Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1919 — WOMAN REFUSES POST [ARTICLE]

WOMAN REFUSES POST

Miss Mabel Choate of New York city, daughter of Joseph H. Choate, former ambassador to Great Britain and a prominent Republican leader, was recently invited by Chairman \vill H. Hays of the Republican national committee to become a member of the ways and means committee for New York city. She declined the invitation and made public through the New York Times her reply to Mr. Hays. In it she said: “I am mot willing to identify myself at the present moment with the Republican party which has taken the grave responsibility of killing the peace treaty under the ignoble leadership of Mr. LodgeThe league of nations is the one great moral result of the war, and I do not believe the United States will stand for its defeat.”