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Show H Maine Women Near I Fierce Party Fight Feminine Forces of Two Major Parties Striving Passionately for Best Showing in Significant Balloting By CAROLYN' VANCE Special to The Stanrinrd-F,xnmlnr-r. (Copyright. 1922, by The Standard-Exnminor Standard-Exnminor ) Washington Aug . 2J. A fierce struggle Impends in Maine between the opposing: feminine forces of the two major parties Both Democrat find publican women are passionately striving to" make the better showing In that significant of ballots, the early ear-ly Maine election of September 11. Maine at the moment Is the theater for the warring feminine political ' forces cf the nation as well as for the clashing contingents within the state. j Mrs Emily Newell Hlnlr, the Democratic Demo-cratic leader. Is In the field. Mrs. Hartiet Taylor I'pton plans to leave "Washington headquarters if the Republican Re-publican part) very shortly for Maine. I I Meanwhile she is keeping her long! i distance feminine Intuition at work.1 enabling her to advlSe her lieutenants s : tady there. Mrs, Maud Wood Park.1 ij! national president of thi league of Women Voters, plans to be In Mai lie i next'weok to defend the direct primary system that Is up for repeal In a ref- REAL TEST OP STRENGTH. For the first time there will be a real test of strength between Republican Republi-can and Democratic women. Two years aso when the Republican landslide land-slide In Maine helped the seven million mil-lion majority returned throughout the country for Harding there hail been no time to organize the women of either party between the enfranchisement of the sex and the presidential elections. Since that time parties have been coutlng about shooing women Into their respective bailiwicks The ques tion Is. which party has shooe, the greatest number of 'cm Into camp, and also are they going to remain 1 ishooed. Only the outcome of Sep- i-j tembcr 11 will tell. The result, in Its larger aspects will indicate to the nation which party Is making th greater appeal to women. i1 For many months women of both pnrtles have been at work preparing for the fateful September 11 which Is eo highly portentous an event for the ' rest of the country. Mrs. Betsy Ed wards, an oragnlzer for the Republican Repub-lican party of nntlon-wide experience has been in Maine sfnee June. With f a troop of men and women she has been canvassing the state. All of the f county fairs have been visited and th. untlring and eloquent Betsy made an ' unprecedented number of "turns." a day, the crowds all hungry she I alma for Knowledge of Republican doctrines FREE CAMPAIGN DINNERS, jji One of the very finest of oratrizes j:' K.i.s sent Into the state by Senatorj J, McdlU McCormlck. the chairman of the Republican speakers' committee. !Sli.- is Mrs Mary Hlght of Chicago Senator MoCormick believes her to be a star when It comes to Juggling campaign argument: and he plans to M'lid her Into every state where a critical crit-ical situation Impends Involving the women She spokS first In Maine at the Republican field day. opening th" campaign at Island Pari: on the shores of sparkling little Lake Cob-bosconte Cob-bosconte The celebration took the form of a bean bake, and millions Of beaits were consumed by thousands of persons, many kegs of pickles being especially provided for the Maine flappers. flap-pers. The Democrat rally and opening celebration cel-ebration took tho form of a shore dinner served to the Democratic hosts ol Maine at Oakland Park, near Rockland. Rock-land. Miss Antoinette Punk, nationally national-ly known Democratic women worker, spoke PUZZLING ARGT BfENTS Mrs. Emily Newell Bluir spoke at another rally in Augusta this Week on the tariff. She warned the Maine women thai their whole day would ho ruined when tho pending tariff bill DSCOmes law. p rum ;ne i.me un'i are waked UP bv an alarm clock on 'which tho duty has been raised b per cent until on retiring they don a inlghtle upon which the du;y is also Iralscd "fifteen styen" per cent, there will be nothing but financial worry she touches In heiween the alarm clock ami the nightie will have had !he duty 'raised on It. I Then, of course, the Republican women wo-men come along and patiently explain 'to tho Maine women that the tariffs are on th" Import prices and not upon Ithe selling prices here In America 'And when both of them get through the Maine women will be t-o muddled they will probably decide to vole for the best looking man and let it go at that DEFENDING PRIMARY. Mrs. Maud Wood Park of the League of Women Voters Is going to Ma no to defend the direct primary law. The women ur- defending the primary pri-mary systems. Two arguments uro used by the proponents of the convention con-vention system They eay that In Missouri Mis-souri the Democrats were really defeated de-feated In their own primaries because a lot of Republicans voted In the wide open primaries for James A Reed for senator, securing his nomination. They also point out to the large amounts of money spent In the Plmhot campaign for the gubernatorial nomination In Pennsylvania. Though the women admit ad-mit that these are things that should be remedied they are not willing to abandon the direct primary system of Voting but realize that it needs ."ome sn f eguards. |