Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-28
WOMEN, BUT NO "VAMPS,"
AT DEMOCRATIC PARLEY
There Are TeaPoung LADIES' However, and Miss Anoinette
Funk, Foster Mother of the McAdoo Boom
BY CLINTON w, GILBERT


San Francisco, June 2S.-Up to the
present, with one convention finished
and the other, drawing to a close, the
best things women in politics have pro-
duced were General Wood headquarters
vamps at Chicago, the ladies who pour
tea in the candidates headquarters here
and one woman organizer for McAdoo.
The latter is Miss Antoinette Funk.
The women do best what they have
been used to doing. Vamping is an
ancient art of the SEX pouring tea is
polite accomplishment OF many of the
sex. Soliciting votes, like soliciting
subscriptions for the Red Cross, is sec
ond nature to the sex.
They haven't any vamps in the can
didates' headquarters in San Francisco.
Perhaps there Is some inherent differ
encc between the Republican and Demo
cratic parties which makes it natural
that the Republican ladies in Gen
eral Woods headquarters were brilliant
vamps, while the Democratic ladies are
not vamps at all.
Men rack their brains telling what
the difference between the two parties
is in these days when both parties are
alternatively conservative or progress
siye as the mood strikes them. Perhaps
this is it. But probably even this diff
ference will fail us and both parties four
wears from now will have their vamps
looking lovely at headquarters and pin
ming buttons on the men or sticking
feathers in their buttonholcs, way to
win hearts for their candidates if not
votes.
Adopted the Abandoned Child
We pass the tea pouring ladies. la
dies mourning tea whether to make pres
idents or to find or help their friends
to find husbands are all very much
alike. Then to NJ iss FUNK When the
| Nc Adoo movement. abandoned by Mr.
NcAdoo. left fatherless and brotherless
nv Mr.. Baruch and Mr.. Roper, was a
lone and pulling infant here. Miss Funk
oIoptcd 1t. She mOthercd it. More
than any one person she kept it alive.
Miss Funk is personality. She
has the energy which women have and
which they haven't generally learned
70 harness to politics. She goes about
tho San Francisco hotels saying to the
doubling males: "Mr. McAdoO will ac
cent, You may take it from me that
he will accept. / know" And she
saws it in a way that will carry con
yiction, You become subscriber tC
the McAdoo movement at once.
All this shows the limit of women in
politics up to now. She allures, she
entertains, she smiles, she introduces
the amenities, she Is in the show win
dow. But she does not belong to the
lodge. She Is not admitted behind the
scenes. Into the great mystery of poll
tics she Is not admitted. 1t will be O
long time before she is.
And this is said at the Democratic
convention, which has shown more con,
sideration for women than the Repub,
lican meeting did, which has named
more women delegates, decided to ado
numerously Of the other sex to its com
mittees and to urge the uhratifyinl
states to ratify the amendment.
Somewhat Out OF Place
IL this were convention of nurs
ing mothers with their babies, mer
would play about the same role in i
that women do in this gathering of mel
performing the male function of pickn,
ont candidates. At Chicago the con,
yention was in the hands of senators
and the political bosses. Both live il
an atmosphere of politics 365 days ou
of the year. There are no women sen
ators. There are no women part,
,, BOSSES. There are no woaitn who liy
ard breathe politics sverssday in th'
il there were such w0uou. they mIsA