Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-09
WOMEN DEMAND $3.50
OF REPUBLICAN LOAF
Suffragists Keep in Strong Politi-
cal Limelight at Chicago
Convention.

Chicago, June o.-Women, still in their
political swaddling clothes, are here
demanding full-hedged rights.
Men, veterans of many political wars,
are insisting that equal suffrage doesn't
mean equal representation.
There is heap of trouble stored up
in these conflicting views. The show
down has not come yet.
Seventeen million women will vote for
President this year, regardless of whether
nationwide suffrage becomes effective.
The ratification of only one more
State Legislature is necessary to give all
American women of voting age the right
to vote in November.
Eleven million women will be added
to the number of Presidential voters if
suffrage by Federal amendment is OBJ
tanned by them.
Republican and Democratic lenders
are out to capture ms many of those
2S000,0 600 new votes as possible. Each
party is attempting to convince the
women that they should align with it.
But with the delegates to the Republi-
can National Convention there is a de-
cided indisposition To sacrifice places
they have held in past conventions to the
feminine votes.
At the demand of Republican women
other important committees be on the
tifty-fifty basis, the men delegates have
baked
Equal rights they have told the
women, means equal opportunities. If
thcv want places on the national COM
mittee or elsewhere they must 90 out in
the States and fight for election, just as
the men do Places are not going to be
given to them
The convention floor, ms we'll as the
personnel of committees, is convincing
proof that the women have an uphill
fight ahead Of them TO get equal repre-
scntation' even after they have equal
suffrage.
There are moro than 9S2 delegates to
the National Convention and an equal
number OF alternates, vet there are only
rs women delegates and l2i alternates
But the women are making them |
selves heard They are creating more
concern than all the men and other Gle |
mcnts Of the convention put together.
With political headquarters, with march /
ing clubs, with picket lines and with teas |
they are as active as the seasoned war
horses Of politics. There are radical /
elements and conservative clements among |
the women Just as with the mon For |
example, across the street from the /
Coliseum IN an cx-saloon are the militant |
Suifragists Next door to them arc the /
headquartcrs az the Irish Republic" /
with women standing on the sidewalk /
in front dealing out copies Of President /
De Valera S speech to all passers-by.
Little further on arc the headquarters /
Of the conscientious oblectors in the /
war with placards demanding amnesty /
for 800 political prisoners. That IS /
known as Radical Row
But as the Blackstone Hotel, one Of
the most fashionable in Chicago and at
the Congress Hotel. there is an entirely
different scene. Women. arc vying with
each other there just as keenly but they
are attempting TO win recognition for
their sex in a moro conventional way
Feminine boosters Of the various Presi-
Dental candidates are trying to win sup
port for their various candidates by
bringing a touch Of home life into the
headquarters
At the Harding headquarters in the
Congress Hotel large red apples are be-
ng given away. At the Lowden head
quarters the women sing songs. AT the
" God headquarters red, blue and green
Gathers arc run through the buttonholes
II coat lapels by attractive young women
In the spacious, ornate headquarters Of
lie anti-suftragsts at the Blackstone
ea is served
Women even are taking the place Of
he county seat silver cornet band
Tins morning the Harrington has }
aides band uniformed in gray with a
military cape Of red silk lining, stood
outside the Coliseum and played as the
delegates entered. Each girl had one or
more Wood feathers in her cap.
l. 4. l. Fl.
quarters of the National Woman Party :
came l25 picketers, each carrying an &
banner OF purple white and
,old Cameras clicked and the movie
nen reeled off wards Of ceiluloid Police
nen held up street car, motortrck and :
axicab traffic while the women paraded
,cross. Many OF these same women had
)een arrested in Washington for 'ob-
tructing traffic when they attempted !
o picket the White House.
Before the parade Of suffragists started :
oday, Miss Mabel Vernon. Of Delaware,
old her loyal troops that if any police !
nan ordered them to move on to stand
till They were further instructed ;
Don't give up your banners. But the
policeman showed no disposition to arrest
hem. and some Of the leaders arc fearful ,
hat it Is going to be case of peaceful ,
ilCketIng-
Anticipating arrests, pickets had their
,ictures taken in prison garb several
lays ago, so that they would be ready for
distribution Immediately Some OF them
esterday prevailed upon policemen to
axe them by the arm as though leading /
hem to the patrol wagon.
There was one lone Hoover picket
cross the street from the Coliseum to-
ay A woman stood on the porch of an
Id house turning placards that praised
he work of Herbert Hoover