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Show I Will Fine Clothes I Draw Women s Vote? Senator Atlee Pomerene May Float Into Presidency Presi-dency on Billowy Promises of Silks and Satins at Bargain Rates In.v CAROLYN VANCE spti-ial Correspondent of nic Stand-urd-Ilxnmincr (Copyright, 1922 by Tho Standard-Examiner Standard-Examiner WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. Will the women of 1 1n- country elect a man to t lie presidency in ic24 wiio promises 4r" to moke tin ir clothes cost ono billion dollr.rs a year loss? The Democrats think it la quite possible but the Republicans Re-publicans do not believe they will allow themselves to be fooled The man. It Is hinted, who Is to do the promising, standing upon a plat-lonn plat-lonn of line feat hers for fine birds, is Atlec Pomerene. To become a candidate can-didate for the presidency in 192 4, he must be re-elected to the senate i" the present campaign In his efforts to do this, he Is appealing to tb- bar-jgaln bar-jgaln Instinct In women, telling them that the repeal of the "outrageous" l i'oi dnes -.Mi i umber tariff lay will enable en-able them to hove more und pretttoi clothes for less money Which may explain why the uttentlon of women Is so fiercely fOCUSBOd on the OblQ campaign. cam-paign. It la a preliminary tUSSel, the x woiii. n political leaders bclievr for the presidency In 1924 o P. AIiARMED Mrs. I Un let Taylor Upton. the Republican Re-publican leader, has barkened tO the I danger to her cause. She has rushed i out to Ohio, calling upon women not ito allow themselves to be hoodwinked hoodwink-ed Into thinking that all they need to do lu order to trail around in splffy fineries forever after. Is to vote fori (Senator Pomerene, sin' w ill Bp nd the next ten days In Ohio desperately determined de-termined to elap the pr.--..li-;it i.i i bee in the Pomerene bonnet Into u boc , heaven. She sounds anew the slogan. "Stand by the president" M Pa Emily iN'cwell Blair, the Democratic leader. !ls now out In the president's home 'state also. She Is Just completing an extensive HI ispeaking campaign In behalf of Pom-"The Pom-"The women of the country will lapend one billion dollars more this ; coming year lor their clothes, from I , )ac to hair nets under the Fordncy-McCumbcr Fordncy-McCumbcr tariff law than they would i uf the Underwood-Simmons law had I remained on tho statute lnle- " BILLOWY PROMIS1 S This statement b Senator Pomer ne IB some of his campaign speeches is expected to make such a profound Impression Im-pression on women that Its lnflU( nee will extend into 192-1 The theory Is ' that clothes may not make a man. but I they make a president. If Pomereno should succeed in his ultimate ambition, ambi-tion, it would be the first time a man has floated Into the presidency on billowy bil-lowy promises to present women with ucads and slathers of silks and satlna Tho National Women's party has also become mixed up in the hectic ' di. campaign. The Democratic members 'i the party have complained complain-ed that Alice Paul was unfair because she wrote a letter of endorsement for Representative Fess who is opposing Pomerette nnd did not give a similar I on to the latter. Meantime, like small boys whistling to keep up their courage In the dark, po Itldans make u raucous racket telling tell-ing Whj thSS believe that women are really Dot going to upset things so badly bad-ly November 7. BRAVADO FADES This bravado Is typical of politicians tin country over as the portentious eevi ath comes n arer it was clearly exhibited at the luncheon given during the past week In Baltimore by tho I Marv tnd Women's federation. The Republican stale ticket wr.s invited in-vited Arid It came, to the last man, ! not with bells on, perhaps, but with ' bUttonnlera The poalos on the lapel 1 were profoundly symbolic of the Change that had come over the pol-'itlcal pol-'itlcal world. The candidates trh l to uppoar nonchalant before the 300 pair of more or less friendly feminine eyes, but they did not succeed very well. Some of the ladles did their best to oalrrj the men. but somehow, their agitated agi-tated feathers refused to lie down They were told then that the women were not really desirous of a "women's bloc" in congress, that It probably would be years and years before there would be any women ut all In the senate sen-ate und that It would bo a long, lone, time before a third of the house was feminine. If ever. WILLING IX) SER E The mistress of ceremonies. Miss Cvaco Spofford disclaimed any hlch living political ambitions on the part of women. She says women are very humble in their desires to serve They are only anxious to help men on to tho heights, wanting neither the plumes nor the plaudit of politics. In their humbleness, cho said, they are very much like the young man who aspired to the life of the stage. He put an advertisement In the paper reading as tollows: "Wanted. Small part in a play, oither as a dead body or as shouts outside." |