The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-07-20
RIVAL POLITICAL CHEFS
ARE WOO|NG FAIR SEX
SEEK THE VOTES OF WOMEN,
$1,000, 900 OF WHOM WILL BE
ELECTORS IN NOVEMBER
MANEUvERING HAS BEGUN

ftepuDilCdNS IAdScu ENC VVA"C" OAs
National Executive Committee;
Democrats Countered With Fifty
Fifty Proposition. Party Fate at
Stake in Coming Election
Will Hayes and Judge Moore, ma
tional chairmen of the two parties,
have gone a-wooing. They are dead
| " rivals. But it is not the hand of
one lady fair they seek. They are
counting on a wholesale basis, and if
the truth must be told they are out to
win not the hearts, but the votes of
81 900, 900 women.
Hays, as the chairman of the Re-
publican National committee, is try
ing to out-Lochinvar Moore. the
chairman of the Democratic National
committee, and each man has enlisted
his entire political family to help him
out in the contest.
Looking for STEADY Company"
Both men feel that the "girlhood
lover" of the political ingenues, who
are going to vote in November for
the first time, will prove to be the
"steady company" of the future, and
for that reason as well as the 1920
election they are vieing with each
other for first choice.
Mr.. Hays is understood to have
made good impression when he APP
reared in Washington with a box OF
bonbons in the form Of five new places
on the Republican executive commit
tee, which he donated to the ladies'.
Women Vote Big Factor
Seriously speaking, and it is very
serious for the rival political mana
gers, Republicans and Democrats
alike are devoting more thought to
how they can capture the so-called
woman vote than to any other phase
of the political battle.
1t is now regarded as certain that
the woman's suffrage amendment TO
the United States constitution VIII
have been ratified by the thirty-sixth
state before the presidential election
in November, and under such condl-
lions 27,000O00 will have the right to
vote.
Under state suffrage laws now on
the statute books approximately TO-
0OO, 600 women have the right to vote
at presidential elections, and with
the federal amendments ratified by the
required three-fourth of the states
II 900 600 more in non-suffrage states
will be added to that number.
Republicans Recognized Issue.
There were 26 women delegates and
124 women alternates sitting in the
Republican national convention at Chi
cago There were 104 women dele
/ gates and 204 women alternates Sit
! ting in the Democratic national con-
vention at San Francisco.
Equal rights does not mean equal
representation, was a familiar say
ing at Chicago when suffragists were
there demanding they be given the
same number of places on the national
committee as the men had. Equal
rights means equal opportunities"
they were told, and the managers adj
vised the women that if they wanted
places on the national committee they
must go out and compete for them
with the men. They must make CAM
paigns.
Democrats Raise the ANTE"
Democrats at San Francisco de-
clare their party made ten-strike IN
permitting each state in the union to
| have one man and one woman mem
Der on the national committee. There
are no women on the present Repubh-
can national committee.
Until two weeks ago, when the Re
publican executive committee was IN
creased from 10 to Is members, there
had never been a woman member Oh
that body, but the five new places
were filled by Chairman Hays with
women of national prominence. In
addition, Mrs. Harriet Taylor Up
ton, of Warren, o., was made wee
chairman of the executive committee,
and it is understood she will have
exclusive charge of the work OF that
committee as it relates to winning the
votes of women.
Republicans generally are stressng
the fact that of the 80 states which
have ratified the federal suffrage
amendment to date, rs were predoml-
nantly Republican, three evenly dlvld-
ed and only six are overwhelmingly
Democratic. Now both Democrats
and Republicans are bending every
enrgy to get the one additional state
necessary if women are to get SUI
frage under the federal amendment.