Evening star., 1953-08-27
The Political Min
Republicans to Seek
Help Of Women Voters
Purty Remembers Whot
The Ladies' Did for 1t in 81
By Gould Lincoln

The opening gun of the Republican
campaign to elect an Eisenhower 84th
Congress will put the emphasis on the
woman vote. Perhaps the G. o. P.
managers are thinking of the great
turnout of women voters in 1852, who
helped to submerge the Democratic can
didate. Adlai Stevenson. in the presi-
Dental race. In any event, the Republi-
cans are staging four important wom-
ems meetings. beginning with Far
West Republican women's conference
in Yellowstone National Park, Septem-
ber II and IL. The second conference
will be the Midwest Republican women.
in Chicago September 18 and 19. A
third conference will be held at At
lantic City, October l and 2. and q
fourth in Boston, october 8 and 8.
The Chicago meeting for the Mid
west Republican women is coming Just
two days after the big Democratic gath
ering in the Windy City-when the
Democratic National Committee and
other party leaders are putting on a
drive to stir up interest in electing
Democratic Congress next year
with Adlai Stevenson as the principal
drawing card.
Under Miss Adkins.
The Republican conference is under
the direction OF Bertha Adkins, assist
ant to the chairman of the Republi-
can National Committee and in charge
OF the women'S activities for the COM
mlttee. She expects to have approxi-
mately 1900 Republican women work.
erS from l8 Midwest States ut the
gathering. Not only will the women
have big-name speakers to address
them, but they will have experts in
the technique OF political eampaiRninK
on hand to discuss the practical side
OF electioneering.
Among the speakers at the Chicago
meeting will be Postmaster General
Summerheld, former chairman Of the
Republican National COMMITTEES: the
present national chairman, Leonard
Hall OF New York; Senator Dirksen Of
Illinois, chairman Of the Republican
Senatorial Committee: Gov. stratton
OF Illinois and Gov Kohler Of Wiscon.
sin, and two Republican Congress-
women. Mrs. Church Of Illinois and
Miss Thompson of Michigan. Miss
Marian Smith Of Little Rock, Ark, will
be another speaker, particularly for the
Republican women of the South.
President Eisenhower, in his appoint
ments to Office, has given women rec.
ognition. 1t has been emphasized, how
ever, that in all his appointments of
women to high Office he has been par
ticularly concerned with their uualifi-
cations for the work. The late President
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first
Chief Executive to appoint a woman
to cabinet post, Miss Frances Perkins,
Secretary of Labor. Miss Perkins had
been welfare worker in New York.
Gen. Eisenhower has placed Mrs. Oveta
Culp Hobby Of Texas in his cabinet as
head OF the newly established Depart
ment OF Health, Education and Well
fare, which seems a more fitting ap-
pointment. Gen. Eisenhower's choice
for Secretary of Labor was a labor
leader.
Hard Fight Seen.
1t is well understood that the coming
congressional campaign will be hard
fought. The Democrats look back with
some degree of pleasure to the 1852
election because their losses in the
House and Senate were mighty slim in
contrast to the fact they lost all but
nine of the 48 States in the presidential
election.
The job the Republicans are now
undertaking is to get the women of
the country as much interested in
going to the polls In the elections next
year as they were when Eisenhower
himself was a candidate. The vote in
the off-year elections-those for Con-
gress and for Governor and State Offices
generally-has invariably fallen of in
large measure.
The people have not given as much
attention to the congressional fracases.
although, as in the case Of the 1854
elections. they frequently are Of great
Importance.