The Washington times., 1924-04-11
NEW GROUP
|SL|BERAL
|NPOL|CY
Delegates May Be Sent to
Progressive Convention at
Cleveland July 4.
BY JOHN T. LAMBERT,
Cosmopolitan News Service.


Throwing off the complacency
which has been a handicap to
them since they first got the vote,
the women of the country have at
last begun to organize themselves
along progressive lines.
The Women's Committee for Po-
litical Action is formed here under
the leadership of some Of the most
prominent women politically in the
country. 1t has all the earmarks
Of third party, although its or
ganizers dispute that. It has the
name and political psychology of
the Committee for Progressive
Political Action, which is today
organizing the liberals of the
country, welding together the far
mer and labor parties Of the West,
and which will meet in Cleveland
on July a to nominate a candidate
for President, who will be Senator
Robert M. La Toilette, if he will
accept.
Plan!1s i'm Platform.
1t gives the. women a chance to
get into movement which is lib.
eral and independent and which
processes to be able to cut away
from the conventional old moorings
which it claims have held the two
ancient parties since Appomattox.
The new organization declares for
public ownership of natural re-
sources, including TIE oil and for
est lands which have been laid
waste by the manipulations of re-
cent Cabinet officers.
1t asserts in favor of public own.
ersh1p of the railroads, railways and
telephone and telegraph lines in
order to gain public control of all
avenues of transportation and COM
munication in order that they NAV
De removed as sources of bribery in
public life.
The new movement also declares
Itself to be in favor of the consti.
tutional rights of free speech and
assembly. full and fair trials in the
courts, the right of the workers to
organize for mutual protection and
tor restriction of the powers of the
courts, which leaders assert in re-
cent years have developed the habit
OF running away with both the laws
and the Constitution.
Harriet Stanton Blatch, IONA
Gale, Freda Kirchwey, Mrs. Ere.
mont Older, Mrs. Charles Edward
Russell and Mrs. John Jay White
are few of the organizers of this
movement, their presence indicating
that the women have got enough
political training already to enable
them to throw off the conventions
and not to be afraid that someone
will cry Red" at them for Joining
a liberal surge
Mrs. Sally Fl. Burch, of MARYLAND
says the purpose is not to organize
q third party but to arouse women
to political activity and to interest
them in the progressive movement
under whatever name it may de-
yelop nationally and in the various
States"
The liberal movement among the
men has always been predicated
upon desire to avoid the forma
ton ola new party, but so hope
less do they feel both the Republi
can and Democratic parties to be
under present management that
they have abandoned all hope Of
Icing able to work within then
this year.
JOlting Old Leaders.
Therefore, no politician will be
surprised if the new group sends q
substantial and enthusiastic repre-
sentation to join in the Cleveland
convention with the Farmer Labor
Party, Committee for Progressive
Political Action, Progressive Party
and the railroad brotherhoods OF
such other national organizations az
may choose to send delegates there
Every accession to the third party
cause throws another jolt of feal
Into the big wigs Of the old parties
If La Toilette carries a dozen
of the northwestern States, the
Democrats expect the election will
be thrown into Congress and that
neither President Coolidge nor any
other Republican can be elected.
The Republicans profess to feel
that if La Toilette runs he will
pull away the liberal votes in the
cities from the Democrats and thus
enable Republican success without
the northwestern group.
strives"
Clare Sheridan, the noted Eng.
fish sculptress and author writer,
wrote:
"Stinnes has penetrated to east
Prussia; he owns a paper factory
In Koenigsberg, a motor car com.
pany, and his steamship lines call
at the port.
Hated by Working People.
SHINES is a man who has never
been known to give anything to
charity. Nobody knows what
SHINES is worth or what he does
with his fortune. Shines name is