 The only other stories with such elements were "The Scarecrow of Oz" and "Tik-Tok of Oz", both based on dramatizations, which Baum regarded warily until his readers accepted them.Sally Roesch Wagner of The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation has published a pamphlet titled "The Wonderful Mother of Oz" describing how Matilda Gage's feminist politics were sympathetically channeled by Baum into his Oz books.Much of the politics in the Republican "Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer" dealt with trying to convince the populace to vote for women's suffrage.