The Washington herald., 1921-02-18
Suffragists Get Invita-
tiOns to Merge With Big
Political Bodies.
LEADERS FAVOR. NO
CHANGE IN IDEALS
Session Today to Decide
Whether Organization
Will Disband.

VIII the National woman party
heed the appeals of the speakers
from five political parties who ad-
dressed the convention in the
Washington Hotel last night and
disband their organization.
or will they follow the advice
given yesterday by representatives,
OF the three governing boards of
the party and continue through a
new organization to fight for the
emancipation of women?
The question of the future plat
form and officers of the party will
bc voted on today.
FaVors Present Ideals.
Let US continue to be the stan
dard bearers in the movement for
the liberation of women, establish
solidarity and complete the eman-
cipation of our sex" said Mrs Ag-
mes Morey, of Boston, for the com
mittee of state chairmen.
Miss Mary Winsor of HaverfOrd,
Pa, Of the national advisory coun-
ell. also advocated continuing the
organization in u report that was
received with applause.
Don't let's get respectable! The
I upIift organizations have always
been ready to urge us to serve 9TH
[ crs and subordinate ourselves !
wish to say that before you can
serve, you must have power. 1 am
thoroughly sick of this uplife stuff. "
Mrs Donald r. Hooker, of Bal
timore, for the national executive
committee, urged that the organiza-
tion be continued to hbmanize poll
tics
Decide QuestIon Today.
This resolution common to the
reports of the three boards, will be
voted on today:
Resolved: That the women here
assembled now consecrate them
selves, the political freedom of wo-
men having been won ia the United
States. to see that this freedom is
not lost in any international gov
crnment that is established and TO
work for the removal of all the re-
naming forms of the subjection OF
women"
Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter
: Of the President, spoke at at after
noon session of the community cen
ter organization, fOreshadowing the
advice of political speakers by urg'
ing that the WOman's part dis
band
your ORGANIZATIONS" she said
are not nOnpartisan they are eX'
rIusiye. open only to women. YoU
are trying to form a Womans ma
chine. Work for the organization
~ the citizenship of the natior
grouped about the community cen
ter.
Defends Centers.
District of Columbia welfare
work has been handicapped D.
Senatorial dStation and suppress
sion" Miss Wilson charged
"One reason given in the Senate
for cutting our appropriation wa
that community Centers had beer
breeding unrest" she declared.
II know of nothing that CoulC
unhoId that statement, but eVer
1Tanting it, it is the business o
Congress to supervise the activitiel
~ sDeech Of those they represent
l. At the evening session representa-
tives Of five parties WED with on
aDotber in trying to convince tht
Lon1en voters that il was bette
for the women to join any part!
ratbrr than 20 have a party of theil
own
says Join G.. o. =.
"I would advise women agains
the attitude Of acting as women II
- class or party TO themselves il
attempting to hold the balance o.
T,,vcr." cOunseled Simeon Fess
bairman Of the Republican Ma
rfnnaI Congressional Committee
wbo advised them all to hop on t'
tho G. O. p. wagon. Il wish Il
yarn against almost inevitable con
Another good word was put in 70
parties by Miss Charl Williams, ma
ftnnal vice chairman Of the Demo
c-atic party. She was equally sur
mat parties were unavoidable AM
indispensable
Gave First Vote.
Miss Williams declared that wo
,gn's suffrage was given its frs
inpetus in the United States by tn
80 Of an all-DemOcratic Legislature
,,rbich in wyoming in 1859 gave it
women the right to vote.
l The Socialist party offers womel
program not for the restoration
e. tbe old. but for the building of
Usw world" declared Representa-
tiye-eleCt Meyer LONDON OIL Ne'
Sork in making the case for tn
Socialists.
Committee of FOrty-eight.
A. H. Hopkins, attacking al
,oIiticaI parties, asked the women
nCan you go to the parties unde
J rrbose management Of public af
sajrs these conditions have beel
L-oTqbt about? Surely not. Thei
racoTd is their own indictment, Cal
- turn to the Socialist or Farmer
I.hor parties, whose Class-consciou
n-ovrams go to the radical ex
-s1es? No. America is neithe
raJicaI nor class-conscious. Tn
Committee Of Forty-eight offers yol
Ms Jeannette Bennett fOllowet
,,itb a discussion of the problem o
women in politics from the point o
! yisV Of the Farmer-Labor party.
warning note was sounded tn
sSsmbled women at the close of tn
ysnIng session by Mrs. Izetta Jew
IN Brown, presiding officer. who de
cIared: -
~Ioin the various political parties
~ course, and work with them, bu
5on't let US abandon the ship tina