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...virtually assured that another woman will enter Congress soon. At present there are four U. S. Congresswomen-Mrs. Florence Prag Kahn of California, Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, Mrs. John W. Langley of Kentucky, Mrs. Mary P. Norton of New Jersey. The new & likely candidate is Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, daughter and widow of politicians, who wittily copied President Coolidge and "chose" to run for Republican Congresswoman-at-large from Illinois. The male voices which last week boomed Mrs. McCormick's nomination in the primary next spring and her election next autumn, came from the heights and depths...
Widow of the late Senator Medill McCormick, she, aged 47, has lived and breathed politics since she was old enough to realize that her father, the late Mark Hanna, was a very important man. When Mark Hanna was in the U. S. Senate, she, a smart bud, fresh from Dobbs Ferry and Farmington, was there too, at work in his office. She says: "If I wanted to dance until four o'clock in the morning, well and good, but I had to be in the office just the same at nine o'clock and be good-natured about...
Having married politics, she rose to enjoy a prestige in the capital second only to presidents' wives and to Alice Roosevelt Longworth, whose father was often at loggerheads* with Mrs. McCormick's father. When Miss Hanna first saw Miss Roosevelt, the latter had just "burst upon the world as Princess Alice." Miss Hanna thought Princess Alice a harum-scarum. Princess Alice thought the young lady who presided over the griddle cakes and corned beef hash at Senator Hanna's political breakfasts in Lafayette Square, a superb prig...
...which helped Charles S. Deneen take her husband's Senatorship from him shortly before he died in 1925. Her cry then was: "Turn the rascals out!" Her explanation for associating herself with Mayor Thompson, and his friend, Governor Lennington Small of Illinois, now is: "Party regularity was a Hanna creed, you know...
...from Buffalo to Washington in President McKinley's funeral train, Mark Hanna exploded: "I told William McKinley it was a mistake to nominate that wild man at Philadelphia. I asked him if he realized what would happen if he should die. Now look, that damned cowboy is President of the United States...