Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-07-01
WAS RED LETTER
DAY FOR WOMEN
Says Dorothy Dix of June 49,
When Democrats Espoused
Suffrage.
special Dispatch TO Every Evening
by Dorothy Dix.

Copyright. 1920. by Wheeler Syndicate. Inc
San Francisco, Calf, July 1.-The first
woman ever 10 speak on the platform OF 9
Democratic National Convention offered
a resolution expressing the sympathy OF
the women of her party with Mrs. Wilson
and commencing her for the wifcly devo,
tion with which she nursed her husband
through his long illness.
And vet-Were there or were there not
people who feared TO give women the bal
lot because they thought it would make
them unwomanlv
The resolutions committee had beer
dragging its tedious length along yester.
day when suddenly little woman In the
California delegation rose TO her feet and
made her tribute 10 the first lady of the
land. Instantly from all over the house
there were cries of Go to the platform.
And when she went, bhlshing very much
and looking very timid She received trib-
ute that shook the afters of the audi
torium. For her resolution was the touch
Of nature that made the whole world kin,
and that showed that, politics or no poll
tics, women are just wives and mothers
where n sick man is concerned. be he fac
tory hand or president Of the United
States.
Also, perhaps il was comforting to some
Of the men present 20 find out that their
maria $ politics would never interfere with
her ministrations at their bedsides when
they had a sick headache and believed
they were dying.
And il was womnn's day at the con-
vention, any how Mr. Cummings set
the ball rolling by reading at the very
opening of the session telegram he had
indicted 20 the governor of Tennessee, in
which in the name of the Democratic Ma
fional Convention assembled, he congratu-
lated the Southern executive upon having
called a special session of the Legislature
20 ratify the suffrage amendment. The
convention applauded this message to the
echo and urged that it be dispatched at
once.
speech accepting the permanent chair
Inanship Of the convention, Senator Rob
inson struck another chord in the pean
uf praise and adulation that the conven-
tion was offering up TO women Said the
senator, in his deepest and most persua-
sive tones: "lt Is more significant that
the movement in favor of universal suf-
frage for women and the movement for
universal peace should be coincident
Women are for peace. Give them the
vote and they will vote for peace. There
fore Tennessee and North Carolina should
race with each other 10 see which shall be
the first To ratify the suffrage amendment
and thus have the privilege of giving TO
our country this enormous women's vote
Tor women want the League of Nations
that will secure world peace and they will
vote for it." And the convention rose
90 it's feet and men threw up their hats
and yelled for woman suffrage just as If
they hadn't been fighting IL for years and
wears Yes ms'am, I'm telling you the
honest 10 goodness truth The Demo
cratic convention hurrahed itself black in
the face in it's chortling Joy over the pros
pect Of women getting the vote.
OF course. it's mighty sudden; this thing
of politics falling so ardently in love with
us, and it's being 80 near along about cleo
ton time makes us little suspicious of
their motives, but we women who have
worked 80 long for the rights of citizen
ship are like an old maid when she begins
10 get anxious. We aren't looking any
gift horses in the mouth. We take what is
offered 10 us and are thankful for it, But
| admit that a. looked at the cheer ing
throng, banners waving, handkerchiefs
fluttering white signals of victory, hands
clapping, bands playing, and realized that
this was indeed the end of the long long
srail along which we suffragis,s have toiled
for 10 many weary years, felt my eyes
blur with sudden tears for | knew | had
seen the coming Of the Lord, and that
the world do move, as Brother Jasper
SAYS.
Other things happened in the second
session Of the convention, of course. The
resolutions committees shut out MIR Reed
of Missouri. over which there was pretty
exciting souabble-you surely do get your
moneys worth at Democratic conven-
ton, where everybody feels privileged to
audibly agree or disagree with YOU from
the floor, and where YOU are either Kissed
or cheered for everything you do or say,
without any camoufaging of sentiment
either wav. And Senator Robinson of
Arkansas was elected permanent chairman
and made fine speech in a brand new
c,itaway coat and q silver voiced orators
manner. was an able defense of the
Democratic conduct of the war and plea
for the League Of Nations, and so another
KEYNOTE for the coming campaign.
But the public espousal of woman
suffrage by the whole Democratic party
was the important thing Of the day II
was one of the important things in all
history, and women everywhere may we'll
mark the twenty-ninth Of June, 1920,
with red stone.