Evening star., 1924-06-12
G. O. P. WOMEN READY
TO SHARE IN RIGHTS
Sit for First Time With Men in
National Committee Meet
ing Friday.
DELEGATES IRK ORGANIST
Convention Hall Player Says Audi
ences Are Cold.
DELEGATES IRK ORGANIsT
ny ROBERT T.. SMALL.

| with the man members of the Repub-
lican national committee Friday-thxt
is TO say, il is the first meeting as
| equals. The Democratic women have
been pounding their Republican sis
| ters for the past three or four years
because they had not won this com
plete recognition from their party.
| Now the g. .. y. ladies may point
with all sorts of pride and no longer
view with alarm.
Their first act viii be to elect Will
! liam III. Butler of Massachusetts as
chairman of the committee TO conduct
the presidential campaign. This j.
hitting, for ii was Mr. Butler acting
| for arti in behalf of President Cool
| dg. ~ho blocked all efforts to side
tack the emancipation procla nation
| Ior the women No inconsiderable
convention and on the old national
committee were opposed to the idea
oil having two representatives from
| every state. They insisted it was just
as logical to have man senator and
! woman senator. a man governor
and woman governor. and, in the
/ last analysis. man President OF the
United States and woman President.
IheN argued that II a woman is en-
titled 10 one Office just because she is
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
members 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 10
| what complications might enSue in
! the south where state might select
| coIored man as a member of tn.
national committee. IL was explain
| ed. however. that this bridge ALREADY
| had been crossed. For a number of
| years Georgia has been represented
by "A colored man Henry Lincoln
| Johnson When the national commit
tee adopted the policy of perm ittinG
| 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
! fun powers on the committee.
! When brief telegraphic dispatch
| appeared in the Cleveland papers an
| nouncins that President Coolidge had
| been meeting with his cabinet in
| "ashin ston. everybody in Cleveland
| wondered what was meant by "cabi-
net There are ten members of Mr.
| coolidge's official family. E1ActIy
| eight of them have been in Cleveland
| this week SO if he really wanted In
| meet his ca abinet the President should
| have come to the convention city
| The cabineteers in Cleveland were.
| Secretary of the Treasury Mellon.
| Postmaster General New. Secretary of
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 cal binet members
| for the President to play around with
! in Washington, 10 wit: Secretary OF
/ State Hughes and Secretary of Com
| merce Hoover. Even MIR Hoover was
present in Cleveland in spirit. for his
vice presidential boom was one "f
| the very first to arrive.
: The new Attorney General Mr.
! stone was recognized by compare
| lively few of the lobby crowds. On
! one occasion he shook hands warmly
with senator When he had turned
away the senator asked a newspaper
| man who was the stranger. When
| told il was just a cabinet member,
| the senator remarked, "Oh, yes and
nonchalantly let il go al that
{ Will II. Hays finally arrived at the
! convention Wednesday evening. and
| was among those present on the very
chairman of the national committee,
! Mr.. Hays was entitled 10 the privi-
| leges of the convention and all the
| free entertainment he desired He
locker this time. Four wears ago he
| was spreading the gospel of the q.
! q. 4. With all the vim and visor OF a
| Billy Sunday plus a college cheer leader.
William Metcaf. the blind organist
of the convention. complained bitterly
today that he had never played 10
such unresponsive audiences in all -
his life. No snap to EN-. was tbs
! way he expressed it, At the first
evening session. which was decidedly
a gala occasion to the thouSa nds OF
| spectators. Mr.. Metcalf strutted all of
his best stuff. He put more jazz
through the pipes than any one ever
thought an organ capable 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 Democratic song, and il
couple of southerners somew 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 Chairman
Mondell that President Coolidge was
llistenins-in AT his radio set AT the
White House. This is the first time
in history that a President. or any
body else for that matter, could do
that sort OF thing. Every one won
dered il the President stuck to the
earphones all the time Representa-
tive Henry Allen Cooper of Wisconsin
was reading the La Toilette platform
to the convention and moving its
adoption as a substitute for the one
Mr.. Coolidge himself had approved.
If he did continue to listen-in. and
A., l.
static. the President must have been
fairly startled by some OF the radical
proposals. Perhaps he enjoyed the
| laughter which greeted some of tho
| proposed planks. and perhaps he ap
I proved of the applause which was
given for the venerable Mr.. Cooper at
! his conclusion.
The La Toilette party could not
have picked better spokesman for
its convention work. When Mr..
Cooper arose TO read the delegates of
all tho Srates and territories, except
Wisconsin 'out of the party he i'm
mediateiy won the respect and sym
pathy OF the galleries. and that was
great victroy for a man in his diff
plenty of calls to throw 'em out"
every time there was reference to
the wisconsin delegation.
There were few cat calls at Mr.
cooper, Dul ne soon cauSnt on, ana
| whenever Phil Campbell of Kansas
the parlia mentarian of the conven-
tion. tried to "shoo" Mr.. Cooper
closer to the radio microphones so
his stun would get across, the crowds
! mistook the move for a. ATTEMPT to
| tell the speaker, that his time Was
up. The galleries Immediately de-
manded that he be allowed to go on
Copyright. 1924
For the first time in its history. the