Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-27
big TEN A new
FACTOR IN i. s..
POLITICS In 1920.
League of Women Vot-
ers Feared By Both
Parties
BY RUTH E. FINNEY.

CHICAGO, Feb. 27.-Look out for
the BIG TEN in the next presidential
electiont
They are the all-powerful board of
directors of the New League of Wo-
men Voters, which was the outgrowth
of the National Woman Suffrage as
sociation at its 51st and last annual
convention.
The suffrage association automatic
ally dies with the ratification of the
Susan B. Anthony amendment. The
new league represents 20,000,000 po-
tential woman votes.
Parties Feared Organization
The organization of this league in
to regions, state and sub-state divls-
ions creates a machine of formidable
strength. There is no doubt but that
the two great parties of the country
feared the formation of an active Wo-
mans Party. In fact there were we'll
founded rumors of just such thing.
In her speech at the victory BAN
quet, Mrs. Peter Olsen of Minnesota,
an active Democrat, named Carrie
Chapman Gait, president of the Ma
tional Woman Suffrage Association,
as "a stateswoman capable of carry
ing the Office of president of the
United States" Many such refer
ences to Mrs. Gait were made in va
rious speeches and even in party eau
cuses.
But as soon as Republican and
Democratic women, prodded and guild
ed by the men CT their parties, began
fighting to put their representatives
in the executive offices of the new
organization any dream of sex party
went smash.
Given Unlimited Power.
The plan of the League of Wo-
man Voters as finally adopted places
almost unlimited power in the hands
of 10 women. These 10 women are
seven regional directors and three di-
rectors-at-large.
The seven regions with the women
directors elected are as follows:
Region New England States.
Director, Miss Katherine Luddington,
of Connecticut.
Region u.-New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Maryland and Della
ware. Mrs. F. Louis Slade, of New
York. ~ y,
Region III.-Virginia, District of
Columbia. North Carolina South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida,
Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee.
Miss Della Dortch, of Tennessee.
Region IV.-Michigan, Ohio, In
diana, Kentucky, Illinois, West Vir-
ginia and Wisconsin. Miss Elizabeth
Hauser, of Ohio.
Region Minnesota, Iowa, North
Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and
Montana. Mrs. James Page, of Min
Region VI-Nebraska, Kansas,
Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma,
Texas. Arkansas and Missouri. Mrs.
George Geilhorn, of Missouri.
Region VIT.-Washington, Oregon,
Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and
California. Mrs. C. B. Simmons, of
Oregon.
The Directors at Large.
Directors at large:
Mrs. Richard Edwards, of Indiana,
Mrs. Solon Jacobs, of Alabama, and
Mrs. Maud Wood Park, of Boston.
Mrs. Jacobs, better known as Patty
Jacobs, director-a large, and Miss
Dortch, director of Region No. 3, are
ardentlv active Democrats. Mrs.
Park. also director-at-large, and who
was elected by the 10 directors as
chairman of the league, is claimed by
the Republicans, though she has re-
fused to take a political stand pub
Iiclv. 1t is conceded at Democratic
headquarters, however, that Mrs:
Wood and most of the other regional
directors will come out as strong Re
publicans once the presidential fight
starts.
The league endorsed the League of
Nations without reservations, which IS
a distinct triumph for Mrs. George
Bass, chairman of the Democratic Wo-