Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1916 — “WILSON MOVED CAPITOL BACK FROM WALL STREET” [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

“WILSON MOVED CAPITOL BACK FROM WALL STREET”

"Thank God He Is a 100 Per Cent Man,” Declares Leader of Women's Movement. In contrast to the Hughes junket of Wall Street’s womenfolk, comes this Indorsement of President Wilson from a woman * who has achieved great things, and Is a leader of the real feminist movement.

By Helen Ring Robinson

(State Senator of Colorado.) • I am not with the Woman’s Party. My opposition to its propaganda is based on the fact that I am working, twelve months in the year, to get the ballot for all American women. My experience of practical politics has taught me, among other things, that the Congressional Union is being used, at the present time, as a tool by the forces in this country which have fought, and will continue to fight, equal suffrage. I am for Wilson because, throughout his Administration, he has continuously made his appeal from the jingling of dollars to the rights of man. I am for Wilson because he moved the Capitol of the country from Wall Street back to Washington, and because he has withstood the forces, now back of Hughes, who have sought to remove it to Berlin. I am for Wilson because he has Indeed shown himself “more interested in the fortune of oppressed men and pitiful women and children”—whether in Mexico or in America —than in his own personal fortune. Thank God he is not “a hundred per cent candidate,” but a hundred per cent MAN! I am for Wilson because, whatever his fortune at the coming election, his achievements have given him a supreme place in the list of American

presidents; because his voice, during all those burdened years, has been tiie clear, old-time voiccjof America—the voice that to some of us had seemed muted and overborne by class hatreds and racial hatreds, and the snarling scramble for dividends. However the coming election may turn, the pages of American history which President Wilson has written these past four years will be forever illumined with the white light of stars, and our children and grandchildren will indeed have cause to thank God for Woodrow Wilson. The Republicans don’t like the prevailing prosperity. It’s Democratic and therefore taboo. Give them a chance and they’ll put it out of business.

HELEN RING ROBINSON.