The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-22
DEMOCRATS STEAL
 MARCH ON HAYS BY WOMEN DELEGATES
Republican Chieftain Now Busily Inquiring How Op- ponents Turned the
 Trick
By CLINTON W. GILBERT Copyright by Public Ledger Com-
 tooON

pany, 192o)
 Washington, May 21.- Special. )-Chairman Will H. Hays has started little, quiet inquiry to find out how his re- publican chieftians around the country have come to let the democrats steal a march upon them in sending women dele gates to the national conven- ton.
 Delegates and alternates together. the democrats are choosing four wom- en for San Francisco to every one the republicans send to Chicago, and the proportion is a little more favorable to the democrats in the new suffrage states of the east and midwest.
 MT. Hays composure was especially disturbed when what the republicans did in Indiana became known in Wash ington. There are thirty delegates from Indiana. Indiana plays politics a little closer to the chest than any other state and yet there is mary" a woman got one of the thirty prizes in Indiana. Among the alternate dele gates the Indiana republicans named eight women. Being an alternate dele gate is like winning the consolation prize at an auction bridge party. Send ing women as alternates lends point to the remark of the bitter feminists among the voters that woman in pol itics belongs to the ladies" auxil- iary."
 LIST IN INDIANA
 The democratic list from Indiana is Ia b1a ht1f is to contain women delegates as well as alternates, and this was Chairman Hays own state and MT. Hays has been winning the ladies right and left as If he has a private Blarney stone of his own welcoming them into the party, rejoicing over what this new accession of energy and intellilgehce meant to politics
 The chairman and his friends are studying what can be done about it. More than half the republican dele gates little more than 5o0 in fact, have been chosen. and in the list of these 500 received at republican head quarters in Washington are found only eighteen women's names as dele gates and ninety-three as alternates Fewer democratic delegates have been chosen or reported to Washington. Of the sos delegates names so far re- ceived here, forty are women and the democrats have chosensa sals3 eightT-six alternates.
 The republicans got their warn
 ming as to what the democrats
 were going to make the women at
 home in politics when the New
 York democrats held their state
 convention early fin April. The
 democrats of New York are n
 hard-bOiied lot. Tammany dOm-
 mates them and Tamany is no aft
 ernOon tea party. Yet. the motto
 of Tammany was "Pace Aux
 Dames."
 MT. Murphy put two women in the much sought places of delegates al large, two women among the big four, Nor did Tammany stop there. Among the ninety democratic delegates of New York eleven arew omen, and there are forty three women alternates. The New York republicans met about the same time and chose two women dele gates and nine alternates.
 NOT NOTICED BY HAYS It was a warning, but it was not mo- ticed by Chairman Hays. Homer sometimes mods, not Homer Cummings, but his ancient namesake, and Will Hays is no better than Homer. He has an eye for everything He can see a
 
 man living and travel further and fas- ter to head it off. But he missed the significance of two women members of the big four chosen by the hard boiled 1 boss of Tammany Hall It wasn't until some reporter called l MT. Hays attention tc the record of his | own 1ndiana-no women among the republican delegates, and only eight l women among the alternates-that MT 1 los nrtf fsaa1 delegates in republican headquarters here and compared it with the list of democrats some kind friend furnished to him.
 He found besides Indiana and New York, already set forth in this dispatch, such comparative figures ns this' Missouri, in the south. which has not been keen for suf-
 frage' Democrats, eight women delegates and seventeen women aI- ternates; republicans, three women delegates and twenty-five women
 aIternates. Minnesota, Democrats, four women delegates and nine
 women aIternates; republicans, one
 woman delegates and six women aIternates. andsAthe further Mir. Hays looked down the list the more he found of the same sort.
 The republicans are pondering what | can be done about it. The first idea is | to go around among the republican | men delegates who have women alter 1 mates and persuade them to let the 1 women sit in their places at Chicago. | A good deal of this will be done, but | obviously the democrats have the ad- here.
 MAY YIELD PLACES If the two parties get to rivaling | each other as to how many women | shall actually sit on the floor of the l convention and vote for the nominees {; for President, the democrats can get | to persuading men delegates to forego | the pleasure of acting and let thei, | alternates act. And they have | more women alternates than the re- publicans.
 Many 9 postoffice on papAr will go | to the man delegates who gallantly | sacrifices himself to his party and | gives his woman alternate his seat.
 The democrats will probably fea- ture Mrs. Peter Oleson of Claguet, Minn., who made n hit here nt the Jackson Day dinner in their con vention. She may he sort of woman keynoter or make lead ing nominating speech, hut she fs I.A zfu sx.