Miss Hattie Stein, candidate for the Republican nomination for congress in the 6th district, addressed a crowd of about 250 Raleigh county people here last night in the court house following a campaign of the county lasting since Saturday. While in Raleigh she has seen many of the voters of her party and solicited the said of all. She feels encouraged by the treatment she has been accorded while in the county, she says.

Miss Stain is the first woman candidate for the nomination for congress to appear in the state, and is an interesting and informed woman. She is a native of Baltimore, Md., and has been a resident of this state for some 17 months, having spent most of the time in Boone county. She has for some years been interested in welfare work and during her stay in West Virginia has been connected with the Red Cross and soldier relief work.

At the meeting last night, at which she addressed her prospective constitutents [sic], she opened by asking if any other candidates for congress in this district were present and if so inviting them to occupy the platform with her. None being present she called on Rev. A. H. Matheny, father of one of her opponents, to open the meeting with prayer.

She talked of her candidacy principally and explained her stand on a number of matters. To the women voters she said that it is now a duty for every one of them to vote and that the country is looking to them to purify politics. She then told of an agreement between herself and Mrs. William Gay Brown, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, to conduct only the cleanest of campaigns so that no future woman candidate in this state would have any apology to make for any action of theirs, the first woman candidate for state offices within West Virginia.

Having been so much interested and occupied with public welfare, she dwelt largely on this phase of her platform, telling the audience that she favored the soldier bonus and other welfare measures. She blamed Congressman Echols for not saving South Charleston and West Virginia from the loss of the armor plat plant, which she said he could easily have done. He also was criticized for not supporting the Shepherd-Towner maternity bill. In conclusion she urged all voters to examine carefully candidate and make sure that they did not cast their ballots for unfit men or women.

Like her opponent, M. F. Matheny, she had little or nothing to say regarding the present administration, and not once mentioned the name of President Harding. Apparently neither of the candidates for congress who have spoken here care very much for the administration record and are afraid to endorse it.