The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-29
FULL PARTICIPATION
BY WOMEN IN 1920

! The Republican national committee
has issued the following statement:
1t is the very earnest purpose of the
Republican national organization to
do all that can possibly be done to
make certain the full participation
by the Republican women of the
country in the party's affairs. The
Republican national womans execu-
tive committee appointed some time
ago to develop plan to that end
has reported, and pursuant to their
recommendation there has been Gre
lated a woman's division of the Repub-
lican national committee.
Mrs. Medill Mccormick of Illinois,
chairman of the original committee.
was first designated as chairman of
the woman's division. Because of her
illness, however, she is unable to take
up this duty. and Mrs. John G. South
of Frankfort. Kentucky, has been
unanimously selected. Mrs South is
an active worker in womans affairs
and daughter of the late Senator
William d. Bradley of Kentucky.
There are three vice-chairmen-
Miss Mary Garrett Hay of New York,
Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter of To-
peka, Kansas, and Mrs. Josephine
Corliss Preston of Olympia, Washing
ton.
As part of the division there is
to be national women's council of
one hundred, made up of leaders in
all lines of woman's activities in the
country. the selection of which hun
dred women is now in progress. This
council is to meet at frequent inter-
walls and discuss policies and other
wise aid by advice and cooperative
action the efforts of the woman's di-
vision. In addition, there is an ex-
ecutive committee of the division, to
look especially to the organization
work. This committee, of which Miss
Mary Garrett Hay is chairman, con-
sists of eleven women. as follows:
Mrs. Thomas H. Carter. Montana;
Miss Mary Garrett Hay, New York;
Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter, Kan
lsas; Mrs. Josephine Corliss Preston,
Washington, Mrs. Florence Collins
Porter, California; Mrs. Raymond
Robins, Illinois; Mrs. John Glover
South, Kentucky; Miss Maude Wet
more. Rhode Island; Mrs. Bina West,
Michigan; and Mrs. C. A. Severance.
Minnesota.
In addition there is being desig-
mated representative of the wo-
mans division in each state, locally
selected, and the entire group con-
stituting the woman's division of the
national committee acting with the
committee as an essential part of 1t
lin it's activities.
The Republican women, coming
more and more into the rights df
their full citizenship, are most inn
portant factors in the situation. They
are part of the party membership
not as women, but as voters, entitled
to participate, and participate insofar
as the present legal limitations per-
nit, just as other voters.
Their activity is not supplementary.
ancillary, or secondary, at ALL They
are not to be separated nor segre-
gated, but assimilated and amalga-
mated, with just that full considera-
tion due every working member of
the party; and the Republican ma
tional committee is sure that the Re
publican women will come into the
party's activities with that sense of
responsibility necessarily consequent
upon these activities. and will aid.
through the party, in the solution of
tho prohIaunc faoiu0 tho country