Indiana daily times., 1920-06-29

coast who had been fooling men in poll
tics until he had grown gray as a fox,
put up a neas-1ittle game by which he
intended TO get all the best seats in the
convention hall for the men and keep
the women In the background.
He put down his wires with skill and
confidence and when he had everything
set pulled away and found local
woman had been before him and copped
off every choice seat for a woman.
But I know better instances than that.
have seen here some OF the most ac-
complished artists in political himham
talk to bunch Of women for half an
hour and apparently make the right i'm
preston and go away and then I have
heard the women talk about him and !
wouldn't for big money be In that fakers
/ place.
They tore all his tricks to pieces and
/ hung them on the fence and they did it
with merciless sarcasm that 10 tell you
the truth made me shudder.
I don't want any Of them turning that
kind Of scalpel on me. believe me.
There are thirty eight women dele
/ gates and two or three hundred women
alternates in this convention, and I don't
know why or how. being unschooled in
these mysteries. but they certainly do
hsve the women In the republican con
vention beaten several ways for sunday
There's no comparison.
At Chicago the women always seemed
/ TO be scared about something, I don't
know what. being in a strange place, or
too many millionnires. maybe, or all that
d IN all
But you can bet the women here aren't
scared here it's the other way about.
They've got the men ratified and guess
ing what's going TO happen next, and no
wonder
THEY GET WHAT
THEY co AFTER.
Here the women settled down right on
the start for certain things they wanted
in the platform.
Wise business.
They wanted 10 get the party nailed
hard and fast TO a program Of social
reform laws to protect children, to fur
: ther education, to reduce the cost of
living. to protect working women. to i'm
/ prove the public health and that sort OF
thing.
So they went after these reforms and
] never let up unIll Iney ROL lHtLu
Now. you see that's the kind Of
platform they wanted. and If 1t isn't
million times better than the old punk
stun men have been feeding to superior
male voters these forty years. I'm clam.
/ So here's one thing about having
women in this game.
/ Brass tacks-see? Cut out the CUFF
and get something that has meaning
And now, here's another
! A good many folks thought or said
| they thought that when women got into
| politics they would he just another lot
Of reactionaries and God knows we don't
need any more than we've got.
/ Well come to now and get hold Of
the facts
/ SO far anyway the women have shown
themselves a heap sight more radical
than the men more radical, more prac-
| teal more direct and landing what they
wanted every clip.
So far they have shown so much more
Of natural good sense and wit and pep
and the art of getting things done that
| If this democratic platform bears out Its
promise and comes anywhere near hit
| ting the democratic opportunity 1t will
| be partly due TO the new spirit the
We men have brought along.
There Is SO much of novelty about all
/ this that even the old stagers are be-
/ ginning to wonder what a national con
vention will be like four years hence.
when probably so per cent of the dele
gates will be women.