Evening star., 1920-06-02
WOMEN DEMAND FULL SHARE
IN COUNCILS OF REPUBLICANS
Fur Flying Promised Unless They Get 1t.
$3.50 Division Is Suggested-Du
Pont Fights for Suffrage.

cent meeting of republican women in
Washington.
Committee Adopts Resolution.
Perhaps the national committee had
/ this IN mind when it adopted yesterday
afternoon by a unanimous vote a resolu-
tion urging the governors and legisla-
lures of republican states to aid in OBJ
tanning a sufficient number of states
to ratify the nineteenth amendment.
II was significant that Col. T. Cole
Delaware. where suffrage has been
having rough shedding, offered the
resolution. He caused considerable
amusement when he referred to the
suffrage amendment as "the eight
eenth amendment" the prohibition
minds of the politicians and others
who have gathered in Chicago for the
convention.
call for a ca-cus of woman lead
ers and delegates to the convention
has been issued by Miss Mary Gar
rett Hay chairman. to be held sun
day afternoon at the Congress Hotel.
1t is expected that the women will
outline the demands they will make
upon the convention at that meeting.
Wind-Up Campaigns Today.
Personally conducted wind-up cam
paigns are the order in Chicago today.
Gov. Lowden of Illinois is on the job
at the Blackstone Hote.. where he re-
ceives members OF the republican ma
tional committee and incoming delegates
to the convention.
Gen. Wood has announced that he
will be at the Wood headquarters in
Congress Hotel daily, from II until
o clock
Senator Hiram johnson will arrive
here Thursday to put pep into his con-
test for the nomination. His head
quarters occupy practically the entire
mezzanine floor of the Auditorium. To-
day a huge "Hiram johnson headquar-
ters" sign. at least $50 feet long and
printed in letters six feet high. was
heaved over the hote! entrance. 1t
eclpses anything else OF the kind in
Senator Knox of Pennsylvania. one Of
the most prominent dark horses men
toned. is expected to arrive here before
long.
There is also TO BE- gathering of re-
publican governors of states during the
their intention Of being here are Renck-
man of Rhode Island. Bartlett Of New
Hampshire. Davis of Idaho. Morrow aof
Kentucky. Campbell of Arizona. Good
rich OF Indiana. Shoup of Colorado.
Sleeper of Michigan. McKelvie Of Me-
braska. Harding of Iowa and Carey of
Wyoming. not to mention Lowden OF
Frank Hitchcock on the Job.
Down at the Coliseum annex. where
the republican national committee is
hearing the contests for seats in the
national convention. Frank Hitchcock
master politician of them all, is fire.
quent visitor. He has a keen interest
in a number of the contests from the
south and believes in being on the
job.
While the lobby of Congress Hotel
was crowded with republicans of all
sorts yesterday. in walked former
Senator James Hamilton Lewis. a
candidate for the democratic nomina-
ton for Vice President. He was on
his way, he explained. to address a
meeting of democratic women in the
hotel. and his subject was to be THE
League of Nations" He is still pin
ming his faith. he said. 20 the belief
that Charles Evans Hughes is to be
the republican nominee for President,
with Herbert Hoover as a probable
running mate.
Doubles have been cropping out
at the hearings for contested seats in
the republican convention. Senator
Hitchcock of Nebraska has one in the
person of B. H. Howell Of Omaha, Ne
braska. the senator's home town. Mr..
Howell is national committeeman
from the state. He not only looks
like Hitchcock, and has the same
build, butt he talks like him.
H. l.. Anderson of Jacksonville. Fla,
who has been trying for a score of
years to break up the old republican
organization in his state and is now
ton. is a "dead-ringer" for William
Gibbs McAdoo. and John T. King. ma
tional committeeman from Cofnecti-
cut and erstwhile Wood manager. II
you put light wig on him, would be
a second Joe" Tumulty.
Senator Penrose's Proxy.
A. X. Cassell holds the proxy In
the national committee for Senator
Penrose. although it was reported
before the committee began it's ses-
sions that John T. King would have
that honor. He has been a county
committeeman in Philadelphia for
years. He has never had a public
once but is known as power be-
hind the throne.
Edward F. Colladay. republican ma
tional committeeman for the District
of Columbia. on the opening day of
the contests for delegstes' seats. be-
sides representing the District of CO.
held the proyies for the national
committeemer of Kansas and Nevada.
Stending in the lobby of the Audi
toriun when Big Fat Sullivan, ma
rassad by in converss % ~ith a
friend. was democrat. .ru,Iiyan's
speech issues from his mouth with
a rich brogue. The democrat asked
the name of the big man who spoke
so pleasantly to the ear When he
was told that it was a republican
national committeeman he turned and
gazed after the retreating figure
Imagine" he said, "a man with
a brogue like that-a republican,"
Aaron Bradshaw's Record.
Aaron Il. ehshaw, leader of one of
the republican factions in the Dis
trict of Columbia, has been at the
political game for fifty-five years
though he doesn't look it His father
was a leader in the Underground
railroad" in ante-bellum days and
helped many a colored man to es-
cape from the slave states into the
north and Canada Mr.. Bradshaw's
influence with the colored repub-
licans. not only in the District but
in the states. is large.
Iron legs are at premium in Chi
ca.go. Everybody spends the day
standing around hotel lobbies and
corridors. exchanging the latest ru-
mors and manufacturing new The
only legitimate use that a newspaper
man had for carrying a walking stick
has been discovered at last. He needs
it here as 4 third leg on which to