Evening star., 1935-09-12
WOMAN IS BACKED
FOR c. 0. P. OFFICE
Mrs. G. B. Simmons, Farm
Wife, Advocated for
Vice Presidency.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, September 12.-Mrs.
George B. Simmons, Missouri farmers
wife, who rocketed into the political
spotlight with grass roots" speech
in June. was proposed for the vice
presidency today rs the Republicans
best hope Of beating the New Deal
in 1886.
Her name was advanced by another
woman. figure in the steel industry,
Mrs. Jean OHaver Shassere.
Her nomination would be the out
extraordinary something" that the
Republican party will need to carry
its ticket, Mrs. Shassere predicted in
an interview.
In addition to the 'women's vote
down to the last woman" Mrs. Shas-
sere said Mrs. Simmons could COM
mand the ballots of the farmer and
his wife because she is one of them"
She knows her cows and chickens
not from theory. but from actual ex-
perience." Mrs. Shassere, famous as
the only woman salesman of steel,
declared
She would appeal to the city house
wife in her plea for lower food costs,
not plowing under or destroying, but
raising more Of everything"
Borah Favored.
A man TO lead the Republican slate
to the White House was more difficult
to find in Mrs Shassere's opinion.
Senator William E. Borah Of Idaho
seemed the best of available material
to her.
Aside from putting new blood into
the party leadership, Mrs. Shassere
said Mrs. Simmons election would
have a salutary effect on Congress.
With a woman presiding in the Sen
ate, she said. "There'd be less clown
ing and fooling and more of decorum
We haven't had recently
She said she had already suggested
George F. Getz of Chicago. treasurer
of the Republican National Commit
tee, that Mrs. Simmons campaign
be left up to the women including
the question of funds
Let each woman give dollar, and
theren soon be a couple of hundred
thousands" she said.
There's going TO be a woman Presi-
dent or Vice President some day. SO
why not do something about it now
1t would be smart stroke
Mrs. Simmons Rakes New Deal.
Yesterday Mrs. Simmons raked the
Democratic administration with new
broadSides.
L look across the land I love with
a feeling of desolation," she declared.
knowing how in Washington there
are soft-handed SophisticateS who
would Scorn TO touch 4 pillow handle.
yet who have been given the power
to tell my farmer husband what and
how much he can raise
Her thrustS at the New Deal.
couched in the plain language OF
her Marshall, Mo. neighborhood,
evoked rounds of applause from Chi
cago G. o. P. leaders gathered at
luncheon
They taunt us for a plan for agri-
culture" she said. Has it not been
enough that in the years when farm
people built great Nation that every
farmer made his own plan? We
do not need any imported plan that
regiments us and ruins our oppor-
tunities. We need to regain our foreign
markets, less and lower taxes. an
end to the unrest that this admin
istration has so immeasurably in
creased.
Hits Potato Control.
II cannot see how putting the mark
Of the beast of bureaucracy on our
white potatoes can contribute to pros
perity.'
a vast CommuniStic design" and said
she saw forces capable of destroying
the Constitution when the pieces are
put together" She added:
When the Third Internationale in
Moscow told American Communists
TO vote for the New Deal it put the
President in quite a lather. His at
titude was: Comrades. it's all right
for us to understand each other. but
you play in your own alley. Don't
ring my doorbell'
Referring to New Dealers " reports
Of better business, she asked: rs
man or business better off because
more taxes have been levied?"
The speaker was rushed of to a re-
ception at the swank Hamilton Club.