| Show Mark Hanna Han ha s 's Daughter ugh ter May Become Governor of Illinois Illin is Mrs Medill McCormcik Hopes to Defeat Len Small in Race If N ec- ec essary By RODNEY BODNEV DUTCHER NEA TA Service Writer Copyright 1927 1921 NEA Service Inc WASHINGTON The WASHINGTON The daughter of the most skillful manipulator this country ever e saw saw saw- saw Mark Mark tark Hanna will Hanna-will will probably be a n candidate for govern govern- governor or of the state te of ot Illinois at nt the next Republican primary This woman Is Js Mrs Medill mick inick wIdow of the former senator from Illinois and known to Republican Republican Republican lican party leaders as ns the best wo wo- woman woman wo- wo woman man politician In the nation Seated on the veranda of her home In Georgetown Geo Mrs McCormick told me of her plans regarding Illinois Illinois' next gubernatorial campaign While she has not definitely promised to torun torun run she made It plain that If it she docs does all other candidates had hOod best be t I prepare for the scrap of their lives It is far too early carly to prophesy she said Great Grent pressure Is Js being brought on me to run Im I'm not pre pro prepared prepared pared to say that I will But I can conceive of or an emer emer- emergency emergency gency In which I would And then Mrs McCormick disclosed that If J she docs does run it will not be primarily to get the office omee for herself put but rather to take It away awny from that talented vote getter Governor Len Small The daughter of Mark lIanna Hanna the president-maker president Is Js determined that Small will never win another term In the governors governor's mansion at ot Springfield HER IIER CONDITIONS S Suppose Small is a candidate to succeed himself as we assume she went on Suppose Attorney General Carlstrom who ran for attorney gen gen geM general eral oral us os Smalls Small's fair haired d boy four years ears ago with a a campaign promise to o cancel the thc suits against Small but who now claims to be anti Small hould should be offered as the thc Small anti-Small candidate I I 1 doubt whether Carlstrom's can- can would entirely satisfy the an- an antI l tI m ll Whatever might be said of my candidacy It Jt could not be said that I Iam Iam Ian am an not per cent anti Small Small will have htwe his organization behInd him Carlstrom may get an or organization or- or In Cook county county but but I may get a majority of or the votes otes In making this tentative prediction Mrs Irs McCormIck Is speaking from the viewpoint of or the experienced practical politician She knows that very ery strange things do happen In Illinois politics poll ties SHOULD GET MANY MASY VOTES To begin with she has a n brilliant record of or her Iser own and Is widely known The Thc mantles of or her father and her late husband would fall on her shoulders Many Democratic wo wo- women women men probably would vote ote for her In Inthe inthe the he Republican primary Labor should be e sympathetic for Mark Hanna lianna was friendly to labor and Mrs McCormick as an active member of or the women's trade rade union league has vigorously yi I Jj S Sf Y f i. i A 1 i I S Si S SI I S. i S iw MRS ims MEDILL McCORMICK UCK supported child labor and other labor legislation legisla tion The The farmers might help too for not even cn Lowden is more of or a dirt farmer armer than Mrs McCormick who runs uns her own 11 acre 2000 farm sells hogs and ond steers markets 1400 quarts of or milk dally daily and is Js an active director director tor or of or the tion lion In addition to these elements there here Is a large floating Small anti-Small vote ote that probably would go her way On top of this Mrs McCormick would get strong newspaper support ir U If I do run russ Ill I'll have the short short- shortest shortest shortest est platform on record she added She refused however to say just what it t would be Mrs Irs McCormick's political career began besan before woman suffrage became a fact When the suffrage amend amend- amendment amendment amendment ment went Into effect she became chairman of or the Republican women's executive exec the committee working with the Republican national committee and organizing women voters throughout the country countryWomen countryWomen Women will increase in public office very Cry slowly 11 she says They are not generally gC Interested In that They are arc more Interested In educating educating ing themselves politically WOMAN IAN PRESIDENT NO XO Mrs McCormick laughs at the sug sug- suggestion suggestion suggestion of or certain ln advanced femin femin- feminists feminIsts isis that either cither she or Mrs Alice Roosevelt Longworth might be bc a presidential candidate next year I dont don't expect to live to see the time when a n woman can be a candi candi- candidate candidate date dale for br the presidency she says sas Women have a II long way to go In politics polities It is one of or the most dim dim- difficult difficult cult occupations No Ill I'll not tell teU you what Id I'd do doir If ir I were president because Im I'm no not going to be president Lets be serious |
