Evening star., 1940-10-20
Many Women Seek
Seats in Congress-;
Miss Rankin in Race
Prohibition Party Leeds
Field Of 30 Would-Be
Feminine luwmokers

With Miss Jeannette Rankin, the
first woman elected TO Congress, out
to recapture her seat after 70 years.
women throughout the country are
intensifying their windup campaigns
to help run the State and national
Government.
This election finds women cam
paigning under various banners
Republican. Democratic, Communist.
Prohibitionist. Socialist, Social-La-
borite and even a slogan Of Free
Beauty Clinics"
The Prohibitionist party with
eight women leads the field Of 30
would-be feminine lawmakers in
Congress.
The only two women-Mrs. Mary
Ellen Dooner Of New Jersey and
Mrs. Alice Burke Of Virginia-run-
rfng for the Senate are Communists.
md that party has four women
3eeking election to the House.
Offers New Vote Lure.
THE Democrats have seven women
candidates, the Republicans six, the
Socialists one, the Social-LaboriteS
one, and lastly there is Mrs. Frances
3omners, who wants to represent
the eighth district in New Jersey by
identifying the feminine electorate
Tree Of charge.
OF the 10 women in Congress-an
sll-time record-Senator Hattie W..
Caraway, Democrat of Arkansas,
the only woman Senator, is not up
for reelection, and Representative
Margaret Smith, Republican, OF
Maine was recently reelected. the
drst woman member OF the coming
Seventy-seventh Congress.
Three veteran Congresswomen
Mrs. Caroline ODay, Democrat, of
New York; Mrs. Mary T. Norton,
Democrat, of New Jersey, and Mrs.
Edith Nourse Rogers, Republican. OF
Massachusetts, together with Miss
Jessie Sumner, Republican, of Hi
nois, finishing her first term. and
Mrs. Frances Bolton, Republican, OF
Ohio, elected this year to her late
husbands place, are out for re-
election
The white ribbon of prohibition is
being carried by the following In
their race for the House:
Mrs. Lena Duell Vincent in Illi-
nois. Mrs. Esther H. Elfreth, Mrs.
Emily r. G. Klein, Miss Margaret
Cameron Lowe and Mrs. Stella
Richardson in New Jersey, Martha
A. Morrison and Lizzie Varvil IN
Oklahoma, and Helen P. Nylen in
Massachusetts,.
Jersey Women Like Politics.
New Jersey has the most women
who want to give Congress helping
hand. Eleven are campaigning for
the House-four Prohibitionists, two
Democrats, two Communists, one
Socialist, one Social-Laborite and
one beautification-for-nothing. No
Republicans.
Mrs. Norton, who heads the House
Labor Committee, has as her Demo-
cratic colleague on the ballot Miss
Mary C. Duffy o. the 11th district.
Among those opposing Miss Duffy
Is Miss Mamie Penn, Communist.
The other Communist is Mrs. Rose
Risk of the 18th district.
Competitors of Mrs. Risk include
Mrs. Rubye Smith, Socialist. The
10th district has Mrs. Mildred Clark
Bopp. Social-Laborite, as a candl-
date.
Miss Rankin, who was defeated
for the Senate in 1918 after one
term in the House-and who voted
against the United States entrance
into the World Warts campaign
ing on the Republican ticket IN
Montana.
The other two Republican hope
fuls include Miss Mary H. Donlon
of New York, candidate for Repre-
sentative-a Large. and Mrs. John
e. Messervey of South Carolina.
Mrs. Honeyman Runs Again.
Mrs. Nan Wood Honeyman OF
Oregon, a member OF the 18th Con-
gress. has the yen again. She is
candidate on the Democratic ticket.
Other Democrats are Mrs. Zoe S.
Nabers of Iowa, Mrs. Flora D. john
son Of the 35th district, New York
and Mrs. E. Adele Scott Saul, the
9Th district, Pennsylvania.
Emma Tenayuca. Communist
leader in San Antonio, Tex, is out
to defeat Representative Paul Kill
day, Democrat, Of Texas, who beat
Maury Maverick a couple OF years
ago, Mr.. Maverick, as Mayor OF
San Antonio, became a storm CEN
ter later when. although opposing
Communism, he upheld Emma
Tenayuca's right to call Com
munist meeting.
The fourth Communist, Mrs. Ella
Bloor Omholt, is campaigning IN
the second district in Pennsylvania.
One Communist, one Socialist
and one Independent seek COVER
norships. They are Mrs. Ida A.
Beloff. Socialist. in Kansas, who ran
III 1888; Mrs. Elba Chase Nelson,
Communist, in New Hampshire, and
Mrs. Ada Williams Quinn, 1nde-
pendent, in Utah.
Only Two Women Governors.
Since women gained the vote 20
wears ago only two women have
served as head of q State. Mrs.
Miriam A. Ferguson was Governor
of Texas from 1925 to 1927 and was
reelected in 1882. Mrs. Nellie Tay-
loe Ross was elected Governor Of
wyoming to fill the unexpired term
of her husband. ending January.
1927. Mrs. Ross was later the first
woman director of the mint.
Women are competing, too. in
campaigns for State executive
offices.
Fourteen are running for Secre-
tary of State. In two States-New
Mexico and South Dakota-the only
contestants for that office are
women.
Mrs. Jessie Gonzales, Democrat.
and Mrs. M. M. Torres. Republican,
leave the decision to the New Mexico