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MRS. TOM'S PART
IN THE ELECTION
ernor Marshall's Wife
the Memory for Names.
him making a speech when he has fin
ished he does not stay around to heir
the applause of'the audience. Ra'.her.
be hurries to hi room and changes
hla clothing
"Some people have said that Tom
Marshall Is not a handshaking pollti-
clan. He la not. His wife thinks It is
Governor Marshall's Wife Has more important to guard his health
in. hi mi carry oui me uiu uiup policy,
and she Is correct, as she is In most
all other things."
"Home Air" Prevails.
The Marshall home Is typical of the
mistress. It Is a home of books, and
ntlll one does not feel "bookish." One
of the Marshall friends said he always
felt like eating when he entered the
Marshall home In Columbia City or
the executive mansion at Indianapolis.
Mrs. Marshall believes In a home '
first, and the "home air" prevails.
"If Governor Marshall ever occupied
the White House people would not j
know that historic Institution," de-
Mrs Marshall
ROMANCE OF THEIR LIVES
The Notification of the Indiana Ex
ecutive for Democratic Vice-Presidency
Honors a Record Breaker.
THOMAS R. MARSHALL.
If you think, dear reader, that
thlB paper is going to try to prove
Its democracy by ripping every man
up the back who calls himself a re
publican, or who happens to he a
republican candidate for office, you
have another guess coining. Or If
you think because the paper is dem tna greeted Governor Marshall in the
ocratlc It will support, without re j big coliseum In the state fair grounds,
gard to character or qualifications. Indianapolis, on Tuesday were the
every' man who comes up for office. 1 greateat In the history of the party.
you re still guessing. The west wanted to show the east
what could be done In notification
honors, and, while Mrs. Marshall was
happy, of course, over the honors for
Iter husband, ahe was also worried, for
her husband comes mighty cloee to
being father, husband, eon and part
ner all la one. And when a woman
hae that combination on her hands to
care for she has every right to be
worried.
Governor Marshall will never gain
any honors as a hammer thrower. He
is not built that way.
The Appeal to Reason says tli.it
a the Baltimore convention Hryim
f-houted that "no candidate for the
presidency who received the vote of
lurphy and his Tammany gang
should ever have his support." A
little change in the sentence Is need
ed to make it correct, but that little
change makes a wonderful change
in the meaning. What Bryan really
said was that he would not support
for the presidency a candidate
depended upon Murphy and llelniont
and .Morgan and Kyan for his notn
ination. The nomination of Wood
row Wilson was secured before the
votes of those men went to him
CALL FOR PROGRESSIVE PARTY
CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION!
By J. C. HAMMOND.
Of Democratic National Publicity Bu
reau. Indianapolis. Just about the time
that thousands of friends of Governor
Thomas HIIpv Marshall were anxious- clares an admirer
ly wanting to shake his hand .in con woul(1 have u a real home- People
gratulatlon on his acceptance as can- wou,d feel comfortable even In the
dldate of vice-president on the Demo- n,,dst of tne old an(1 Ktter."
cratlc ticket, a smiling woman step- Hut not on,v as a w,f and th
ped before him. and if one could have mistress of a home that Mrs. Marshall
heard what Bhe whispered In his ear ehoW8 her ability She Is a politician
It would have been something like flnd a rlovpr one she fll8 haa a r
"Now, hurry In. Tom, and change n,arkable memory
your clothes." I Governor Marshall has earned the
And Tom Marshall forgot to shake reputation of being In a class of story
hands with the enthusiastic friends all by himself. He can remem-
untll he had carried out the orders of ber 8tor,". but be forgets names. A
Mrs Tom. I ""," bi something to be cast aside
Indiana has honored four of her w,th Governor Marshall, and this Is
eone as vlca-presldentlal candidates on onn of the rerets of hls ,lfe- ,f he ha
the Democratic ticket, but the crowds any regrets. The governor Is not a
worrying man. He Is somewhat a fa-,
tallst, but If be could he would like
to remember names; but, not having
that ability, he does not worry", for
Mrs Marshall Is the name remember-
! er of the family.
She has a peculiar ability along this
line. Not only does she remember
the last name, but any combination of
names comes as second nature to her,
and she carries this ability on down to
i the children and cousins of any one
seeking the governor.
While the governor Is shaking hands
and trying to remember whether his
1 caller Is Jones or Smith, Mrs. Marshall
is busy supplying the Information and
asking about all the relatives.
Ideal Partners.
, Governor Marshall has no brothers
; or sisters, and his parents being dead
leaves him somewhat barren of rela-
I tires.
I Governor Marshall's friends are en
thusiastic over his home life. When
he has started on talking of his wife
a new light In the Hoosler executive
comes to the surface.
They come near being Ideal married
partners.
"I was talking to Tom one day,"
explained one of his most Intimate
friends. "We were leaning back, and
Tom bad been telling some of his good
stories to Illustrate various topics of
oar conversation We were waiting
for Mrs. Marshall to come back from
a shopping tour, and 1 happened to re
mark that I liked Mrs. Marshall bet
ter every time I met her.
" 'Well, now that's the way she
strikes me, Jim,' he said, 'We have
been married some sixteen years, and
as time goes that is a long or short
period. Just as you think. To me It la
CIGARETTES ARE
BAD FOR WOMEN
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson Has De
cided Views on Subject.
k CONFUSION OF NAMES
BREAKING IT OPEN AGAIN
C. R. Macauley, New York World.
While all the country was reading
the vigorous words of Governor Mar- i ut Acting day. Then I think back
shall which told the voters what he over my married life and find I have
Whereas, at a meeting of electors
held in Kearney, Nebr.. on August
19, LAIS, a new party was organized
under the provisions of sect Ions No.
6811 and 5905 of Cobbey s Statute of
Nebraska, and the name " Progressive
Tarty'' was adopted as the name of
said new party to act in conjunction
with .mil be a part of the Progtes
sive Party organized in Chicago in
Augu-t, Itll, and the undersigned
wcr elected temporary chairman
and temporary secretary for the pur
pose of perfecting said organization
in the Sixth Congressinal District of
Nebraska, and
Whereas, a resolution was adopted
at said meeting directing said offic
ers to call a mass convention of the
said Progressive Party for the Sixth
Congressional District of Nebraska
to meet in Kearney. Nebr., on the
L'hth day of August, Itlt, for the
purpose of perfecting the organiza
tion of said Progressive Part, and
for the purpose of placing in uom
lnatlon a candidate for Congress of
said party.
Now Therefore, Pursuant to said
resolution the i lectin.-, desiring to
participate in the organisation cf
said Kew parly kuouti as the Pr
grggttvg Party of the Sixth Congres
sional District of Nebraska ntv here
by called to nnet in Mass Conven
tion ;it the City Hull in Kearney, Ne
braska, on Wednesday, the L'Mh day
of August, lilt, at II o'clock A M .
for the purpose of placing nomina
tion a candidal for Congressman
lor the said Sixth Congressional Dis
trict of Nebraska, representing said
new party, and far the purpose of
perfecting the organization of the
same and electing a committee to
represent said party in said district
and 'or the transaction of such oth
cr business as may properly come
before said mass contention
JOHN BRADY,
Temporary Chairman
D. K. WALT Kit.
Temporary Secretary.
expects Democracy to do in carrying
out the pledges for the next four years
It's worth while to know what part a
woman Is taking in the affairs of the
campaign how Tom Marshall hap
pens to be In the position in which be
stands today.
grown to know Mrs. Marshall better
every day. A man must not only love
bnt he must also respect his partnet
In this life respect her In all things.
She must have wonderful qualities to
make the love and respect grow deep
er and better each day. That's been
The good people of Columbia City, j my history
Ind., never thought Thomas Itlley Mar
shall was a "marrying man." For for
ty years lie had lived with hla par
enta, nursing both his father and
mother, who were invalids, which was
the reason Governor Marshall was not
a marrying man. He felt his first duty
was to his parent.
Meeting Mrs. Marshall.
After the death of his parents Gov
ernor Marshall dived deeper into his
law practice, and one day an urgent
case took him to Angola, Ind. His du
ties called him to the county clerk's
office, and there be met Miss Lois
Klmsey. daughter of the county clerk,
who was assisting her father in the
office.
From that day Governor Marshall
had more business around the county
clerk's office In Angola than any law
yer In half a dozen nearby counties.
Governor Marshall was forty-two
years of age when he was married,
Mrs. Marshall being nearly twenty
years his junior.
The Marshall! had boon married
only a few weeks when the future
vice-president was called to an adjoin
ing county on a case that would con
sume some tlve or six weeks of his
time.
"Now. I did not want to be starting
off like that," Governor Marshall ex
plained to a friend one day, "so I just
told Mrs. Marshall that I thought sha
should go along. And she did."
" 'The fact that Mrs. Marshall baa
been In pvmpathy In my work, my
play, my lire. Is good. Dut I have been
easfHc
-"''- V B: -
MRS. MARSHALL.
in sympathy with hers. Ours Is not a
one sided life. We have been part
ners, and that's the way it should be
In this world.'"
Mrs. Marshall has watched over hid
I administration of the affairs of Indiana
Since then Governor Marshall has i with a Jealous care. There has been
n
Don't Overlook
that ssrrtottaa If yea
ere ia snrtsri remember
that we caa always ftcd
good mm for
the MONEY
never made a trip without Mrs. Mar
shall going along. They have trav
eled all over the country totgether;
they go to banquets and political
meetings together until the friends of
the Indiana executive refer to him and
bis wife as toe "pards."
"Tom Marshall is not over strong."
explained one of his friends. "While
not a delicate man, his constitution is
not of the most vigorous type.
"When he gets into a political bat
tle he forge's his weakness. He gives
II that Is in him, and that will tell on
any man. Mrs Marshall soon discov
ered that the governor would beconw
heated In making a speech and the
next day his voice would be husky
She decided that he had better give up
some of the handshaking and take care
of his health first. So when you find
nothing of the spectacular In his ad
ministration. It has been a sane gov
ernment. The lawa that he has fought
for and won show the spirit of the
man. They are uplifting They deal
with the improvement of man, woman
and child.
While Governor Marshall is describ
ed aa a "tender hearted" executive,
nevertheless, he is a fighter. He be
longs to the old fighting stock of Vir
ginia. Governor Marshall is not a dodger.
He has his opinions, and he lets them
be known. While be is an organization
man, he knows that organizations are
not perfect that they can m :lce mis
takes. If they make mistakes he
thinks it Is his duty to say so and get
the saying over at tha first possible
moment.
Mrs. Marshall is not satisfied with
her domestic dutieB aloue. She wants
to do her share In problems of the po
litical and business world. Mrs. Mar
shall is said to have discussed In de
tail with her husband his actions on
the Baltimore convention, and when it
was seen that Marshall was the man
who was going to go on the ticket
with Wilson he wanted to know what
his wife thought about it.
"It won't be any harder than being
governor of Indiana, and If the party
thinks you are the man It only agrees
with my opinion," she said, and that
settled the matter with Governor Mar
shall. Mrs. Marshall had the honor of be
ing the first woman in Indiana to hold
an office. She was appointed county
clerk of Steuben county by her father
and held that office for a number of
years.
When Governor Marshall and his
wife were about to be married ahe de
cided that her last official act of the
office would be to make out the mar
riage license. Governor Marshall ac
companied bis wife to the county
clerk's office and watched her with
care as she noted the records In the
big book and filled out the license and
watched her aa she carefully signed
her father's name, with her own aa
deputy.
Mrs Marshall, having blotted the
Ink, said, "Now we can go."
"Not yet," laughed Governor Mar
shall. Why, we are all fixed," explained
Mrs. Marshall, pointing to the license.
"Yea, but I have to pay for it," re
plied the governor, "it's all right for
you to make it out, but it's up to me
to pay the fee." And he did.
Mrs. Marshall U a keen student,
and, having established the practice of
going with her husband on all his
trips, be they short or long, they make
it a point to carry along some books.
Mrs. Marshall is as much of a hu
manitarian as the governor. A glance
at some of the bills that have been
passed by the 1911 Indiana legislature
gives an insight into the governor:
To curtail child labor.
To regulate sale of cold storage
products.
To require hygienic achoolhouses
and medical examination of children.
The prevent blindness at birth.
To regulate sale of cocaine and oth
er druga.
To provide free treatment for hy
drophobia. To establish public playgrounda.
To improve pure food laws.
To protect against loan sharks.
To provide police court matrons.
To prevent traffic In white slaves.
To permit night schools.
To require medical supplies as part
of a train equipment.
Governor Marshall has also played
n active part In providing for protec
tion of labor, aa Is exampled by the
following acts:
To creat ) a bureau of Inspection
'or workshops, factories, mines and
boilers.
To establish free employment agen
cies. To require full train crews.
To require safety devices on switch
imglnea.
To require efficient headlights on
engines.
To require standard cabooses.
To provide weekly wage, etc.
And Governor Marshall has con
sulted .with his "partner" on all these
bills. He Is quoted as saying a man
".an't go far wrong In taking the ad
vice of a wife if she is his partner as
well as bis wife.
ROLLA WELLS IS
EARLY ON THE JOB
Democratic National Treasurer
Is After Small Contributor.
THE PEOPLE ARE TO HELP
There la to Be No "Tainted Money"
Used In Electing Wilson and Marshall.
New York. A small, smooth Bhaved.
middle-aged man with a coat of tan
that gave evidence of much outdooi
life recently came into the Waldorf
carrying a suit case early In the after
noon and registered as "Rolla Wells i
St. Louis, Mo."
The smooth shaved little man, whe
g to be the watchdog of the Wilson
campaign money from now on. was j
asked for vital statistics, whereupon
It was learned at first band that he Is
a banker and ex-mayor of St. Louts
h fifty six years old. was graduated at
Prince on In 1876, or three years be
fore Governor Wilson wa graduated;
that he has two eons who are Prince j
ton men and a grandson who some
day will be a Princeton man; that b- I
had no notion of seeing New York I
this summer until the Wilson organ! J
zatlon selected him as Its treasurei j
and that Just at present the one thing
that sticks out in the appointment tn
his mind is that the new Job cnt In se
Howry upon a most beautiful vacation
which be and Mrs. Wells ha been tn
Joying In a camp at Little Traverse
bay. Michigan.
Mr. Wells believes tn getting at !ilf
desk at 8 o'clock In the moaning.
"We are going to raise our cam
paign fund through the small contrlbn
Hons," said Mr. Wells.
"I am sure that a large part of the
money will be raised by popular sub
scrl prion.
"The people have confidence In
Woodrow Wilson, and they will give
what they can of their means to elect
such a man president.
"I am a great believer in publishing
broadcast, before and after election,
the various contributions made.
"There are men who can well afford
to give the committee $5,000. but I
want to assure the public that we are
not going to have any tainted money.
"We are appealing to the people, j
and we are relying on them to help
elect Wilson and Marshall.
"I have two boys who have been
graduated from Princeton, one five
years ago and one seven. But It Is
not because ours Is a Princeton fam
ily that 1 like Governor Wilson He Is
a great big man and the type that we
should have In public life "
Woodrow Wilson says this Is not a
time to be afraid to "speak out In
meeting " That he was not afraid Is
demonstrated hy his logical speech In
accepting the Democratic nomination.
The divided Republican party Is
like the boy "blowlug" against the
wind." There will be a lot of bluster,
but it will not take votes away from
Wilson and Marshall.
Having exhausted his supply of ad
jectives in denouncing Taft. Roosevelt
Is now leading a campaign of denun
ciation of every one who does not
agree with himself.
Farmers have pulled against the
short end of the yoke long enough.
Wilson and Maruhall promise to oee
that the pulling Is made more nearly
even.
Roosevelt was willing to crawl from
the White House to the capltol In 190
If he could help his friend Root. To
day he would like nothing better than
meeting Root up a dark atley.
The Democrats are depending on
the small contributor to help elect
Wilson and Marshall The appeal is
being made to the people, and the
people are responding
The Democrats are not taking the
election of Wilson for granted. They
are working and working harder than
in a score of years and working as a
united party.
Wife of Democratic Candidate Gives
Out Letter Taking Strong Stand on
Smoking Habit.
New York. For the first time since
Woodrow Wilson became the Demo
cratic presidential candidate has Mrs.
Wilson appeared. She attended In
person her husband's dally conference
with reporters, although heretofore
she has made special requests that
ihe be not quoted nor written about
In the papers
That Mrs. Wilson wished to have
fully understood was that If she be
comes the first lady of the land she
will not, as has been said In a widely
distributed interview, have packages
of cigarettes tn her personal desk at
the White House and indulge In smok
ing them with her callers.
Through Governor Wilson, Mrs. Wil
son asked that publicity be given to a
letter she bad written to the editor of
the State Journal at Columbus, O., re
pudiating an alleged Interview with
her in which she defended cigarette
smoking for women. The Interview
had come to her in a letter signed
"American Citizen," which said:
' "Dear Madam I can scarcely think
of any greater calamity to the young
women of the nation than to read such
a preachment as your interview offers
them. I am a workingman, and I
men lose their Jobs almost every day
because they are Incapacitated for
work by the use of the cigarette. If
smoking does this for strong men
what will it do for girls and women?"
The" "interview" was Indeed a cor
dial indorsement of the woman smok
er. Here are some of its assuring
phrases, all credited to Mrs. Wilson:
"A woman w riter for a syndicate of
Sunday newspapers asked Mrs. Wood
row Wilson if she agreed with Ger
trude Atherton's opinion of the smok
ing of cigarettes by women. She smil
ingly exhibited three cigarette boxes
piled in the corner of her desk, all but
empty.
" 'Why shouldn't a woman smoke it
she enjoys it?" she queried.
" 'Why hasn't she Just as much right
to a cigarette as a man? Certainly I
agree with Mis. Atberton that any
existing prejudice against women
smoking is to the last silly and ab
surd.
" 'Smoking cigarettes la a question
of manners, not morals. It promotes
good fellowship.
" 'Come women feel that a cigarette
calms their nerves and helps their
brains Into working order. Personally
smoking diffuses my thoughts Instead
of concentrating them. I enjoy it as 1
enjoy after-dinner coffee. Both are
pleasant ways of ending and finishing
off; both add to conviviality and good
fellowship.' "
The editor of the Ohio State Jour
nal, it was clear, had been much in
censed at the apologies for the cigar
ette habit among women attributed to
Mrs. Wilson, so be wrote on Aug, 10
an editorial in which he called for the
defeat of Governor Wilson or a repu
diation from his wife. If there was no
mistake about it, he wrote, "Mrs
Woodrow Wilson shouldn't be mis
tress of the White House."
If the Ohio editor was emphatic,
Mrs. Wilson was certainly not less so.
After the reporters had said they
would gladly publish her letter to the
Ohio editor she asked for an hour's
time in which to write one. This was
what she prepared:
"Dear Sir I have Just received a
copy of the Journal with your editorial
entitled 'Smoking Women,' and I beg
leave to indignantly deny the state
tnent that I approve of women smok
ing cigarettes. The interview upon
which your editorial was based is a
pure invention. I intensely dislike tha
cigarette smoking habit for women
in fact, so strong is my feeling on th
subject that my real danger lies in be
Ing unjust and unkind in my Judgment
of those who differ with me in this
respect.
"But certainly no woman in out
household ever has or ever will smoke
Quite apart from the bad taste of it, I
believe with you that it has an ex
tremely injurious effect on the nerves.
"ELLEN A. WILSON.
("Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.")
Governor Wilson, in approving the
letter sent out by Mrs. Wilson, offered
what he thought might prove an ex
planation for the Interview.
"I do not think It was maliciously
Invented," he said. "There Is a rather
well known writer who signs herself
Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, and she no
doubt has been confused with Mrs.
Wilson."
Mrs. Wilson Woodrow was formerly
married to a relative of Governor Wil
son, and it is understood that . r
views on the matter of women who
smoke are different from t!: )e b I
In the household of thd Democrat :
candidate.
Il 13 reported that pip-rs w :. ;i
Farmers have awakened to the folly
of tha to-called blessings of a protec
tive tariff.
reporting the bull pa 001 b iv
dcred extra fonts if "Is." A:l
be need'-1 whea Teddy g
Winning with Wilson means more
than a mare Democratic victory It
means restoring real prosperity.
Vender how the LdLiaol UkCS b)t8 ;
an ou ait?