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Show WOMEN ASPIRE TO PARLIAMENT First Female Campaign in England Had Its Amusing Amus-ing Side. LONDON, Nov. 29. (Correspondence (Correspon-dence of The Associated Press) The campaigns of about fifteen women candidates for election to the House of Commons imparted a now and interesting in-teresting phase to the electioneering this month. Some of the women who were running for office under the now law which permits them representation representa-tion in the British parliament, were prominent In the old window-smashing days of the prewar suffrage campaign. cam-paign. One candidate announced that she seeks offics as a "quiet and modest lady." while another, the widow of an army officer announced as her platform plat-form a thorough and systematic boy1 cott of tho Germans. Foremost among the women candidates candi-dates was Cristobel Pankhurst whose aclvitles as a militant leader before the war gave her International prom- j inence. She was one of the support- , ers of Premier David Lloyd George, and ran on a platform "democratizing "democratiz-ing prosperity and the abolition of wealth so that there will be wealth enough for all." Mrs. Hope, widow of a British army colonel, as an independent, opposed Herbert Asquith, the former premier. She characterized Mr. Asquith as a "wash-out" whose record was "rotten" "rot-ten" and announced that she. stood for good jobs for soldiers and sailors and for the reconstruction of educar tion. Mrs. Charlotte Desjaard, who ran as labor candidate for Battorsea is a sister sis-ter of Field Marshal Viscount John French, Viceroy of Ireland. She was twice in prison for her suffrage activities, ac-tivities, before the wjtr. Many of the boys whom she mothered In .her first school clinic in England returned from the Avar in khaki to support her candidacy can-didacy which was based on the labor party's program with special stress on reforms affecting tho welfare of mothers moth-ers and children and tho economic, social so-cial and professional freedom of women. She believes in state care for children. Miss. Violet Markham. independent Liberal candidate for Nottingham was once a foremost anti -suffragist advocate. advo-cate. During the war she was a mem-: mem-: ber of the Central Committee for the Employment of Women. She promised support of the coalition government in carrying out the terms of peace as proposed by President Wilson in his Fourteen Points. She promised, if elected, to resign at the end of the year when the soldiers would be home. Mrs. Olive Strachey, one of the three women supported by the National Union of Women's Suffrage societies, fs pmintorl one of the best women or ators of the country. She ran as an Independent Liberal candidate for Chiswlck and supported Lloyd George's program. Miss Sylvia Pankhurst ran as an "out and out" socialist for the Hal-lara Hal-lara division of Sheffield, the only one of the women candidates to take that position. Another interesting figure was Miss .Marjory Fry. Quaker and a member mem-ber of one of the wealthy families of England. Mrs. How Martin, candidate in the Hendon division of Middlesex, enjoyed the support of Ellon Terry the actress act-ress nn |