New-York tribune., 1919-02-03
Republican Suffragists to
Organize Down to Every
Village in United States
Prepare for 1920 Contest
Will Give Every Possible
Hell pto Party Ticket; Mrs.
Mccormick Outlines Aim
.Sfnf CORRESPONDENT CO

Stuf Corresoondsnce
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2-Every Re-
publican woman in the country is to
be sought as member of the organi-
zation mapped out by the Republican
Women's National Executive Commit
tee. Mrs. Medill Mccormick, chairman
of the Women's Committee, has an
nounced plans for drawing every Re
publican woman into the campaign of
1920.
1.-THE Republican Women's Commit
tee was appointed by Mr.. Hays to act
with the men," said Mrs. Mccormick
today "There is much valuable work
for the women to do. One of the prin-
einal aims of the Women's Comm ttee
is to stimulate interest in the party so
that the people who don't vote will go
to the polls
Besides he, ordinary old-fashioned
campaign routine, the Women's Com
mittee of the Republican party is plan
ming q new line of educational work.
We believe that women can teach for
eigners to vote. They can organize
citizenship classes. They can see that
the proper translations are made of
pamphlets on Americanization and on
citizenship"
Five Members on Committee
There are five members of the Wom-
ems Committee: Mrs. Mccormick,
chairman; Mrs Mabel Gilmore Rein
eeke. executive secretary; Mrs. Mar
garet Hill McCarter. of Kansas; Mrs.
Josephine Preston, of Washington; Mrs.
Raymond Robins, of Chicago. and Miss
Mary Garret Hay, of New York Ac-
+C q oSanAnI L.
by the committee in Chicago on Janu-
airy 10, the chairman of each Republi-
can state central committee will ap-
point woman chairman for woman's
state committee. The state chairman
will be appointed by Mrs. Mccormick,
and they in turn will form their own
committees and appoint county chair
men of county women's committees.
The system will extend down to the
smallest political units in the state. 1t
will be the first first business of this
network of women's committees to en-
roll every Republican voter in the state.
The committee women viii work with
the mems committees in helping elect
the Republican ticket.
Mrs. Mccormick has issued the fol-
lowing statement concerning the Won
ems National Executive Committee:
Ihe committee Of women appointed
by Mr.. Hays has prepared a plan of
organization upon the assumption that
we shall enlist the support of. women
in sound and progressive economy
and social programme. The women are
not interested in the shibboIeths OF
yesterday. They are learning and
speaking the current speech of gov
eminent to-day.
Expect to Go Forward
I'VE shorld not have undertaken
this work unless we believed that the
Republican Party was q party of ac-
tion ana not of phrases. and that a
Republican Congress, in spite of it's
difficult situation, will find real lead
ers and 90 forward.
The plan which we have submitted
10 you is not in any way original. If
II has any virtue. the virtue is that it
Follows the familiar lines Of political
organizat on. 1t intends that women,
as Republicans and citizens, shall work
not Independently but in association
with men and under the leaders of
the party. We seek TO draw into the
active service Of the Republican party
those women who have earned and JUS
tined their leadership in the long ac-
eustomed services Of womeA Women
"-N aioFS tl4Oo WOu the 7 way KNOW ana
are known to women throughout their
states and throughout the country, Just
as you as our party leaders are known.
through these women we shall reach
others. and so bring to the women in
the cities and in the villages, in the
counties and at the crossroads. our
purposes. But what is more impor-
tant we shall thus be able to draw
from them knowledge of these changes.
tnose reforms approved by their in
tsiiieence and commended by their
hearts.
Women's States Carried
You yourselves know from your ex-
perience during these war times how
women heretofore uninterested in pub
lie affairs have been drawn into 4he
various war activities. thereby proving
mat cooperation between the sexes has
increased the efficiency of the war ad-
mlnlstration here at home.
This must be considered in coniunc-
uon with the fact that in 1912 com
nlned vote of the Progressives and the
republicans showed that we carried the
states where women were enfranchiscd
~ 1915 We lost all of the enfranchised
aates, with the exception of Oregon