The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-11-13
THIRD PARTY
MAY INVADE
1924 POLITICS
Sees Woman as Candidate in
Coming Election on Plat
form of Equal Rights"
MEN CAN'T STALL
Election of Woman Would
Not Result in a Top Heavy
Administration
CAN'T STALL
BY Harry B. Hunt
NEA Service Writer

dSH!HBton, NOV. lo.--h lHiiu
party in the field-with woman
candidate for president--in 1924, on
a platform Of equal rights as well
as equal suffrage for women!"
Such is the program suggested by
Mrs. Oliver II. p. Belmont, presi-
dent of the National Womens Par
ty, in case the masculine controlled
political organizations do not react
favorabiy to the equal rights amend
mont to be submitted to Congress
this winter.
Il expect to see the day." says
this vigorous suffrage leader, who
despite her seventy odd years has
the henna hair and pink cheeks that
20 with thirty, when Il woman will
be president of the United States.
And I'm not expecting to live for
over, either!' y
Bat whether q woman candidate
4o. president will be projected to
complicate next years political puz-
zle IL up to the men, Mrs. Belmont
declares.
Men Can't Stall
The Woman's Party, however, de-
mands from Congress and the presi
dent enactment and approval Of the
amendment wiping out legal in
CAPABILITIES between men and women
at the coming session.
If such amendment is refused and
if both parties "stall" about making
it clear-cut issue in the 1924 bat
tie, then a convention Of the National
Woman's Party, following hard on
the heels of the Republican and
Democratic conventions, with a
platform built by women for women
and with women Vas standard bear
ers, may be the result.
eff we put up woman candidate"
says Mrs. Belmont, "she will be of
such a high standard of ability and
intelligence that men as we'll as wo-
men will vote for her"
The election of woman presi-
dent, Mrs. Belmont believes, would
not result in a top-heavy feminine
administration. Men would be given
full recognition, according to their
ability. There would be no dis
{: elimination because of sex as, she
alleges, is now true.
"All the opposition now existing
between the sexes, politically" She
says, sis of opposition by man tt
woman, not of woman to man. Mar
has not yet admitted woman's equal
ity, although he has granted equa
suffrage. But recognition of full
equality, whether in politics, lega
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high office and for low, must sool
come
The course to be followed by tn
National Woman's Party will be dis
cussed in detail by members Of it
national, state and local committee
at, conference in Washington, Nov
II and Is.
Call On Coolidge
On Nov. II a delegation of womer
headed, by Maud Younger of Sa
Francisco, Alice Paul, Inez Hayne
Irwin and other national leader:
VIII call on President Coolidge an
submit plea for their equal right
amendment.
with the convenlng OF Congress
an intensive campaign for actio
will be begun, the famous suffrag
card-catalogue of congressman bein
brought to bear
Should this fail, the major polit
cal parties will be given the oppol
tunity to take definite stand i
their bid for the women's vote ne,
fall. That failing
Then look out for the Woman
Party. convention and woman car
didate for chief executive. And
hot campaign!
For the right to sit in the pres
Dental chair is not one of the "equ;
rights" for which women are no
fighting, Mrs. Belmont reminds u
! That right already has been granite
And some day before long, this OF
timistic, fighting suffragist mail
tains, some woman will sit there.
WOman's Parliament
When that day comes, she b.
lieves, the greatest step forward wi
< have been taken toward harmo nio,
international peace and goodwill.
rs. She even now is undertaking II
establishment of "Woman's Parli