Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-09

| show on earth that causes B9rntIm q
Bailey 4 Jealous quatm, il looks as though
the male and female of the species are
lined up about equally. For 1t must be
confessed that the women delegates 10
the Republican National Convention
are not much better off than the men.
| Very few of them know what they are
here for or what they arc expected to do.
Mrs Collie 4 Morgan of Kansas laugh
ingly told me that she had read IN a news
paper that she was to be assistant secre-
tary of the convention, but what that inn
piled the good Lord only knows The chief
complaint of the women 5 camp seems to
be that the men wont take the dear ladies
seriously. They want to frivol with us.
declared Mrs. Amanda Miller. of the
Nomen's National Committee. why
they even want to frivol with Mary Gar
ret Hay
It's a iov to watch Mrs Mcdill McCor-
mick at work. though. The cool. poised
confidence Of her. tho pTacticed hand with
which she is helping shape platform planks
affecting women's interests, the neat
little way in which she slips something
over right under the noses Of the men,
makes YOU throw your hat in the ring for
women in politics Without claiming to hc
. POLITICAL prophet il looks as though the
ble t4d0A - t'bAiAl'asttiS N0biA ~ a
serious Jolt from quarters which they have
been treating lightly and patting on its
shoulders and admonishing, now little
girl you run home to your babies and
leave these horrid, dirty politics to papa
WOMEN pARpED.
But there's no denying that the real
hot stuff Of the convention is taking place
behind the closed doors that bear big
no women allowed sign. The destiny
of the nations. as the spread eagle orator
refers to it, is being decided by little
handful Of men. The rest of the crowd
that swarIns IN and down Michigan ave
nue and settles in the lobbies Of the
Congress and Auditorium is Just the I
audience, the big noise. the gullble, /
gum chewing. widc-eycd public.
just why a political convention should I
be a dead ringer for 4 circus nobody has /
ever satisfactorily explained, but II Is, 1
and the del rgatcs and the altcrnatcs and I
the visitors and even the candidates them /
selves go there with tho same spirit with /
which small boys and girls attend a Wild I
west show There the dust and the heat /
and the crowds and the talk that can show
the tower Of Babel a thing or two; there's
the poor. oyerworkcd non-partisan brass
band that escorts each delegation from
the railroad station and warns the cookies
Of the colored delegates hearts and sets
their feet TO moving like a Methodist
revival; there the same hair raising thrill
when some fayorite son does neat somer-
Sault and lands on his feet on party
chosen plank
The beautiful lady" with thc golden
wig and the pink satin tights may be the
father Of 81 \ and need a shave, but what 5
the odds Few Of the delegates are much
more familiar with the real beliefs, ideals
and policies Of the man they're there TO
vote for.
But there are some beautiful, dignifed
as, for instance when YOU see
our own and only Chauncey Depcw visit
ing the various headquarters, or rather
when you catch q glimpse Of his venerable
head above the admirng throng that sur
round him, with what supe rlative artistry
he handles q convention crowd, with what
/ master hand he stirs up the animals.