Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-01 | Page 6 | Woman for Parliament

election, succeed her husband in the commons. The new viscount, as a result re-sult of the death of his father, is transferred trans-ferred to the house of lords, where he will be promptly submerged. In the order cf precedence in British nobility a viscount is of small consequence. Lord Astor would have done better in the commons, and doubtless he would have remained there but for the bar erected long ago by the commons that no peer shall have a seat among them. The Plymouth election will take place about the mid.i'.o of next month. The progress of this Aiuerican-born woman ia politics in le one-time most conservative con-servative country, politically, in the world will be watched with interest on th's side of the waters. woman for parliament. That times have changed in Great Britain is strikingly illustrated by the announcement that the Viscountess Astor, As-tor, the American-born wife of the new Lord Astor, has accepted the Conservative Conserva-tive nomination for election to the house of commons for tho constituency of Plymouth. A few years ago such an announcement would havo been unthinkable. un-thinkable. Lady Astor 's acceptance makes the prospect excellent that the first women to sit in the English parliament par-liament will be a native of the United States, since Plymouth is regarded as a Rafc Unionist seat. The viscountess will be opposed by both labor and Liberal candidates, but there is a suggestion that the opposition opposi-tion will combine their ticket in order to give the woman candidate a close race. The viscountess, who is a daughter-in-law of the late Viscount William I Waldorf Astor, will, in evdnt of hei