Americus times-recorder., 1920-06-25
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WOMEN TURN TO
The DEMOCRATS
Big Delegation Reaches
Frisco With High
Hopes
By GERTRUDE M. PRICE,
N E. A. Staff Correspondent.

Dy NGN NOLG W. NlSAs
N E. A. Staff Corr espondent.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 25.-The
social welfare of the nation is the
definite aim of women delegates to
to the 1920 National Democratic
Convention.
And there are 100 women delegates
to the Democratic convention as
against 26 in the G. o. P. convention.
Calling this conclave the greatest
opportunity in political history for
progressive American womanhood,
picked feminine leaders from all
sections of the United States got
on the job early and received a typ
ically California welcome from party
chiefs.
Woman's Program.
Women delegates are here with
a definite program. Their aims are
First-Make the Democratic
platform thoroughly and progress
sively expressive of woman's needs.
Second-To help nominate
candidate for president who can
be rightly called friend of equal
suffrage.
Third-To make a valiant should
er-to-shoulder campaign for the
interests of the child and the pro-
lection of the child-bearer of the
nation.
Fourth-To demonstrate to the
womanhood of the country and to
the the public-at-large that the
Democratic party is the open door
through which woman can most eff
fectively win service from their
government.
Authority for this general pro-
gram is Mrs. Geo. Bass, Chicago
chairman of the Woman's Bureau of
the Democratic National Committee,
a foremost leader in the ranks of
Democratic women, with headquar-
ters at the Palace Hotel.
"5O-50'', POLICY.
Her claim that the Democratic
party is the best medium through
which the women of the nation may
attain their aims, is backed by the
actual $3.50 policy which the men
of the party have accepted.
There will be 100 women dele
gates on the floor of the convention,
$50 women afternates, woman from
every state on the national commit
tee, and II women members of the
national executive committee to 10
for the G. o. P.
In all there will be in the neigh
borhood of at least 800 women at
the convention, each doing definite
work for the advancement of wo-
mans interests.
Speaking of the remarkable con-
trast between the way in which the
two parties are meeting the women
of the nation, Mrs. Bass said:
DAILY, hourly, by letter and by
telegram, am receiving word from
good Republican women, from all
sections of the country, who voice
their disappointment and chagrln
over the cold-shoulder given women
and women's interests at Chicago by
the G. o. P. old Guard"
Not Party Bound.
ITO say that Republican women
are disabreeably surprised and
thoroughly disheartened with the
party they had espoused and through
which they had hoped to gain GER
tain definite progress for all woman
hood, is to put It mildly.
81 have no hesitancy IN saying !
believe a majority of the women OF
the nation are now ready to vote
for a Democratic candidate Tor
president regardless of their rarty
affiliation, if one be placed In noml-
nation worthy of their faith.
"There will be very large lnde-
pendent woman vote in the nation
this year, l think.
"There are thousands and thou
sands of women, with the ballot,
who are not interested in any party
particularly, who are ready to sup
port a man whom they have reason
to think is unafraid to express his
views and to stand on concrete
and progressive platform.
"The Republican convention, Just
closed, has shown to women Oh
America that not a single construc-
tive idea was promulgated IN this
gathering. H..
U ,men of all sections of the coun-
trv are alive to the fact that the
Republican party has tied their hands
through congress of our president
s. that not even peace could be de-
clared in the land.
"Women believe in progress, IN
constructive policies"