Show mm AN 4 V IDE 4 SCOTT COTT WATSON ILL a woman bo noro nom for vice president in and it if shawls she 1 will ivill be she be elected impossible improbable its ire rot not such an improbability in ps as might appear at first glance forty or fifty years ago the average american would have sold said that we would never see eee ft 0 woman to in abe be hulls ails of coli congress gress yet ret was alice robertson of oklahoma and miss ilia jeanette rankin of montana Montan tr proved otherwise and when the seventieth congress co convenes binds in december four our women wui be occupying peats in ill the bouse of representatives tuey are mrs mary T norton of new jersey lira florence kohn kahn of california mrs lira edith nourse rogers of musso Chu etts and add mrs katherine catherine langley of Kei kentucky tucky twenty years ago the average Aini american rican would have reg aroid it ft as highly improbable that the oters od of a sovereign slate would ever fled elect a woman governor yet ou out 1 in the 1 1 10 11 r MRS FLORENCE ALLEN great open spaces of the west where men imen are men find and women are governors mrs miriam ferguson of texas and mrs nellie tayloe ross of wyoming proved that it wasat so improbable after all so its neither impossible ti nor r improbable that mrs american CI citizen may aim even higher than the halls balls of congress or the executive offices of a statehouse and we may yet let see one of them presiding over the united states senate as president of the senate and vice president of the united states As a matter of tact fact the movement to bring that about at already Is under way mrs TV E maulsby vice chairman of the iowa democratic organization has announced chatan that an effort will be bd made to obtain the vice presidential nomination for mrs woodrow wilson bilson yi lson widow of the war president and from washington comes the word that the national party la Is already laying its lines for a campaign to select a vidman woman whose name will ap MRS BELVA ANN LOCKWOOD pear before either the republican or democratic conventions consention g next year as a running mate for the tha standard bear er r of either party already several names dames have hare been suggested as possibilities one of them Is mrs mra florencea florence EL allen alien a jus jos flee of the ohio supreme court who was defeated in a campaign for the arate list last year another Is km mrs McConn lck whose father mark hanna of ohio and whose ills husband medill mccormick bof ot illinois both occupied senate bentz bents ith it is considered certain that mccormick McConn lck will be Is a candidate in abe abe illinois senatorial campaign campil gil if col prank frank denied his sent seat and a vacancy eilif still iu another othair ts Is lira alice longworth tong worth wife of bt i i alib nicholas longworth sp speaker e a ker of the ahi bouse princess Allce has aen been one of f personalities ner eyet since her father col celii j theodore roservelt noo Ros sevelL erelt entered the house aw way ai baa in 1001 1901 and there are 1 those hose who rho say that she Is a chip off theota ai block ci and possesses such each ch charm a r m i tad and us its to mike her a force worth bonn reckoning nith in of buirse course i her hei avail 1 f blahy BJ di a vice itce pres presidential poss dosal ability will willbo be i contingent upon the sue ono cew 01 speaker longworthy Long wortha presidential aspirations but it boull be a quirk of fate if poll political for ad 7 an fn V e MRS MEDILL kedit L lune mulled upon tier and frowned upon her hu although this la Is the first linit in history that women have been teo tor the office of vice president it Is nut not the first knib that they have aspired to such high office for in nur list ay ol I 1 hough lew americans arany i the lie fact we have had and candidates for I 1 ireal dent aba first time was 55 years ago when mra victoria woodhull martin was the equal rights nights party candidate for the presidency in 1872 when U S grant was the republican nominee and horace greeley was the he democratic in 1884 when ahmel 0 bialke was the republican standard bearer ben and brover cleveland the democratic the equal rights party again had a it ticket c ket in the field and in that year belva ann lockwood a lawyer by profession and prominent in temperance peace find and suffrage movements was its candidate again in 1888 mrs lockwood ran against benjamin bar X M I 1 w I 1 a ly BE t MRS FLORENCE KAHN rison the republican nominee and Cl cleveland oveland the democratic candidate ot of course neither mrs martin nor noi mrs lockwood to use use the argot of the day got to first baw base rith their candidacies candi dacies but the former willed a spectacular campaign and was a ing figure in her ber day which was waa long before the era of the new woman unsuccessful presidential candidates usually slide back into fald the oblivion of public forgetfulness forgetful nesa but bat not so BO with mrs martin three years ago the memory of her campaign was revived by the following associated press dispatch from london england the gift to the anglo american as of an ancient Igns libb manor house to be used sed as ai a hostel by american pi pilgrims g rime to sulgrave manor the home of george ancog con tars lora brings out of a woman once known from one end ot of the united states state to the other for the th donor of the fhaner manor house hour in I 1 the irb venerable mrs mr victoria woo woodhull ull marfan candidate for the Pre Preal dency dy of the united ites in 1871 1812 along alone with general grant and horace greeley mrs martin then mrs mra was wa the nominee of the equal rights patty party that wa the 0 year president coolidge k oiw 61 46 mm MARY many T NORTO Nl 1 l was waa born john johl WA W 4 aali avla will w not born until I 1 it the he year i a general D daic eo was wai learning sun sunday chool 1100 0 t text eszo and mr air LaPoll etie wa s even teen years year old 1 ramous for her beaty not leu less than 1 I tor for her radi radical I 1 views view a on all questions respecting bomann stat azatui a la in society doclot mrs woodhull wide mad a spectacular fight lo in sk a campaign which closed with the reelection election re of generia general grant and Ore eleya elers tragic death but abe ahe had demonstrated demo nitrated that a woman could r run u h for president ten even though tb the wom women of the nation as a a whole were riot not to receive the franchise until unlit nearly halt bilt a century later but mrs woodhull martin has baa lived to see the suffrage fight won not only by the women of her native america but by english women as ai well and from the retirement of 0 her home at norton park park bredina Bre dona doAs norton nonon up in worcestershire at the age of eighty six alx she bhe looks out upon a world which today cheerfully accepts accept for women the enlarged bodson tor for which ahe abe was wae fighting two generations generation ago domain ohio in 1813 1835 she he was wa the widow of or dr canning woodhull when she he made a speaking boyr tour of england one of heraud herand lenca lence la in old at 81 james hall was wae the late john martin english banker and philanthropist their tb air ir marriage followed and the worn wom an who had startled led the united states by running for the presidency cam came to england to reside and early thin bla year that memory was as revived again by the fol following lowin 9 A P dispatch from brighton england ura mrs victoria woodhull martin the orsi first woman candidate lor for the MRS WOODROW WILSON presidency of the united states in 1872 1812 and long a tighter fighter tor for equal u trago believes that twenty five Is plenty young enough for or men and women romen to obtain the franchise lie y in 1871 mn mm martin carried the bannor banner of equal cuff raga in maine and california as dental candidate of the equal party and at eighty eight she Is still interested in promoting the emancipation of women 1 I want women to 10 have the vote as a soon as they are fit to use it M mrs ro martin told a correspondent tor for the associated press but I 1 do not believe to la forced maturity twenty five I 1 la yount young enough for persons of bot both b sexes to exercise the lse mrs martin was seated with her daughter miss virginia woodhull in their apartment here when she received the correspondent time has nov not dimmed the eyes of this spirited woman who with her stator sister the late lady cook formerly tennessee Clail lu was the first woman brokering bro broker kerin in now new york and lectured and published Claf llna Week weekly lyAn in support of equal suffrage and eu eugenics before they bobb came to england the tha surprised interviewer who ex fectea to the western advocat ed sd of equal suffrage ready to defend the flapper vote rote to as it Is termed vermeil by op A mra EDITH NOURSE ROGERS ponente of the lh bill to give british women the vote at the age of twenty ono one the sains aaroe baroe as men instead of thirty asked but what of yourself youra elt at twenty oner jonir 1 I 1 was making history when I 1 was wae twenty one mrs martin replied b but I 1 was a wife when little more than a child my son eon was born when I 1 J was very young and I 1 had an unusually advanced education at home uy my case was exceptional but what your daughter ura mrs martin was asked surely she was wan fit at to vote at twenty one certainly not she replied mother li in right miss mien woodhull greed agreed with good humor 1 I knew nothing when I 1 was twenty one although alt t 1 WM studious and had bad read a great deal I 1 question it even ohp h modern emancipated girl to Is a sufficient judge of character to discriminate between political candidates the fame of mrs mra belva ann ADD lockwood does not rest upon her presidential aspirations although she was second to in the presidential race she I 1 ana first la in another field fieldor fiel dof of activity I 1 that of being the first woman lawyer admi admitted tied to practice before the court in order to 0 o obtain this i privilege she he had to get a bill through congre aa permitting women to practice law w mid and then she worked for three ahr ee eara t to create a favorable seli award W women pleading before th ill highest judicial body of the lana baill IV when lie 3 h her er if efforts forto were ended ejiri ever MRS NELLIE TAYLOE ROSS court to la the united states was open to her and never ag again ln was a lawyers application denied because ol of her ber sex or because she abe was a married woman ati as in mrs lockwoode Lock wooda woods case mrs lockwood was born in new york yori in 1830 and a desire for an edu cation bee meher ruling passion at eighteen she one was the bride of urial mcnell mcneil a young farmer fanner and at the age of twenty three a widow with a baby daughter to support still deter mined to secure an edu education catlon she worked her way through genesee col lege and became principal of the lock port schools and later of the mcnell mcneil seminary at oswego at the close of the civil war she went to washington to teach and to study law but another marriage this time to dr ezekiel lockwood an army amy chaplain in 1868 interfered with the progress of her ber career he died nine years later and she turned again to study she received degrees from syracuse and the national university law school in washington which gave her the equip ment to make the fight for admission k lk am A KATHERINE LANGLEY to practice before any court in the count country rT she was one of the early workers for equal rights for men and women and drafted and brought about the passage of a bill equalizing the pay of women in the government service with that of men for equal work but it was perhaps her ber labor in the interest of world peace which brought her her ber greatest fame for 30 80 years she was a ln members embers of the universal peace union and took part in the first peace congress in 1885 she compiled the peace treaties of the united states studied them and brought about the introduction of the first bill in congress for an international arbitration court although she was sixty years of age at the time of the peace congress in london in 1890 she remol remained ned abroad to take a course of lectures at oxford at the age of eighty two she returned to europe to carry a pence peace message it the women of the world and in 1916 a year before her death she gave ar ap address on the reelection election re of woodrow v Q MRS ALICE vilson because of his e er dart torti 6 in be hall half of international peace anabel and be bel addams add ess was widely used aasc as acpal ip Ilter literature attire |