Show I II I II I EDITORIALS BYI BYTHE BY BYTHE I THE PEOPLE Hundreds of letters are ore received by Hit department eo so o that it U is obviously impossible to answer all of thorn thom immediately In many oases cases there thoro must bo be a certain amount of unavoidable delay delsy SILK HOSE MAGIC FAILS Editor Where here is the silk million million- dollar ollar Hughes special l Where Is the magic power of ot tho womans woman's party part organizers Where oh where are tho the women voters oters tagged for delivery by the Womans Woman's party These questions are naturally askea as the returns prove that V 10 1 owr ow Wilson has again been chosen to lead the nation In every suffrage state except Illinois Inva Invaded NI by Womans Woman's party organizers and nd the silk stocking eel Hughes special women went vent to the polls pon an and in good round majorities registered their apProval approval approval ap ap- ap- ap of ot Woodrow Wilson and the Democratic party part and by their votes otes rebuked the invaders and their methods Wherever the luxurious Hughes special rolled Its Hs aristocratic way the tho women voters assembled listened laughed and arni went away with their j I minds made up to vote for Wilson To be sure said one Wilson campaigner campaigner campaigner cam cam- I who followed in the wake of oC the Hughes special it was most kind of ot the luxurious East to send out swimming teachers to instruct the voting women of ot the wild wid and woolly West Vest to swim in political waters who themselves had never been near the water Everywhere the women went to the stations to see the golden special everywhere they gave a are re respectful respectful re- re hearing and everywhere e they so deeply deep resented the visitors and the visit that they rolled up ringing majorities for Wilson I If It the society specialists of ot the Hughes special and the stalwart college college col col- col- col lege maids of ot the Womans Woman's party had known the first letter in the political alphabet they would have known that they could not talk down to Western Vestern women voters and succeed any more than the they could teach a duck to swim Both silk stockings and college de degrees degrees degrees de- de I grees reckoned without their host They talked down to the Western estern women I voters They bossed and ordered and commanded and nd when counsel was to tobe tobe tobe be taken they slammed the door in the face of ot the women en with the ballot Not for forn a a moment as they rolled through the country In the special I financed b by the Harrl- Harrl mans Guggenheims or 91 harangued from froman an automobile on the street corner did they give 01 the Ve Western tern woman voter credit for fol intelligence or common sense or memory That the Western woman voter was richly endowed with Intelligence common cornmon com corn man mon sense sense and memory has been proved by the election returns FRANCIS WAYNE |