The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08
Prominent P art Women Are To Play In Both Of The
 National Conventions

whereas the republican women dele gates will have full votes- The basis of this mistake lies in the fact that the democratic national committee, in seek ing to encourage women voters to be- come delegates, recommended to the states that the delegates at large be increased from four to eight members, with one-half fvote each, the extra four members to be women. Every state which has elected it's democratic dele gates thus far has increased the size of it's delegation at large to eight mem bers to accommodate women voters; ex- cept in about three instances. where women candidates did not seek the hon or. While these four women have only . half vote each, the four men on the committee also have half vote each 90 their voting strength is equal"
 Democratic women also boast of the fact that they have been voting mem bers of the national c0mmittee on a fifty-fifty basis with men for the last four years. the democratic convention in 1920 having passed . resolution en- larging the membership of that com mittee to include one national commit teewOman as well as a national commit teemzn from each state. This was done largely through the foresight of Mrs. George Bass, then head of the Women's bureau, and it was lueky that she struck when the iron was hot. If this had not been done at . moment before the ratification of the suffrage amend ment. when politicians were still fear full of the women's vote, It is doubt full if the women could have had such a generous deal later, as it is gem a-av,~~-1AA A~k has not, 90 far at least, shown as much zeal for politics as was anticipated. With the rule in effect, however, the republican party cannot now offer anything less to the women. This is the Opiniop of Mrs Harriet Taylor Upton, who IS vice chairman of the national executive committee, and has been head of w0men's activities in the republican party for the last four years.
 -It IS certain that a rule will be put into effect at the republican national placing a woman as well as q man from each state on the repub- iean national committee" said Mrs. Upton
 Suffrage had not been granted at the time of the republican. national convention in 1920. Because of litiga- tsOn in some states and because it was not thought advisable to place women on the republican national committee when there was a possibility such privilege might have to be taken away from them in case of failure to ratify the eighteenth amendment, the equal representation rule was not passed at the 1920 convention
 "A woman. however, was named sec Ond vice chairman of the committee MFS. L. G. Woods of Pittsburg-and a woman was made assistant secretary- MrS- Christine Bradley South of Ken tueky. Seven women were elected to positions on the republican national ex- ecutive committee: Mrs. CoFinne Roosevelt Robinson of New York, Mrs. Medin McCOrmiek of Chicago, Mrs. Arthur l.. LiveEmOre of YOnkers, N. r., Mrs Manley' FOsseen of Minneapolis, Mrs. Jeanette A. Hyde of Salt Lake City, Mrs. Katherine Edson of San Francisco. Mrs. Christine Bradley South and Harriet Taylor Upton, vice chair man.
 President Harding on a number of occasions in the years 1921 and 1922 expressed himself in favor of the fifty fifty rule in representation on the national committee, and in June, 1923, John T. Adams, chairman of the na- tiOnal committee, requested each na- tiOnal committeeman to appoint a woman in his respective state to serve as associate member. This action was in accordance with the plan agreed upon by Hamilton F. Kean, national cOmmitteeman from New Jersey, and Harriet Taylor Upton
 At the meeting of the republican na- tiOnal committee in December a fifty fifty resolution introduced by Mir. Kean was unanimously carried. Twenty nine associate members were placed on the committee on platform and policies for the national convention. This is an indication of the place of the Fepub- iean women in the party. They have been regarded with no less esteem and no less consideration than if they were full members of the national commit tee"
 No outside organization of women will take a more prominent part at the conventions than the National League of Women Voters The league will have headquarters on the ground floor of the HOIlenden hotel, CIeve- land. and at the WaldOrf-AstOFia hotel during the democratic convention in New York city.