Arizona republican., 1918-07-19

our children and our children's chil- dren for generations; surely in this great crisis sNhere we are making sacrifices and making ready for sacrifices on a scale never before known; surely when we are rendering such fealty to the idealism on the part of the young men sent abroad to die: surely we have a right to ask and to expect a loyal idealism in life from the men and the women who stay at home.
 Our young men have gone to the other side-very many of them to give up in their joyous prime all the glory and all the beauty of life for the prize Of death in battle for a lofty ideal. Now while they are defending you, can't we men and women at home make up our minds to try to insist in public and private on loftier idealism here at home? l am asking for an idealism which shall find expression beside the hearthstone and in the fam fly and in the councils of the state and nation.
 Can Be Proud They Fought.
 And I ask you to see that when those who have gone abroad to endure every species of hardship, to risk their lives, to give their lives-when those of them who live come home, that they shall come home to a nation which We by our actions have made a nation they can be proud to have fought for and | to have died for
 Besides Colonel Roosevelt's speech. the convention listened to a patriotic keynote speech by Representative J. Sloat Fassett, elected him temporary chairman, named platform and ere dentials committees and received and referred to the platform committed several resolutions. One of these de- manded that United States Senator Wadsworth support the federal suf- | frage constitutional amendment or re- sign. Another called for a referendum on Sunday baseball.
 The platform committee subsequent ly elected Miss Mary Garrett Hay ot New York as chairman. she being g compromise candidate acceptable tt the rival factions. The platform con- mittee continues at work tonight.
 Politics Is Patriotism on Job."
 Politics is patriotism on the job. declared Miss Helen Earick Boswell executive secretary of the organiza ton of republican women of the state i in delivering the women'S keynote speech at tonight's session of the re publican state convention. She wa. the only woman speaker. Her addres: also marked the first occasion in thu history of the state when a woman ad dressed a convention of one of the biz parties on terms of equality with men Her address, in part, follows:
 'The keynote of this convention is naturally, patriotism and service Women are here for the first time a! working parts of political convention in this state They are here becaus, their patriotism has been so expressed in service that the men of New Yorl gave the one great recognition of tha patriotism and that service that la. in their hands to give; equality of op portunity and of expression in the po litical life of our state.
 Women Not Restricted.
 The men of New York have cease' to restrict the women to the four c of the kaiser-'church, children, cook ing and clothes They have accepte' and will use to the advantage of tn state our aptitude for governmental a well as for home work.
 Tn the great state of New York where we have had our first enroll ment of women voters, the figure show more new republicans than dem ocratic voters of the state. The an ! swer of the enrolment list is that tn republican party appealed mor . strongly to women than did any othe party and did so because it showed tn opportunity for the individual"