New-York tribune., 1920-05-31
% Named by Republicans
and 90 by Democrats
10 Have Voice in Select
ing the Party Candidates
II, 100000 Have Votes
National Organization in
Statement Gives Figures
Covering Entire Country


made public o-day, said the failure OF
the thirty-sixth state to ratify the
woman ufrage amendment to the
Federal Constitution would result in
giving the women of the country only
an insignificant" part IN the national
political conventions in June.
The statement pointed out that of
the 984 delegates to the Republican
gathering in Chicago only twenty-five
were women and of the 1,O92 delegates
to the Democratic convention in Chi
cagQ only siXty-nine were women.
These figures would not be changed
materially, the statement added, by the
settlement of the contests pending in
Vernon and West Virginia On the Re-
publican side and in Louisiana and
Florida on the Democratic size.
Two Per Cent Representation
After asserting that women were not
on an equal basis with men in party
management and that they had had
comparatively little share In selecting
delegates to the national conventions
the statement continues:
/
vote for the next President, whether
or not the Federal suffrage amendment
is ratified, are accorded only q per
cent representation in the choice of
/ the Repl blican nominee and only q 6
! per cent representation in the choice of
! the Democratic candidate, although
they represent approximately 35 per
cent Of the total number of men and
women eligible to vote for President
next November.
"Women are more largely repre-,
/ sented in the list Of alternates to the
| conventions, 1873 being accredited al
ternates to the Republican convention
and 1870 to the Democratic convention.
"Figures compiled by the Woman's S
party also indicate that women have
played a comparatively minor part m
/ the selection of delegates to :he two
conventions these facts were OBJ
tanned from the secretaries of state
and Republican and Democratic state
/ chairmen in the various states.)
"Delegates % the national conven-
tions are selected in sixteen states by
primaries and in thirty states by con
convention, in Alabama by Demo
cratic primary and Republican conven-
ton. OF the sixteen primaries, women
have taken or will take no part III
nine.
"They were admitted to full partici-
patton in only seven-California, Mon
tana, Nebraska, New York, Oregon,
or viii be. excluded in Florida, Massa-
chusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
West Virginia and Wisconsin. They
took no part in the Democratic pri-
lnaries of Alabama.
"Of the thirty states in which dele
gates We're selected by convention
women took no part in the convention
Of either party in nine states-Con-
Louisiana, South Carolina, Maryland,
Mississippi and Vermont. They took
no part in the Republican convention
IN Alabama, the Democratic convention
IN Virginia, the Democratic convention
IN Wyoming or the Republican conven-
tlon in Rhode Island.
In number of states, such as
Maine, women were allowed to attend.
but not to vote.
In most states where women were
present at conventions they were pres
cnt in small numbers, eXerting little in
fuence on the decision OF the conyen-
ton.
In the expression of popular prefer
ence for Presidential candidates
women have also been allowed com
/ paratVeIy little share. In twenty-one
/ st2tes, presidential preference prima-
RES are held, according to the official
4 HSt OF the Republican National Com
mlttee. Women have been admitted on
equal terms with men in only seven
/ California, Michigan. Montana. Ne
braska, Oregon, South Dakota and
cXas. They have been excluded from
fourteen, five of these being states
where women have won the right to
vote for President, but have not been
/ allowed a voice in choosing their
party's candidate
Women have not been admitted to
equality in party management.
NO women are members Of the Re
/ pubhcan National Committee. No
women are members c the Republican
National Executive Committee. No
women are on 4 Q subcommittee an
pointed last December to manage the
/ pre- convention activities of the party:
committees on organization, publicity
hnance and convention. On the poll
/ cle5 and platform committee OF III
members, only nineteen members are
women
There is a Republican National
! Council composed of twenty-four mem
hers, four of whom are women. There
is also women's division of the Re
puDilcaN Natonal committee headed
by Mrs. John G, South, chairman, which
works through or with Republican
W omen's Executive Committee, headed
by Miss Mary Garrett Hay. These
groups of women have no vote on the
Republican National Committee, e1cept
a. proxies for men.
"Ofiicials so far selected for the Chi
cago convention by the national com
mittee are men, with the exception of
three women assistant secretaries.
Senator Lodge, confirmed anti-sutfra-
gist, is temporary chairman Of the con-
vention.
an the Democratic party women
have been placed on the national ex-
ecutiye committee with q status equal
TO that of the men members. Four
teen women are now members of this
committee and three have been asked
to join, it is stated, with the intention
of bringing the total number of women
up 10 seventeen, the number of men on
the committee.
On the Democratic National Commit
tee women are as yet only associates,
having no direct vote except as proxies
for men. There are presumably forty
eight women members of this associate
national committee, but, matter Of
fact, there are only forty-two at the
present time Under the national com
mittee there Is womans bureau cor
responding 10 the Republican womens
division.