Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-07-03

cap to the women.
Every single thing that the womt
asks Of the party has been done exac
The platform makers followed copy to
the letter.
They had the pattern on the table. laid
the material on the pattern, pinned them
carefully together, and cut according to
directions.
What sort of garment it is that they
made time, the great wearer Of costumes,
will some day be ready to show US.
And in the meantime the democratic
convention yesterday. and especially the
women members OF it, went laughing and
crying mad when the platform plank
about the women and their interests was
read
Ratification OF the 18th amendment pro-
hibition Of child labor, appropriations for
the childrens' bureau, adequate appropria-
tions for the woman'S bureau in the de-
partment of labor, increase OF teachers
salaries, re-estabhshment Of joint federal
and state employment service of women's
departments, under the direction of quail
fed women, reclassihcation of federal
civil service, free from discrimination on
the grounds of sex, full representation
of women on all commissions dealing with
all women's work OF women's interests
what more can you ask.
What more could the women Of Amer
lea dream of even trying to get.
/ don't think all the men in the con-
venti0n are exactly crazy about this wom-
an suffrage plank and all that went with
lt--bnt they followed the program made
in the platform committee and followed 1t
like good boys without even a murmur
Of protest
REMINDED OF
OLD RHYME.
l couldn't look at some Of the old
fashioned states and their delegation
those delegations which have all through
the convention sat so morosely by when
ever any woman spoke or any man spoke
Of privileges for women-without think
Ing Of that unregenerate rhyme about the
"Cassowary on the shores OF Timbuctoo,
who gobbled up the missionary skin and
bone and hymn book, too"
! wonder IL the missionary agreed with
the Cassowary after he was down and
what happened really to the hymn book
In the terrific demonstration that fol-
lowed the reading Of the suffrage plank
sons states hes.tated a little, but all
tosned-excep the state OF North Carolina.
The North Carolina banner never
budged and the North Carolina delegates
sat like sad pilgrims, deaf and dumb and
blind in a land OF perfect strangers.
HYsTERIA OF
<ATTLE's END.
The women on the platform and those
in Seraphim row. high above the plat
form. laughed and cried and Rugged each
other and waved their handkerchiefs and
cheered nice proper feminine cheers-they
held a jollidcation here in San Francisco
toniEht-ths women who have fought so
long and SO hard for equal party repre-
senation,
The party believes, OF course. that they
have secured the election of their csndi-
date this fall by taking the women In.
not half heartsdly and apologetically as
the republicans, In a Pickwickian sense,
pretanded TO do, but entirely and with no
reservations whatever.
I wonder IL the democrats are right
wonder If these women OF America
will all turn into democrats over night.
even those who have been born and bred
in the briar patch OF republicanism, just
because the leaders Of the democratic
party were clever enough to see a great
chance and take advantage OF It.
INTERESTING QUESTION
RAISED ITS HEAD.
WIN women vote next November, not
al individuals-but as women?
What an interesting question.
Bryan Is today the idol OF the con-
ventiou.
Old enemies or no old enemies, old
scores or new ones, they are all forgot
ten in the Wild rush to the Bryan ban
ner OF prohibition, and that rush was
led without any question Of doubt by
the women delegates and the women
guests and alternates and spectators.
Bryan spoke not at all for men and
all for women and for the home
he didn't make the slightest pretense
OF trying to please the mccullough. OF
course, he was shrewd enough to so in
troduce his argument 40 TO give very
strong suggestion TO the male delegates
that they had better stand by prohIbi-
ton II they knew on which side their
bread was buttered as far as the voting
democracy was going to be concerned
Just as soon as that nineteenth amend
ment is ratified.
SAYS MEN
TOOK HINT.
The men took the hint and today in
convention circles here in San Francisco
there were not wanting those who were
WILING 10 say uFQ swear ana VOW Una I
IL Bryan wanted to run for president on
a prohibition ticket with the speech he
made at the convention yesterday for a
platform and nothing else behind him
but the wOmen's vote-he would win
Nobody at the convention cared snap
for Ireland or the Irish question after all
the talk Of a bolt of the I1tsh delegates.
And two very good speakers-returned
overseas soldiers who tried to speak on
some sort Of provision for sick and dis
abled soldiers-could not even get a
respectful hearing.
Nobody was against them, but every
body was quite plainly bored by even
a passing reference to Chateau Thierry
and the bloody fields OF Belleau Wood
I wonder If the Irish who were not at
the convention and the soldiers who
were not there either, but who were in
France-will forget as easily as all that
Palace Aux Danes gentlemen, this is
ladies' day and perhaps we have to take
one step at a time before we can learn