy. where the universities
were open to women in the fourteenth
and fifteenth centuries, we find some
women of that period demanding
equality of rights. Only seven years
after Christopher Columbus discovered
America English women signed pc
tition asking for the voting privilege.
Mistress Margaret Brent demanded, IN
1647, a place and voyce' in the Mary
land Legislature. Some woman prop
erty owners voted indeed, IN early
Virginia, and under the Old Province
Charter in Massachusetts, from 1871
to 1870, a similar privilege existed.
The Cleveland News, too, thinks that
leaders of the feminist movement may
find a proper source of pride in the
occasion which marked the first time
in history that a woman has oeen
elected to the Senate"
"Of course the entrance OF women
into the United States Senate was IN
evitable," remarks the Altoona Mirror,
but this paper considers it rather sur
prising, however, that the first woman
Senator should come from SoutheSp
State, for it has been pretty generaly
believed that the conservative South old
not look with favor upon the intrusion
of women into the political arena"
The Port Huron TimeS-Herald, discuss
ing the personality of Mrs. CaraWay, is
interested because she lis not at all
the sort of woman we should have eX-
pected to be our first active Senator OF
her sex. She is not at all Of the politi-
clan type"
That she is we'll informed, however,
Is widely agreed. Says the Roanoke
Times on this point: THE new Senator
from Arkansas is much better qualified
to hold the place than others OF her sex
who have been named to public ONCE,
for she obtained valuable experience IN
the years she assisted her husband, be-
coming a close observer of congressional
politics" Similar is the tribute paid
by the Manchester Union, as it de-
clares Although Mrs Caraway's VIC
tory may be interpreted as tribute Of
respect to her late husband, no one
doubts her ability to f1ll the high Office
to which she has been chosen. For
years she was closely associated with
her husband as counselor and assist
ant, and she is not unacquainted with
the problems that must come under
her consideration. She has already