Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-25
Women Will Elect
Next u. S. President,
Says Mrs. Geo. Bass

Nothing doing" said McAdoo,
and the panic which Wall street
threatened to plunge the country
into early in Wilson's second ad-
ministration was averted, declared
Mrs. Antoinette Funk, national
democratic chairman of education,
addressing a gathering Of about Is
democratic, republican and unclassi-
fled" women at Hotel Fontenelle
Thursday afternoon. A few women
from outside the city attended,
notably the presiding officer, who is
Nebraska's representative on the
womans national committee, Mrs.
A. c. Shallenberger of Alma, and
Mrs. T. J. Doyle of Lincoln.
Mrs. Funk, supplied with catch
| phrases and versed in oratorical
standards, entertained her hearers
with review of her sundry and
divers political affiliations, leading
| up to her present, and final-as yet
l-conversion to the democratic faith,
after campaigning, as she expressed
it, three long weeks" for Hughes
| il. 1916. She convinced her audi
ence that no party can be Judged
by its past "any more than you can
| be Judged by all autopsy performed
on your grandfather" and then pro-
ceeded to a detailed review of past
history in the two parties, referring
several times to the republicans as
"the Penrose organization.'
TO Flood Country.
This chairman of education ex-
poets to flood the country with edu-
cational literature, guaranteed to be
honest information-not propaganda
but warranted, at the same time,
to make democrats of its readers:
Her first step toward this "plan"
was education of the party leaders,
who evidently succumbed to her
plea, which, according to her own
statement was made in the follow
ing classical language:
LAY your cards on the table. Not
lust a few hands, but the whole deck
We may not make a grand slam,
but we will take some tricks
The organization of democratic
women under Mrs. George Bass, is
far more complete than the similar
republican group under the leader
ship of Mrs. Medill Mccormick, ac-
cording to Mrs. Funk.
Cummings Addresses Meeting.
Homer S. Cummings of Connect
cut chairman of the democratic ma
tional committee, spoke briefly, say
ing he was addressing a very at.
tractive meeting and that he had
been waiting outside hoping for an
invitation to participate. Il am a
democrat" he said, but would not
be interested in the democratic
party unless I believed that i'll this
particular period of the history OF
the world that party was best cal
culated to serve humanity and the
best interests of society. Woodrow
Wilson is the greatest figure in the
life of modern civilization. More
people today look to that one man
as the hope of humanity than to any
other who trods the face of Gods
green earth. They have become tied
up in the leadership of this great
spiritual leader of the world"
1T is known all over the United
States that women will elect the
next president" declared Mrs.
George Bass, chairman of the wom-
ans section of the democratic ma
tional committee. "They elected
Wilson in 1916. The women of this
country have wanted suffrage; they
are going to use it. This great, new
civic possession, the ballot, is going
to be held as sacred trust by
them to be used in the election of
the next president of the United
States"