Show L' L C By ELMO SCOTT WATSON WATSO ILL a woman be nominated nom nom- nominated for vice-president vice In 1928 1933 And If It she Is will be she be elected Impossible Improbable Its It's not such an Improbability Im tm probability as might appear ap appear pear at first glance Forty Forty For For- ty or fifty years ago the ti average American would A have said that we would never see a w woman man In to Inthe Inthe the halls of ot congress Yet Miss I Alice Allee Robertson of ot Oklahoma and Miss Jeanette Jennette Rankin of Montana proved pr v d otherwise other And when the Seventieth congress convenes In December four women women will be occupying ing seats In the house of representatives They Tuey are Mrs Mary Iary T. T Norton r of New Jersey Mrs ITs Florence Kahn of California Mrs Irs Edith Nourse lh lingers Hilgers gers of Massachusetts Massa Massachusetts Massa- Massa and Mrs tl'S Katherine Langley of If Kentucky Twenty nty years ago ao the 0 average would have ha regarded It as as ashl hl highly hl Ie that HuH the v voters of a an n sH state re would ever elect a woman gO governor Yet Vet out In the I Z x y t- t 4 E MRS FLORENCE ALLEN great open spaces of the West Nest where men are men and women are governors governors gov Jov- Mrs 1 Miriam 1 Ferguson of ot Texas and Mrs Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming proved that It wasn't so Improbable Improbable improbable Im Im- im- im probable after all So Its It's neither Impossible nor improbable Im im- Improbable probable that Mrs Irs American Citizen may aim even higher than the balls halls of ot congress or the executive offices of ot ofa ofa ota a statehouse and end we may yet see s-ee one of them presiding over the United States senate as president of the senate and und vice president of ot the United d States As a matter of fact the movement to bring that about already already already al al- ready Is under way Mrs W W. E. E Maulsby vice chairman of the Iowa Democratic women's organization has hns announced that an nn effort will be made madd to obtain the vice presidential nomination nomination nomination nomina nomina- tion for Mrs Woodrow Wilson widow of the war President And from Washington comes the word that the National Women's party Is already laying Its lines for a campaign to select a woman whose name will apY ap- ap Y jj e ey y r 4 f 4 f r y MRS BELVA ANN LOCKWOOD pear before either cither the Republican or Democratic conventions next year as us asa asa a u running mate for standard the bearer bear bear- er of either party Already several names have been suggested as possibilities One of them Is Mrs Florence 1 E. E Allen a Justice justice justice Jus jus- tice eI of the Ohio Supreme court who was defeated In a campaign for the senate last year Another Is Mrs Medill McCormick whose father Mark Marl Hanna henna of ot Ohio and whose husband husband husband hus hus- band Medill Mcdill McCormick of Illinois both occupied senate seats It Is considered considered considered con con- certain that Mrs McC McCormIck will be a candidate In the Illinois senatorial campaign If It Col Frank Smith Is denied his seat sent and a vacancy vacancy va va- cancy caney ensues es Still another Is Mrs t Mire e HIA Roosevelt evelt Ion Longworth wife of Nicholas Longworth speaker of the thenon Alice Allee has been one non tou louse p Po Princess of Washington's tons ton's striking personalities ever er lace her father Col Theodore Roo nOo plU e eiL entered the White House and there are away back In 1001 WOl those who say that sHe Is a n chip ofT the old block and und possesses such charm tact and und political sagacity as asto asto asto to make her a force worth reckoning with In politics Of course her availability availability avail vice presidential ability as a will be contingent upon the success success success suc suc- cess cess of Speaker Longworth's Presidential tint aspirations but It would be a strange quirk of fate If It political forS for for- S k v fy y M Mf f MRS MEDILL tune smiled smile 1 up upon n her and frowned upon her husband Although this is the first time in history Ills his tory that women have been suggested for the office om-ce of of vice president It Is not the first time that they have aspired to such high office For twice I In n our although history although tew lew Americans Amer leans IDa may remember the we fact we have had women candidates for President dent Th The Thu first time was 55 years ago when Mrs Victoria Woodhull Martin was the Equal Rights party candidate for the Presidency In 1872 when U U. S SJ Grant was the Republican nominee and find Horace Greeley was the Demo Demo- cratic In 1884 when James Jamea G. G Blaine was the Republican standard bearer and Grover GrOyer Cl Cleveland veland the Democratic the Equal Rights nights party again had a H ticket In the field and In that year Belva Ann Lockwood a lawyer awyer by profession and prominent In temperance temperance temper temper- ance peace and suffrage movements was Its candidate Again In 1888 1533 Mrs Lockwood ran against Benjamin Hara Hal Ear a 3 ti RS fry A N Y J y A MRS FLORENCE KAHN rison the Republican nominee and Cleveland the Democratic candidate Of course neither Mrs Martin nor Mrs Lockwood to to use the argot of the day day got got to first base with their candidacies but the former waged a spectacular campaign and was a strIkIng striking striking ing figure In her day which was vas long before the era of the new woman Unsuccessful Presidential Pres candidates usually slide back Into the oblivion of ot public forgetfulness But not so with Mrs Martin Three years ago the memory of her campaign was revived by the following Associated Press dispatch dis dis- dispatch patch from rom London England The rhe gift sitt to the Anglo American as association association association as- as of an ancient English manor house to be used as a hostel by American AmerIcan Amer Amer- ican lean pilgrims to Sulgrave e manor the home of George Washington's ancestors anceo- anceo tors iora brings out of a woman once known from one end of the United States to the tho other For the donor of the manor house is the venerable Mrs Victoria Woodhull Martin candidate for the Presidency of the United States In 1872 along with General Grant and an J Horace Greeley Mrs Martin then Mrs Woodhull was the tho nominee of the Equal flights Rl party That was walS tho the year President Coolidge 4 I n A a MARY T T. T NORTON was born John W W. i l avis was not born until the tho following year ear General Dawes was wai learning Sunday school texts and Mr was seventeen seventeen seven seven- teen years year old Famous for lor or her be uty not less Iu than for her radical views on all questions respecting womans woman's status In society Mrs Woodhull made a 0 spectacular fight In a n campaign which closed with the re-election re of General Gram Grant and Greeleys Greeley's death But she had demonstrated that a woman could run for President even though the women of the nation as a 0 whole were not to receive tho the franchise until nearly half halfa o a century later But Mrs Woodhull Martin has lived to see the suffrage fight won won not only by the women of her native America but by English women aa ns well and from Crom tho the retirement of her home at Norton Park Bredons Bredon's Norton up In Worcestershire at the age of eighty- eighty six she looks out upon a world which today cheerfully accepts for women the enlarged horizon for which she was fighting two generations ago Born In Ohio In 1838 she ahe was the widow of Dr Canning Woodhull when she made a speaking tour of England One of her audience In old St. St James Jamea hall was the late John Martin English banker an and philanthropist Their marriage followed and the woman woman woman wom wom- an who had startled the United States States' by running for the Presidency came to England to reside And early this thin year that memory was revived again by the foIl following A. A P. P dispatch from Brighton England Eng Eng- England land Mrs Victoria Woodhull Martin Martin Martin Mar Mar- tin the first firs woman candidate for the a 4 s N MRS WOODROW WILSON Presidency of the United States States States-In In 1872 and 1872 and long a fighter for equal suffrage suf suf- suffrage frage frase believes that twenty-five twenty Is plenty plenty plenty plen plen- ty young enough for men and women to obtain the franchise In 1872 Mrs Martin Marlin carried the banner banner banner ban ban- ner of equal suffrage In Maine and California California California Cal Cal- as candidate of the Equal Rights party and at eighty eighty- eight she II Is still Interested in promoting Ing the emancipation of women I want women to have the vote as soon as aa they are fit to use it Mrs Martin told a correspondent for the Associated Press but I do not believe in forced maturity Twenty five is young enough for tor persons of both sexes to exercise the franchise Mrs Martin was seated with her daughter Miss Virginia Woodhull in their apartment here when she re received received received re- re the he correspondent Time has not noi dimmed the eyes of this spirited woman woman woman wom wom- an who with her sister the late Lady Cook f formerly Tennessee Claflin was the first woman broker In New York and lectured and Weekly in support of equal suffrage and eugenics before they both came cameto cameto cameto to England The surprised Interviewer who expected expected expected ex ex- to find the western advocate of equal suffrage ready to defend the flapper vote as It is termed by op op- a q N MRS EDITH NOURSE ROGERS of the bill to give women the vote at the age of twenty twenty- one ono the same as ns men men Instead of thirty thirty thirty thir thir- ty asked Cut Dut what of yourself at nt twenty twenty- one I was making history wh when n I was twenty-one twenty Mrs Martin replied but butI I J was a wife when little more than achild a child My son was born when I was very young and I had an unusually advanced education at nt home My case was wan exceptional But Bui what bout about your daughter Mrs Martin was asked ed surely she Ibe was wan fit to vote at twenty one Certainly not Ot she replied Mother is right Miss Woodhull agreed with good humor I knew nothing when I was twenty-one twenty al although although although al- al though I was studious and had read a n great deal I question If even tho the modern modern mod mod- ern rn emancipated girl la Is a n sufficient Judge of character to discriminate between between between be be- tween political candidates e The fame of Mrs Bel Belva 3 Ann Lockwood Lock Lock- wood v docs does not rest upon her Presidential aspirations Although she was second In the Presidential race rae she sha was first In another field of activity that of being the first woman lawyer admitted to practice e before the Supreme Supreme Su Su- Su- Su preme court In order to obtain this privilege e she site had to get et a bill through congress permitting women to practice la law w and then she ahe worked for threw years to create a favorable sentiment toward womer pleading before the highest Judicial body of the land When her efforts were ended every everyN N y d s sc c x y 5 y MRS NELLIE TAYLOE ROSS court In the United States was open to her and never again was a woman lawyers lawyer's application denied because of her sex or because she was a married woman as in Mrs Lockwood's cl case se Mrs Lockwood was born In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York In 1830 1330 and a desire for an education edu edit cation became her ruling passion A At eighteen she eighteen she he was the bride of Uriah Uriab McNeil a young farmer and at the age of twenty-three twenty a widow with a baby daughter to support Still StIn determined determined deter deter- mined to secure an education she worked her way through Genesee college college col col- col lege and became principal of oC the Lockport Lockport Lock Lock- port schools and later of the McNeil I seminary at Oswego At the cl close se of I the Civil ll war she went to Washington to teach and to study law but an marriage this time to Dr Ezekle Ezekie Lockwood an army chaplain In 1868 Interfered with the progress of he career He died nine years later ant and she turned again to study She re Ie received degrees from Syracuse and th the National University Law school In ID Washington which gave her the equip equipment equipment ment meat to make the fight for admission x J i r z 5 S. S J 4 H MRS KATHERINE LANGLEY to practice before any court In the country She was one of th the early workers for equal rights for men and women and drafted and brought about the passage of a bill equalizing the pay of ot women In the government service with that of men inen for equal work But II it was perhaps her labor In th the Interest of world peace pence which brought her her greatest fame For 30 36 years she was a n members of ot the Universal Peace union and took part In the first filst Peace congress con conS gress In 1885 She compiled the peace treaties of the United States studied them and brought about the Introduction Introduction introduction tion of or the fir first t bill In congress for an International arbitration court Although AN Al- though she was sixty years of age ar at arthe arthe atthe the time of the Pence Peace congress In In London Loudon Lon Lou don In 1800 1890 she remained abroad to take a course of lectures at Oxford At the age of or two eighty she returned to Europe to carry a peace message to the women women of the world And In 1310 a year before her death she gave ve an address on the re-election re of ot Woodrow c s tai tair r Q v. v r 5 Y i MRS ALICE LONGWORTH Wilson because of his efforts In behalf be- be half of ot International peace and ond h he was widely used aa as literature |