New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-06
W omen Sit i'm
Party Council
For First Time
Twelve National Committee
Members Give Up Seats
to Those of Other Sex
From Respective States
Miss Hay Takes Part
Meet With the Republican
Leaders To-day to Talk
Over Platform Planks
Special Dispatch 10 the 7ribun,

CHICAGO, June Republican wom-
en- know to-day, for the first time,
what it is like to sit on the national
committed They have tasted the joy
of being one of the "elcct"; they have
sampled the power that they hope is to
be theirs before the convention is over
and they had say-so in the contest
hearing of the Southern states, even if
they had it by proxy
Twelve members of the rational
committee gave up their seats to wom-
en- leaders from their respective states
Mrs. Florence &. Porter, of California,
occupied the seat Of Committeeman
Croker; Miss Mary Garrett Hay that
of Parson, of New York; Mrs Jose
phine Corliss Preston that of Perkins,
from Washington; Mrs. Vennona r..
Swan that of Committeeman Babler, of
Missouri; Mrs. James S. Bealing that
of Littleton, of Tenncssee; Mrs. S. S.
Bcggs that Of Stanley. of Kansas, and
Mrs. John G.. South that of Fert, of
Kentucky.
Deep in Conferences
Other committeeman who gave the
wome their places were Committee
Ohio; Highland, of Virginia; Adams, Of
Iowa; Howell, of Nebraska; Williams,
or Oregon; Du Pont of Delaware, and
Keeling, of Indiana.
Besides those seated in the national
committee, women leaders who visited
the national committee were Mrs.
Fletcher Dobyns. Mrs Margaret Hill
McCarter, of Kansas; Mrs Robert
Burdettc. of California;: Mrs. James
Dewitt, of Iowa; Mrs. Frank Dodson, of
Iowa; Mrs. George W. Reinecke and
Mrs. Medill Mccormick.
With the arrival Of Mrs. John
Glover South, chairman Of the national
committee, woman's division. to-day,
woman leaders were noticeably absent
from Presidential row and the hotel
Hobbies. They were deep in confer
ences. Shortly after her arrival, Mrs.
South went into conference with Alvin
T. Hcrt and Chairman Will Hays. The
subject of their conference was the
future party organization, it is under
stood.
Mrs. South and Miss Hay. it is no
ticed, follow different methods in their
fight to obtain repres entation of
women in the party councils and on
the national committee
IL am sure the men will be fair and
just, Sdld MIS-. South TINS morning
IN her rooms at the Congress, as she
took off her smart blue sailor hat and
adjusted her mannish collar.
"They always have been fair to us"
She declined to make other statements
until after her conferences with the
men Mrs. South methods, it might
he pointed out, are of the wheedltng.
Southern type.
Important Meetings To-day
She is just as eager for women to
play prominent part in the party or
ganlzation as representative of the
great new electorate as is Miss Hav,
who has announced freely her opinions
and her demands Then, too. Miss Hay
plans to leave the party organization at
the close OF the convention. and can af-
! ford to antagonize the men if she
wishes to do so.
To- morrow will be the big conference
day for the women. State chairmen
and members of the national executive
committee will meet with Mrs. South
and Miss Hay at 2 o'clock. The future
organization of the states will be dis
cr3sed and an effort made to secure
similar organization in all the states.
A general conference will be held at 9
o'clock, when the platform will be CON
sldered and the womens blanks dis
cussed.