The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-27
WOMEN'S BLOC
 IS PARTY'S AIM IN COMING VOTE
Parties Discounted In Elf. fort To Further Equal
 Rights.
By MARTHA STEAMER, Copyright, 1924, For Age Herald. ]

WASHINGTON, July 26.--Women must be women first and republicans, democrats or progressives afterwards If they want the support of the national woman's party for Congress.
 f"women in Congress- The new slogan adopted by the woman's party, doesn't mean that the 'feminists will rally round any candidates who writes Miss" or Mrs" before her name and belongs to the hair-bobbing sex.
 The party of Alice Paul and Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, having come to the conclusion that Q women's bloc in Congress will help put through Con- ,gress it's equal rights amendment, has announced it's intention of trying to put a women's bloc in Congress. But women candidates must first and fore most stand for. women and the amend ment or look elsewhere for support.
 This is the statement of women's g party leaders, pending their conven- tion, August 17, IS, and 10 at Vest port, N. .sY., when they will gather in the cool Adirondacks for a confer ence and a pagaent in memory of one of their former, prominent members Inez Milholland.
 To Make Speeches
 The principal object of their meet ing will be to choose women congress sional candidates whom they will sup port during the coming campaign, Their support will jmean actual and active cRnvassing in candidates home states, including campaign speeches.
 And here are the qualHt Htcations they will demand in the candidates they choose:
 First, the apFosp peetiEe Congresswon- en must stand for women above party. They may Dc republicans, democrats, pFogressives, farmer-laborites- may be independent. Politics means nothing to the femjnists, except as politics af- fleets their. propqsed feminist amend ment. ss@f7
 Second, they must stand for all wom- en, not just a. group or, class of women.
 Of the five Congresswomen who have served in the. lower house since the Nineteenth amendment was adopted, only one has approached this women's ideal, according to the feminists. That one was Mrs. Winifred Mason Huck Rankin, they say, represented a little group of w6men-club members. Alice
 
 Robertson -Adidn't represent women at all, and didn't want to, they claim, saying that Miss Robertson wanted to forget heE ser and play the part of a man in Congress
 = No Objective
 Mra. Mae Nolan had no desire. to be in Congress and no definite objective as a congresswoinan. She was elected through the efforts of a group of her husbands friends, as a tribute to him after his death, and she brought to Washington no political or congression- al reeoFd-making ambitions, it was ex- plained. ~
 Mrs. Huck, the feminists say, made ar honest effort to, represent women according to their ideals. But Mrs. Huck also was elected to fill out an un- expired term, and when she tried to succeed herself, was defeated.
 The woman's party isn't fattering it. sci. that 1t can put over any consid- erable number of women candidates this fall, particularly as it's getting a late start Tn the race. But it expects to make a beginning, and in time it ex. poets to have a real womens bloc in Congress.