Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Volume IX, Number 26, 8 ʻOkakopa 1936 — Women Leaders Desert Republicans Bcause Of Campaign Literature [ARTICLE]

Women Leaders Desert Republicans Bcause Of Campaign Literature

"I intend to approach the issues fairly, as I see them, without rancor or passion," said Gov, Alf M. Landon at Topeka in aecepting the Republican nomination for President.

There has been no more flagrant violātion of this pledge than the manner in whīeh the 01d Guard high command has imposed upon women Republicans whose services they had solicited in the campaign. Scores of wives and widows of prominent Republic.ans in many parts of the coiuntry have rebelled at the type of "literature" supplied to them and announced their purpose of supporting President Roosevelt. A notab!e instance was Mrs. Charles S. Whitman, wife of the former Republican governor of New York.

"I have always voted a straight Republican tiek e t, without thinking very mueh about it," she said in a statement isstied at Democratic National Head-' quarters in New York City. "My change of political belief was crystalized by joining a class for pubiic speaking at the Women's Republican Club. The statistics, data and so-called 'arguments' handed me, on whiqh I was supposed tō l3ase" my speēches attacking the national administration, turned me definitely to Mr. Roosevelt. I found I coiul<i not speak against him. There may be criticism of .methods employed in attacking the unprecedented eme!rgenpies that eonfronted him, but there ean be no criticism of the policies themselves. The country had in fact been waiting for them a long time.

Asked by representatives of 01d Guard newspapers about "the tax oullook," Mrs. Whitman was reported in the orthodox New York Heraid Tribune to have replied: "I am not frightened. I look at my chlldren , s trust fun4, whieh had reached rock bottom during the Hoover adniinistration, and I find it lias now doubled iU face value."

In an open letter to the Republican National Committ.ee, the Chicago Times, tlnd.), revealed how that organization imposed upon anotlier weilknown woman Republican, Madame tformer Princess) Cantacuzene, granddaughter of President U. S. Grant. The Chicago paper quoted in ite open letter the following extract from a prepared speecii by Mnie. Cantac*uzene broacast from Chicago:

.. the veil lias recently been lifted, providing PROOF that the leaders of the Communtats in Russia have ordered American Communists to %vork for Roosevelt's elcction. Those Conununist leaders, an official announeement in the press of Aug. 9 revealed, ordered their agent« and tlieir servants in tlie United States. whieh means ALL Anierieaii Comniunists, to \<P|irk for Mr. Rooseveit's eleeUon."

Tiie Times advised the G.O.P. national organization tliat its cditor "reached Mme. Cantacu2ene at her hoine iu Wasiiiiigton, D. C., by lelephone, We asked her what proo£ slie imā to justify her stateuient, She rcpiied Uiat siie ivad svcn a repriut» sSpoiUsored by Uie Rcpublican Naliouai CominitUx s , ol an arUeie tiiat appeared iu Uie Ciucaso rribune of Aus. 9 and slie liad taken tlie story in good faith."

Wlūeli vas Mme, Caxxtacu£cue's error. Because, a£ slie exl>laiiieā, she ha<i onty heani q! Uie seiisaliewal story ui Septeuiber, and siie iwt lh&t the Times lids post,ed a, $5,000 cadi revvai\i īor p;-oof ot the Ciucaso §th