Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1912 — MRS. STEPHEN B. AYRES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MRS. STEPHEN B. AYRES.

Corresponding Secretary of the Woman's National Demo era tie League.

The Women's National Democratic of which Mrs. Woodrow Wil son and Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall, wives of the leading Democratic candidates. are honorary president and honorary vice president respectively and Mrs. John S. Crosby is president, has opened headquarters at 1123 Broadway, New York city, in charge of the corresponding secretary, Mrs. Stephen B. Ayres, wife of Congressman Ayres of New York. The work being accomplished daily by Mrs. Ayres and her corps of stenographers and aids is not for the campaign moment only, but foundation building for the future of Democracy. It is the first strictly woman’s national political movement to be organized in the United States and, as such, appeals to thinking women everywhere. “It has not declared for or against the question of equal suffrage nor should it be expected to do so any more than it would discuss the questions of religion." said Mrs. Ayres from her post as “live wire” of the league. “We are simply good Democrats banded together for ‘the greatest good to the greatest number of American housewives, who today are required to pay more in this country for American goods than they would have to pay for the same goods In a foreign land.” She is especially interested in the tariff on articles In constant feminine hse and has devek>i>ed into quite a speaker at the “housewives’ ” meetings of the tariff committee of the national Democratic committee.