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Roses And Politics

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Day
5
Month
October
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Work Being Done - Goud Speakers, Good Literatura and Good Sentiment for the Masseg - Woinan in Politica Seems a Succesg Airead y. A sunny room with a big bay window from which one looks out over towers and spires; the pink roses on the walls half hidden by gracefully draped flags and sitken bannera displaying the faces of the Republican candidates for president and vice president; palms and violets before cabinet photographs of Dudleyand Allison; a crucifix twined with the stars and stripes; a worn Bible and a tin plate card receiver on the desk littered with pamphlets, letters and newspaper clippings. Such is the extraordinary jumble of roligious and political features at the headquarters of the Woman's Republican Association of the United States. Ribbons and Roses in Politics. Ribbons and roses in politics at lastl 3ere we have them. Ribbons tied in he dainty rattan chairs and fluttering ;n roseate knots on the soft, white gown of Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, president of the issociation. Roses on the walls, on the iables and mantel and on the breast of ïhis gentle wornan, whose face glows with the zeal of the Puntan and from whose honest gray eyes looka the spirit of Bunker Hill. For Mrs. Foster is both a zealot and a fighter. She is of the stuff of which martyrs are made, combined with a goodly proportion of the old Adam. "College Boys and Woraen." It pleases the Democratie newspapers these daj-s to refer contemptuously to the re-enf orcements of "college boys and women," which Republicans are welcoming to their ranks. Well, college boys have votes, and women can make ballots if they can't wield them. What is the Woman's Republican association doing? lalking, writing, agitating and publishing pamphlets containinggood, sound Republican doctrines; trying to unite the social and educational influence of Republican women and to enlighten "the shopping women on the McKinley bill," for the latter have been repeatedly inforined by the Democratie press that Mr. McKinley is not only responsible for the awful devastation of pearl buttons and tin plates, but for the riot, strikes, bloodshed, the battle, murder and sudden death in thia country, as well as the price of butter. Mrs. FoBter'a Literary Bureau. Mrs. Foster, who is an eloquent and convincing speaker, will stump New York for Harrison and Reid. At the present moment she is attending to the publication and dissemination of a series of political pamphlets. The first has already been issued, and is called "Objects and Methods." The next will be "The American Renaissance." Then will follow "The Immigration Question;" "Republican Conten tions and Suprime Court Decisions," written by Mrs. Foster, whose legal training eminently fits her to establish the fact that every essen ti al principie contended for by the Republican party has been finally sustained by the supreme judiciary. A Woman on "Finance.1 Another interesting pamphlet, "Our Finances," is written by a woman - Mrs. Margaret S. Burke, of Washington, a specialist in politics and finance. This lady is more intimately acquainted with financial questions, and especially the practical side of the tariif question, than any other woman in the country. She is as familiar with the vaults of the treasury department as an employee. Her paper will be a complete refutation of the fallacies of the People's party theorie8. Mrs. Burke is the author of a book now being published in chapters in the Chicago ínter Ocean entitled "The Story of Hercules," being a history of the financial policy of the Republican party. Scène at Women's Republican Eleadquarter. Whereas at the national Republioan headquarters there is inuch confusión and masculine hubbub, at the women's hoadquarters business is conducted with gentle deliberation and a mild feminine flutter. Mrs. Foster's aids are pretty, refined, educated women. No one seeras unsexed; no one has as yet acquired the brazen exterior popularly supposed to accoinpany an interest in politics. During the three hours I spent at headquarters I did not see one woman who by the mildest stretch of iinagination would answer the description of a feminine "wire pulier" or "ward heeler" or ing sister even. ïhere was a graceful, yellow haired girl in a biscuit colored tailor frock, Miss Romeyn Shaw, of Binghamton, who vvill travel with Mrs. Foster; there was Mrs. Flora Ovington, of lovva, with wonderfuï sof t little white curls rxaming a face of great spirituality and sweet ness, and there was Mrs. E. E. Howard, of Boston, a handsonie woinan with snowy hair and sad, serious, dark eyes, who wears the silver cross upon the bosom of her stern black gown. The rooms are constantly filled with an ever changing crowd of interested women seeking information and tracts. Of course Mrs. Foster is the inost prominent figure. She is a fascinating conversationist and speaks with enthnsiasm of the coming campaign.

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