The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-08
WOMEN TELL OF PLANS FOR PARTY
 AT BIG DINNER
Democratic Women Have Message For Their
 Party.

As chairman of the Woman's s .Bu- -'eau, Democratic National Commit tee, Mrs. George Bass was asked to present the Message of the Demo cratic Women to the Party at the Jefferson Day banquet in New York City. In a speech that was received with enthusiasm, Mrs Bass said:
 'Unprecendented though 1t be, it is after all, fitting that the first official message of the Democratic women to their party leaders should be communicated to them at a celebra- ton of the birthday of the man who, more than any other statesman of the new democracy, saw the vision of government by the people, and to whom the people meant all, without distinction as to class or station. And who can doubt that had he been able to giirn pse the twentieth century conditions of life and the evolution of the seff-conEained family unit into it's individual elements, each with it's own responsibilities, privileges and duties in the community, the com lnonwea1th and the nation, he would have been the first to count women as people and to ask for them all their civil and political rights, the first to enlist them in that service to their country wfdch is, after all, the measure of the value of citizenship
 Ideals of Cdtizens71ip.
 %9The first part of the message I bring to you is this, that the great majority of the women of this coun- try are coming into their full citizen ship with a. high sense of public duty. They are not interested in political parties as the dispensers of patron age, and party lines based only on theories of government or even on creddta.bIe performances away back in the middle Of the last century do not attract them Their question is as 10 what party, if any, is doing the worlds work today2 What party is most aware of all the currents and cross currents in all the social and industrial and economic realms of activity? What party most shows a quickened consciousness of human values, with the desire and the cour- age to place them above all purely material considerations
 What party Can answer these questions with 3, list of achievements unparalleled in the legislative annals of this country? / The Democratic party
 What party would have helped 10 make the peace of the world and would have helped to keep that peace
 
 Democratic party
 'fIn so far my message is answered and answered satisfactorily Onl thai basis the women voters of the coun- try voted almost unanimously to re- turn the Democratic party to power in 1916, and on the question of the peace of inc world yet unInade but s5hameless1y betrayed In the Senate o4 the United States, We shall go to ir us again, with a Congress responsive 10 the Will of the people
 -TThe next part of my message is to tell you that the women, all though not so. responsive to the party call based on hered1ty, environment or family interest as the men, st1I do understand the value of organ, ized effort and teamwork They ars practical, and as homemakers ana homekeepers and child rearers havi had to be practical for uncountel generations They have infinite pa tience in detail and unstintesI capa city for work They have developed a marvellous aptitude for organization during their club and sunrage worl in the past two decades, and whel that was put to the service of thei country during the war, the treasury the war bureaus, the food service, thu Red Cross divisions and the nationa defense councils all bear testimony t their unparalleled vaiue- The Demo cratic party, nationally, knows al this, and has offered to this new cleo torate the fullest partnership in part councils, party management am party methods of campaign Demo crats are not afraid of what womel will bring to the party and have n sinister designs to conceal fron them.
 The final part of my message i that the women of America, of thi our part of it. have brave souls an clear vision They are unafraid- The realize that the future holds bot promise and menace in it's proble n but they are not dismayed- l use tn word America adyisedly. beeaUs there is a small group in this cou1 try just now. part of them in tE United States Senate, and all of thel members of the Republican part, who are trying to copyright tha word irrespective of the other raT idly growing American nations roun about Us. and regardless of all th rest of us to whom Americanis1 means something larger, finer .an greater than the small. selfish ar parochial definition they are tryin to give it.
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 And the last word, of this nece: sarily briefly expressed message
 that the women just coming int wider public helpfulness put no Iimi 10 their willingness for service The know that the cables binding us other nations cannot be cut, that tf electric currents cannot be unhal messed, nor the ships of the air pulle to the earth again. The troubles the world are our troubles. I spea for the uncounted thousands of w men when I say that we believe tn the Democratic party offers us u great opportunity for that service V wish to give. We have found in great leadership, great vision, al we are yours-if you live up to ] traditions. to> its deeds and to u needs of the new world which V must construct on the ruins of u old one, which, as General S1nu said at the Peace Conference,
 dead about us and so should be de; within nS. ''