Jane Addams Statement on Mayoralty, July 2, 1913

Jane Addams Shuns Honors
HAS NO AMBITION TO BE CHICAGO'S MAYOR.
ANSWER RELUCTANT
Against Principles of Suffrage Movement to Take Big Office.

New York, July 2 -- "I don't desire to be a candidate for the mayoralty of Chicago," So said Jane Addams, of Hull House, when she arrived on the steamer Olympic from Budapest as a delegate to the World's Woman Suffrage congress.

"The fact friends mentioned me for the mayoralty is a surprise. It is hardly fair to expect me to answer now whether I would accept the nomination or not. It is against our principles that women should start office holding the moment we receive a vote.'

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