Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-19
HECKLE HAYS WITH
| SUFFRAGE QUERIES
Women Halt Address Here to
Ask Why Delaware Has
Not Ratified.

/ NOS
Nobody carries state legislature.
around in his hip pocket today" sale
VIE Hays, chairman of the republican
national committee. to suffrage hec-
klers who tackled him on the failure
of Delaware so far to ratify the won
an suffrage amendment. at meet
New Willard Hotel yesterday after
noon.
! You'd know that he added. III
you knew a little more about the
practical end of politics.
but ! have every hope that Della,
could he done In Delaware to bring
about ratification has been done ant
is being done by the republican ma
| tienal organization. I have an abid-
ling faith that the women of the whole
country will vote in the national cleo
tons this fall
do Not Let Him Get Started.
Before Mr. HAYS could get a run
! ming start on his address 70 tn" WON
an republicans Of the Dis'r.ct The
i hecilars We're at him. Miss Elsie Hi.l
Sta t"d the bail rolling.
what are the republicans going
to do to let the women Of the entire
country into the electoral vote. Chair
man Hays" she d0manded.
! William T. Galliher. chairman of the
Republican state committee of the
tient and let Mr.. Hays make his ad-
dress. Again Mr.. Hays started to
speak. but this time he was inter
rupted by Miss f'ue s.. White, who de-
| manded an answer from Mr.. Hays
without further delay. $50 that the
The red room Of the New Willard
| was crowded with women-probably
| 500 of them. They had come to hear
Mr.. Hays. They began to hiss the
| hecklers. representatives Of the
| ''woman's party" But the suffragis,s
kept right at 1t. third YOUNG woman
| taking up the refrain Of What are
you going to do about Delaware?"
Mr.. Hays here took part in the
| conversation himself.
For twenty years." he said. II have
worked for woman suffrage. Tina,
| is longer than most of these young
women could have possibly sought the
vote. for they are not old enough,
he added amid considerable laughter
/ at means much for the success OF
the republican cause" Mr.. Hays Went
| on. when in the middle of May, be-
| fore the national conventions. in
| Washington, where none of the mer
or women can vote. unfortunately
| you can have such meeting as this
| Asked ms to Delaware Again.
| Again he was INTERRUPTED with 9
demand that he say what was going
to happen in Delaware.
| THE republicans in California. il
! the other republican states where
! suffrage has been ratified. canno'
control the few men who are block.
| ing suffrage in the Delaware state
! legislature.
| 81 wish you would ask me-" he con
| tinued, why only six democratic
states have ratified the suffrage
| amendment and why six OF then
have turned it down. while not a re-
| publican state so far has defeated it
| I'VE are doing everything possible
!! to get Delaware to rstify. But W.
/ don't buy votes in republican poll
| ties. If Delaware does not ratif,
| then the suffrage amendment will b.
1 ratified by some other state to maxi
! the necessary thirty-siX before No
vember."
| To still another inquiry about Del
iaware. Cha irman Hays suggested tina
/ the suffragists go ask the republican
jof Delaware what they are going t
lido. They don't report to me-" h.
said.
Mr. Hays said that more men an
women are needed in politics toda
who are in politics for what they cal
jgiVc. rather than what they can get
+! The republican party. he said. was tn
lreal war party in the country Will
1.-THE United States was fighting Ger
many
1.-THE republican party kept calm.
to the party then in power. carry on
carry on" he said. The party il
ready now to work for the good o
the country"
| He urged the women to belong Il
party organization. saying he woult
lrather see them in the ranks of tn,
~ nj RI n a hot ~
The republican party. he said. doe
mot intend to establish separate or
iganization of republican women-the,
are to be welcomed into the ranks o
the republican organization of men.
! Women are conservative said Mr.
/ Hays. I'm nine-tenths of the familie
of the country the wage envelope Il
turned over to the woman Of tn,
house to spend and she runs the fami
| ly budget. / predict that the womel
will have the same stablizing effec
in politics as they have in the home.
Lincoln was never too good or to-
busy to take his part in the practica
| politics of the country. Theodore
Roosevelt. the night he was twenty
one years old. told his family he wa.
going to attend ward meeting. The,
/ said to him you'll only find buns
| srooms, etc He reDlied that if tina
was fact then the buns and tn,
| he intended to belong to it,
/ Pledge IL Puzzling to Her.
/ lie said that the republican part,
| promised the people honest. efficient
business government, reduction o
taxes. better relations between Iabo
land capital. and an Administered ton o
| law and order.
! How can you pledge the republican
party to these things when you can
| Delaware to vote for woman suffrage
interrupted Miss Hill.
THAT sounds as though you Nigh
be democrat" suggested Mr.. Hays
! Miss Hill replied with some heat tina
her father had been republican rep
| resentative from Connecticut TO
twenty-one years.
then. working to have the amendmen
ratified there?" retorted Mr.. Hays.
"You say, Mr.. Hays. that you know
| that woman suffrage will be ratified
by November" came from another par
of the hall-this time Mrs. Abby Scot
Baker-.'how do you know it,"
Il said 1 had an abiding faith tina
it would be ratified" replied Mr.. Hays
Il did not say that | knew it, for
don't"
At this point the kissing of the grea
majority Of the women became loud an,
angry voices were heard. Mr.. Hay.
pounded for order, saying. LET thes,
women get this thing out Of their sys
| tem." and urging the women to go t
Delaware to work on the state legisla
ture. II am more interested than yo,
are to get the vote for women he con
cluded. "Twenty-nine republican state.
have ratified already and six democrati,
states have turned it down.
| Urges Women to Contribute.
1 William IT Gallihar ,,rped tho MON, q,
to contribute to the fund which is beint
raised here to aid the republican cam
paign. He said it had been reported tina
| the democratic nartY was out after