The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-05-27
REPUBLICAN WOMEN
PEEVED
See G. o. P. Plot to Exclude Them
From the Chicago Convention.

The following dispatch to the Mis-
souri, State Journal from Joplin in
dicates the Missouri Republicans
may have some trouble keeping the
women members of the party i'll
line:
Republican women attending the
Congress OF the League of Women
Voters, led by Mrs. w. A. Swan, of
Joplin, one of eight delegates-at-
large to the Republican National
| Convention, held conferences of in
dignation upon the receipt of infor-
nation that the two women delegates
at-large from Missouri might be re-
fused seats in the national conven-
| ton
| The women sensed in the situation
which has developed deep laid plot
engineered by the men politicians OF
the Republican organization in Mis-
souri, to eliminate them, and they an
nounced their determination to make
a fight at Chicago for representation
on the delegation.
The Republican State Convention
May q i'll Kansas City, as is generally
known. elected eight delegates-at-
large, two of whom were women and
one a negro man, each to have halt
a vote. This action was taken in
spite OF the fact that the call of the
| Republican National Committee stip-
ulated that only four delegates-at-
large should be elected, and in spite
of letter from Chairman Hays OF
the National Committee to w. l..
Cole, chairman OF the State Commit
tee. telling him that it would be im-
possible to seat double delegations
in the national convention and di-
recting him TO use his influence to
prevent the election of double del
egation in Missouri. Cole opposed
the election of the double delegation,
but was overruled through the intlu-
encc OF National Committeeman
Babler and others.
Announcement came Saturday
from the Arrangements Committee
of International committee that only
four egates-at-large would be
seated. A group of the more ex-
perienced women Republicans. here
have reached the conclusion that the
party leaders had full knowledge that
the complete delegation would not
be seated and that they SO framed the
State convention rules that only men
Republicans, connected with the Of
ganization, would be seated and that
while the state organization would
seemingly favor the women by CIV
ing them two places, on the delega-
ton, they knew that the two women
would not be seated.
1t is the expectation that the or
ganization will attempt to have seat
ed the four delegates first elected Dy
the State convention. ms Would
seat Senator Spencer, Cole, Walter :.
Dickey OF Kansas City and Edward
W. Foristel of St. Louis. 1t would
eliminate Congressman Dyer, Mrs.
Swan, Mrs. Alice Curtce, Meyer
Wing of Greenville and DR.. j. X. "A.
Grassland OF St. Joseph, a negro.
Those who would be seated under
this plan would be the four that the
organization really wants seated.
The four eliminated as delegates
would be alternates.
Mrs. Swan told newspaper cor
respondent that the women would
not sit idly by and be eliminated.
I'VE are having a hard enough
time as it is,' she said. The Repub-
lican party has not permitted the
women-the participation i'll at
fairs that the Democratic party has.
One thing is certain, if the men ke-
publicans, the organization Republi-
cans, attempt to prevent us from
having representation on the delega-
the party will lose the
women vote in Missouri.
when the Missouri delegation
meets, we women are going to be on
hand and l am confident by the time
we get through the men will have
discovered that we were there.
The women proposed i'll Kansas
City that they should be given one
fourth the delegates-at-large. They
did not care whether that was one III
iour or two in eight. The men de-
cided the latter. Now if they pro-
pose to cut us out, we simply are not
going to stand for it.
The method of selecting the del
egates-at-large, as reported by the
Rules Committee, was that first five
men should be selected, then two
women and then a negro. Now IT 1t
is proposed, as we have been in
formed it will be, that the first four
elected will be seated, we will be
and will have seats only
as alternates, without vote in the
proceedings.
IF the men want to drive the wo-
men out of the Republican party they
can do it by following that system.
II has been hard enough for loyal Re-
publican women to hold in line the
ones in the face of the lib
rral representation given women by
the Democrats. They certainly are
not going to make it more diff
cult"