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 1RK oRGAN1sT
ny ROBERT r. SMALL.

| CLEVELAND, Ohio June I2-The
ladies-tiod bless them-of the q. o.
p. are having their very first meeting
with the man members OF the Repub-
lican national committee Friday-that
is TO say, ii 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 q. o. p. ladies may point
! with all sorts Of pride and no longer
view with alarm.
Their first act wiz ,,,e TO elect Will
chairman % ne committee to conduct
| the presidential campaign. This 10
htting. for il was Mr.; Butter, acting
| idG. Eho blocked all efforts to side
frAck the emancipation procla ma tion
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
| d woman senator. a man governor
and woman governor and. in the
| last ANALYSIS. man President of the
| United States and a woman President
| They argued that II woman is en-
| titled to one Office just because she is
| 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
| 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.
Inasmuch as there is no color line"
| drawn in the republican party, there
| was some specula tion at first as to
| what complications might ensue in
| the south where IA state mi ght select
colored man as a member of the
! national committee. 1t was explain
| ed. however that this bridge already
| had been crossed For a number Of
| years Georgia has been represented
by colored man. Henry Lincoln
| Johnson. W hen the national commit
+! tee adopted the policy of permitting
bers of the committee without a vote.
| the committee from Georgia named a
! 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
nouncing that President Coolidge had
been meeting with his cabinet in
Washington. everybody in Cleveland
wondered what was meant by "cabi-
| net" There are ten members of Ny
Coolidge's official family EmctIy
eight of them have been in Cleveland
| this week. So il he really wanted to
| meet his ca binet. 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 cabinet members
for the President TO play around with
in Washington, to wit: Secretary OF
State Hughes and Secretary of Com
merce Hoover. Even MIR. Hoover was
vice presidential boom was one OF
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 a senator When he had turned
away the senator asked newspaper
man who was the stranger. When
told ii was Just cabinet member.
the senator remarked "Oh, yes, and
nonchalantly let il go at that.
Will H. Hays finally arrived at the
convention Wednesday evening. and
was among those present on the very
front row OF the stage. AS former
chairman of the national committee,
Mr.. Hays was entitled TO the privi-
leges of the convention and all the
free entertainment he desired He
appeared happy TO be just an on
locker this time. Four years ago he
was spreading the gospel of the u.
q. L. with all the vim and vigor OF Il
Billy Sunday plus a college cheer leader.
William MetcAlf. the blind organist
L. 49,, .,r1f o,y,A - kitt
today that he had never played 70
such unresponsive audiences in all -
his life. No snap to en- was tn.
way he expressed il. AT the first
evening session. which was decidedly
IA gala occasion TO the thousands Of
spectators. Mr.. Metcaif strutted all OF
his best stun. He put more jazz
through the pipes than any one ever
played Hail Hail. the Gangs All
Here" which sounded awfully solemr
coming out Of an organ. He also
played the Sidewalks OF New York
didn't get hand Dixie" found a
couple of southerners somewhere in
the galleries willing to give vent to
their appreciation. but the sEest of the
selections ran for Sweeney.
Great applause greeted the first an
nouncement by Permanent Chairman
Mondell that President Coolidge was
White House. This is the first time
in history that 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 Represents
tive Henry Allen Cooper OF Wisconsin
was reading the La Toilette platform
to the convention and moving its
adoption AS substitute for the ore
Mr. Coolidge himself had approved.
If he did continue to lsten-in. and
didnt get too much interference
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
it's convention work. When Mr..
Cooper arose to read the delegates or
all thS oates and territories. except
Wisconsin "out of the party he i'm
mediately won the respect and sym
pathy or 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 reference TO
the wisconsin delegation.
| There were "A few cat calls at Mr..
Cooper, but he soon caught on, and
whenever Phil Campbell OF Kansas
ton, tried to "shoo" Mr.. Cooper
closer to the radio microphones so
his stuff would get across, the crowds
mistook the move for ar attempt to
tell the speaker that his time was
up. The galleries Immediately de-
a sl@N l. l.