Show A MAIN r IM nuba IL aar lma LE by ELMO SCOTT WATSON LL ILL a woman be nominated dominated for vice president in and it if she I 1 Is will be she be elected impossible improbable its not such an improbability as might appear at first glance forty or fifty years ago the average american would have said that we would never see a woman in file halls of congress yet tot bif miss alice Ro robertson ertson of oklahoma and miss lemette lenit ite rankin of montana proved and when the seventieth digress mi gress convenes in december four women will be occupying in the house of representatives tuey are mis ilis mary T norton of new jersey mrs florence kahn of california mrs edith bourso P rogers of massat massai hit etts and mrs Kli therine langley 4 if kentucky twenty years ap ago 0 the avera average american would ha have ve regarded it as highly improbable that the oters of a dereign me reign state would ever elect a woman n governor yet out in the A 14 T I 1 Q 81 fmay affia i Z Is FLORENCE ALLEN spaces of the west where wen men are men and women are governors mrs miriam ferguson of texas andars and mrs nellie tayloe ross of wyoming proved that it so lm im probable after all su so its its neither impossible nor lm im probable pro baile that mrs american citizen may aim bica even higher than the halls s ot of con congress kress or the executive offices of a sta and we alvey may yet see one of th atheni IT P residing presiding over the united states state 1 sen senate a ito as president of the senate band and vice vicci president of the united states As a matter of fact the me movement ernect to bring that that about alf ready ats s under tinder way mrs W I 1 E maulsby Mauls bj vice tice chairman of the iowa democratic democratic organization has a 11 noun d th that it 3 8 an n effort will be mad latap to oata aiji the vice 1 presidential nomination fori SIrs woodrow rov wilson willow widow of af the aawar president and from comes the word that the nationals Natio nall party is already laying up ftp lines for a campaign to selecta woman ose name will a api p brie THE 7 sim ackwood A publican tub lican or year as I 1 bear een of A r the mrs iler bus sj con u taula IF loiso arad TOE LOOK ON amick gibes you 11 rank PICKED UP AN eaby LQ a vai OV mrs lie of PD one cadore codore house re are hip aff such gal as koning adall dosal D western newspaper ability will be contingent upon the sue cess of speaker longworthy Long tini aspirations but it would be a strange quirk of fate if po lotical for W MRS MEDILL tune smiled upon her and frowned upon her husband although this Is the first time in history that women have been sugg suggested estea for the office of vice president it Is not the first time that they have aspired to such high bl h office for twice in our history lif story although althou gb lew few amer leans may remember the tact fact we liine hate had women candidates for president thi tha first time was 55 years ngo neo when mrs victoria woodhull mariln was the equal rights nights party candidate cand for the presidency in when U s grant was the republican nominee and norace horace creeley was the demo cratic in issa when jame 0 blaine was the republican standard hearer bearer and grover cleveland the democratic the equal rights party again had it ticket in the field beld and in that year belva ann ADD lockwood a 1 lawyer awyer by profession and prominent in temperance peace and suffrage s movements was its candidate again in IM mrs lockwood ran against benjamin her 41 MRS FLORENCE KAHN rison the republican nominee and cleveland the democratic candidate of course neither mrs martin nor mrs airs lockwood to use the argot of the day got to first base with their candidacies candi dacies but the former waged a spectacular campaign and was a striking in figure in her day which was long iong before the era of the new woman unsuccessful presidential candidates usually slide back into the oblivion of public forgetfulness forgett ulness but not so 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 association so of f an ancient english manor house to be used as a hostel by american ican pilgrims to sulgrave manor the home of 0 george ancee tors lors brings out of a woman once known from one end of the united states to the other for the donor of the manor house la Is the venerable airs victoria woodhull Wood null martin candidate tor for the presidency of the united states in 1872 along with general grant and horace greeley Gr celey mrs martin then mrs airs woodhull Wood bull was the nominee of the equal nights party that was the ilia year president coolidge aak e I 1 MRS MARY was wan born john W lails was not born until the following year general dawe dajcs 9 was learning sunday school chool texts text and mr was seventeen years old famous tor for her beauty not less than tor for her radical views view on all questions respecting womans comans in society go clety 1 mrs I 1 re woodhull made a spectacular fight in a campaign which closed w with I 1 th the r election reelection re e of general grant gram and greeleys greelegs Gree leys tragic death but the she had demonstrated that a woman could run tor for president even though the women of the nation as a whole were not to receive the franchise until nearly halt a century later but mrs airs woodhull martin has lived to see ace the suffrage BUff rane fight won not only hy by the women of her native america but by english women as well and from the retirement of her home at norton park Br edons norton nonon up in worcestershire at the nee age of eighty six she ohe looks looka out upon a world which today cheerfully accepts for or women the enlarged horizon tor for which she ehe wine was lighting dentine two generations ago born in ohio in she aih was the widow of dr canning woodhull when she made a speaking tour of england one of her audience in old st james hall was the late john martin english banker and philanthropist their marriage fol followed lovied and the woman who had startled the united states by running for or the presidency came caine to england to reside and early curly tills year tb alit t memory was revved again liy fly abe following A P dispatch from brighton england mrs victoria clanin woodhull hull martin the first woman candidate for or the 1 X MRS WOODROW WILSON presidency of the united states in 1872 1972 and long a tighter fighter for or equal suffrage believes that twenty five Is plenty young enough for men and women to obtain the franchise in 1872 mrs martin carried the banner of equal in maine and california its as presidential dental candidate of the equal lual rights 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 soon as a they are lit fit to use it mrs martin told a correspondent tor for the associated press but I 1 do not believe in forced maturity twenty five Is young enough for persons of 0 1 both ba III sexes to exercise the franchise mrs martin was seated with her daughter miss virginia woodhull in their apartment here when rhe die received the correspondent time has nos no dimmed the eyes of 0 this spirited woman who with her sister the late lady cook formerly tennessee claflin was the ahe first woman broker in new york and lectured and published Cla clakins weekly in support of equal suffrage and eugenics before they both came to england cane the surprised interviewer who e expected to find the western advocate of equal suffrage ready to defend the flapper vote as it Is termed by op N I 1 MRS EDITH NOURSE ROGERS of the iho bill to give biulah women the vote at the age of 0 twenty one the he same as men instead of thirty asked but what of yourself at twenty one 7 ei 1 I was making history when I 1 was twenty one mrs martin replied but I 1 wa was a wife when little more than a child my son was waa born when I 1 was very young and I 1 had an unusually advanced education at home my case was exceptional but bui what about your daugh daughter daughtery terr mrs martin was waa asked surely she was fit to vote at twenty one certainly not she replied mother Is right miss alias woodhull agreed with good humor 1 I knew nothing when I 1 was twenty one although I 1 was studious rind and had read a great deal ea I 1 question it if oven even the modern emancipated girl to Is a sum clent ludge judge of character to discriminate be tween political candidates I 1 the fame of mrs lira beava ann lockwood does not rest arpon tier her residential aspirations although she ehe was second in ili the presidential race bae was first in another beld of that of being the first woman lawyer admitted to practice tice before the supreme courts court in order to obtain tills h ad to seta geta bill through co congress permitting women to pric practice tire law and then she worked for threz hires years to create a favorable sentiment toward womer women pleading before the highest judicial body of the land when her efforts were ended every A MRS NELLIE TAYLOE ROSS court lu in the united states was open to her and never again was a woman lawyers application denied because of her sex or because she was a married woman as in mrs Locki roods case mrs lockwood was born in new york fork in 1830 and a desire for an education became her ruling passion at cf eighteen lateen she was the bride of uriah uriab mcneill mcneil a young farmer and at the age of twenty three a widow with a baby daughter to support still determined to secure nn an education site she worked her way through genesee college and became principal of the lockport schools and later of the Alc mcnell lNell 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 chaplain in interfered with the progress of her career lie ile 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 i r ilk a T MRS KATHERINE LANGLEY to practice before any court in the country she was one of the early workers tor for equal rights for men and women fill and drafted and brought about the passage of a bill equalizing the pay ol of women in the government bernice sen ice with that of men for equal work but li Is was perhaps her lubor labor in the interest In teresi of world peace which brought her ler her greatest fame for SO years slie she was a members of the Un hersal pence union and took part in the first peace con gress in she compiled I 1 the he peace treaties of the united states studied them and brought about the introduction of the first bill in congress for an international arbitration court at al though she was sixty years of uge age at the time of the file peace congress la in lon don to in 1800 1890 she remained abroad to take a course of lectures at oxford at the at age ge of eighty two she returned to europe to carry a peace mess lige to the women of the world and in 1910 1016 a year before her death site she gave gaie an address on the reelection election re of woodrow woodro 0 ail A MRS ALICE LONGWORTH wilson because of his efforts in be half of international pence and beg address was widely used as campaign cam literature |