The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-23
WOMEN SEEK !. CHAlRMANSHIPS OF. COMMITTEES Would Direct Credentials And Permanent Organ {
 ization Bodies CONDUCT CAMPAIGN LIKE PROFESSIONALS Question Of Where To Park Husbands Of Dell
 egates Is Solved
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 NEW YORK, June 22.--Backed by 416 women delegates and alter mates, or almost one-fourth of the convention membership, democratic women leaders today inaugurated a determined fight to gain two major committee chairmanships. Tonight, after canvass of delegations, they said the outlook for success was bright.
 Mrs. Leroy Springs of Lancaster, S. C., and Mrs. Daniel O'Day of New York, are suggested for the credentials chairmanship. Both are prominent and either, it is said, will be acceptable to the majority of the women. The western woIn- an, still to be chosen, will be put forward for the permanent organi- zation chairmanship.
 Professional Campaigners
 Campaigning for the ehairmanship is being done in professional way. First, the women decided it would be poor policy, because of their inexperience in things political, to attempt to gain the chairmanship, so they passed them, not, however, without sending word to men leaders that they would not ask for the places and explaining why. Then under the leadership of Mrs. Emily Newell Blair of Joplin, Mo-, vice chair man of the national committee, they began canyassing delegations fo T pledges to elect members of the two committees whose chairmen they hope to name. If the women have their way, they also will have | woepan ma, 5ority nn each e1niAiittee. < < Women leaders base their claim for recognition on the fact that they have almost 40 per cent more representa- tion in this convention than they ever had before. In 1920 there were 29s women in the convention. There were fifteen in 1916 and only two, from Washington and Colorado, suffrage states, in 1912. Sixteen women made speeches in the 1920 convention. The number who will speak this year will be much larger, it is said.
 Avoid Plank Fights
 Other than the fight for chairman ships, there promises to be no outstand- ing feature of the women's activities. They are not fighting as a unit, for any plank, and, according to leaders, they are carefully avoiding the klan and prohibition blanks.
 The question of where to park hus- bands of women delegates while their wives are discharging their convention activities, once having been settled by furnishing the husbands stage tickets, most of the family problems in the women's sections are out of the pie ture. There was much concern, how ever, when it was found that the wom- en delegates and alternatcS had been invited to a dinner tomorrow night but that no official entertainment had been provided for their husbands. When this news reached the husbands, little agitation was shown, so it now appears that the husbands will have tomorrow night off.
 Husband And Wife Members
 Three delegations boast husband and wife as members. They are Mir. and Mrs. Leroy Springs of South Carolina, Mir, and Mrs. John McFadsean of Colo rado, and Mir. and Mrs. Henry W. Doc ley of Porto Rico.
 The only sstates which did not send women delegates are Louisiana and Florida. There was none originally on the South Dakota delegation, but some were added after the primary.
 Many professional and business wom- en are included in delegations. Women attorneys are most numerous. Miss Susan w. Fitzgerald of Massachusetts, and Mrs. Isabel Ahearn O'Neal of Rhode Island, are members of their respective state legislatures.
 Miss Florence Sterling of Texas, is the only woman campaign manager present. Miss Florence" as she is known far and wide by politicians in Texas, is trying to win the vice presi- dential nomination for Alvin Owsley, former commander of the American Le. zion.
 BObbed-haired women politicians are scarce. There are just two on the na- tional committee, Mrs. Florence G. Far ley of Wichita, Kan, and Mrs. Bernice $. Pyke O1 Cleveland.
 New York has the largest number of women in it's legation-forty-e eight. Missouri is second and Massachusetts, third.