Evening star., 1924-06-12
G. O. P. WOMEN READY
T0SHARE IN RIGHTS
Sit for First Time With Men in
National Committee Meet
ing Friday.
DELEGATES IRK 0RGANIST
Convention Hall Player Says Audi
ences Are Cold,
BY ROBERT r. SMALL.

CLEVELAND. Ohio. June 1e.-The
| ladies-God bless them-of the G. o.
+. are having their very first meeting
with the man members of the Repub-
lean national committee Friday-th2t
rs TO say, il is the first meeting as
equals. The Democratic women have
been pounding their Republican sis
ters Tor the past three or four years
because they had not won this com
plete recognition from their party.
Now the &. q. =. ladies may point
with all sorts Of prid. and no longer
| view with alarm.
Their first act will be to elect Will
liam NJ. Butler Of Massachusetts, as
chairman OF the committee 10 conduct
the presidential campaign. This IL
nttIng. for il was Mr.. Butler, acting
for and in behalf of President Cool
idge. who blocked all efforts to side
track the emancipation proclamation
Tor the women. No inconsiderable
number OF the old timers in the
convention and on the old national
committee were opposed to the idea
OF having two Representatives from,
every state. They insisted il was just
as logical TO have a man senator and
d woman senator. man governor
and woman governor. and, in the
last analysis, man President of the
United States and d woman President.
They argued that if woman is en-
d woman, she should have an equal
claim to every office in the land.
The various state delegations al
ready had met and elected the man
me bers of the new national com
mittee. when the convention adopted
the rule giving the women equal rep
! resentation. Then they had to meet
all over again to choose the ladies.
lnasmuch as there is no color line"
drawn in the Republican party, there
was some speculation at first as to
what complications might enSue in
the south where state light select
colored man as a member of the
national committee. II was explain
ed. however. that this bridge already
had been crossed. For d number of
years Georgia has been repre- Sented
by a oolored man. Henry Lincoln
Johnson. When the national commit
tee adopted the policy of permittine
women TO become associate" mem
| bers of the committee. without a vote.
| the committee from Georgia named
Colored woman TO the place. This
precedent apparently will be CON
tinued. now that the women have
full powers on the committee
When brief telegraphic dispatch
appeared in the Cleveland papers an
nouncins that Presiden Mt Coolidge had
been meeting with his cabinet in
! wondered what was meant by cab
net There are ten members of Mr..
| coolidge's official family Exactly
| eight of them have been in Cleveland
| this week So if ne really wanted 10
| meet his cabinet. the President snould
have come TO the oonvention city
| The cabineteers in Cleveland were:
Secretary Of the Treasury Mellon.
Dos -trrAsa
the Interior Work. Attorney General
! stone. Secretary of Labor Davis.
Secretary of War Weeks. Secretary
of the Navy Wilbur and Secretary OF
Agriculture Wallace
This left only two abinet members
for the President TO play around with
| in Washington, TO wit: Secretary Of
| State Hughes and Secretary of Com
| merce Hoover. Even Mr.. Hoover WAS
present in Cleveland in spirit. for his
| vice presidential boom WAS one Of
the very first to arrive.
The new Attorney General Mr.
stone. was recognized by compara-
| lively few of the lobby crowds On
one occasion he shook hands warmly
! with a senator When he had turned
away the senator asked a newspaper
| man who was the stranger. When
told il was Just cabinet member.
the senator remarked. oh, yes. ana
nonchalantly let il go at that.
Will H. Hays finally arrived al the
convention Wednesday evening. and
was among those present on the very
| front row OF the stage AS former
chairman of the national committee.
MIR. Hays was entitled TO the priyi-
leges of the convention and all the
free entertainment he desired. De
appeared happy to be just an on
was spreading the gospel of the 6.
q. T.. with all the vim and yisor OF a
Billy Sunday plus college cheer leader.
William Metcalf. the blind organist
OF the convention. complained bitterly
today that he had never played TO
such unreSponsive audiences in all -
his life. No snap to EN-. was the
way he expressed il. Al the first
evening session which was decidedly
a gala occasion to the thousa nds OF
spectators Mr.. Metcaf Strutted all OF
his best stuff He put more Jazz
through the pipes than any one ever
thought an organ "a pab of. He even
played Hail. Hail. the Gangs All
Here" which sounded awfully solemn
coming out OF an organ. He also
played the sidewalks OF New York. :
but that's a Democratic song. and IL
didn't get hand Dixie" found Il
couple of SouthernerS some " here in
the galleries willing to give vent 10
their appreciation. but the rest of the
selections ran for Sweeney"
Great applause greeted the first an :
nouncement by Permanent Chairma r
Mondell that President Coolidge was
listenine-in at his radio set at the
White House. This is the first time
in history that President. or any
body else for that matter could do
dered If the President stuck to the
earphones all the time Representa-
tive Henry Allen Cooper OF Wisconsin
was reading the La Toilette platform
10 the convention and moving Its
| adoption as substitute for the one
Mr.. Coolidge himself had approved.
If he did continue to listen-in. and
didn't get TOO much interference or
static. the President must have been
fairly startled by some OF the radical
proposals Perhaps he enjoyed the
laughter which greeted some OF the
proposed planks. and perhaps he ap-
proved OF the applause which was
given for the venerable Mr.. Cooper AT
! his conclusion.
The La Toilette party could not
have picked a better spokesman for
/ its convention work. When Mr..
Cooper arose TO read the delegates of
all th~ tstates and territories, except
! Wisconsin "out OF the party he i'm
m-diatelS won the respect and sym
pathy Of the galleries. and that was a
great Victroy for man in his diff
cult position. Already there had been
plenty of calls to throw 'em out"
every time there was a reference to
the wisconsin delegation.
There were few cat calls at Mr.
Cooper, but he soon caught on, and
whenever Phil Campbell OF Kansas
| the parlia mentarian of the conven
| ton, tried to "shoo" Mr.. Cooper
closer to the radio microphones SO
his stuff would get across, the crowds
mistook the move for a. attempt to